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Re: List of his friends... (Project-name wanted)

From: wbutcher <wbutcher~at~netvigator.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:26:51 +0800
To: "'Jules Verne Forum'" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Dear Peter,

That's great! are you limiting it to those he probably met or all real
people connected with Verne...? What about his relatives? (a real minefield)


How about something like "Jules Verne's Networks: His Friends and
Acquaintances" or Who's Who in Verne: People he Knew/in his Life?

Do send me a list of problems in JVDB. There are misprints, internal
contradictions and pure mistakes, I know. But a new revised edition is out
in paperback in April, so I hope to eliminate many of them.

A reminder: do contact Volker since he has, I believe, a list with dates of
birth.

If you would like to send me privately the first drafts, I'd be pleased to
offer advice, before you throw it open to general consumption...

Bill
wbutcher~at~netvigator.com
http://home.netvigator.com/~wbutcher/
1/F, 46A, Lung Mei Village, Taipo, Hong Kong

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On Behalf Of
Peter Harold
Sent: 19 October 2006 16:01
To: Jules Verne Forum
Subject: Re: List of his friends... (Project-name wanted)

Dear friends!

Just a short report...
I am thankful to Mr Butchers permission to me for
using his recent biography about Jules Verne as a
source for my list of... well, we could say "In the
circle around Jules Verne" (is it "Liason du Jules
Verne in French?). You know what I mean.

This means I have spent some evenings re-reading Bills
book, and listing all the names that comes through.
The information is name, occupation/title,
birth/death, time of event when the person was
included JV's life), and a short note that describes
the person.

This project have rised several problem to me. First
of all, there is **** a lot of new information that
contradicts earlier English biographies about Jules
Verne. So my own "book" about Verne have to be edited
a little bit. I am very happy I didn't printed my
stuff earlier...

The second problem, which I hope will be less
difficult, is to with a humble letter send Bill a
message of the errors I find in his text. Well, it
wouldn't be many pages, but at least my suggestions of
correction does prove I have read his book :-)

The third problem is how my project with this list
should continue. Monsieur Dekiss sent a courriel
earlier this month and promised that the Centre are
willing to help. I sure know my limits as a
researcher, so I guess I am just the starter of the
list. So far as the list is done know, I feel that it
could be well worth to spend energy to complete it
with more information. And I feel it neccesary. For
reasons of style and space, Bill haven't included
complete information about every person who figure in
his book. I hope he have more (first hand-)
information that was left over when the biography was
written. Other schoolars input is also thankful.

As I have done now with the project, it is clearly a
"cut and paste" (with my pen) from Bills book (I try
to not cut too much, but I am tempted), but the list
creates new questions about people around Jules Verne.

I will continue to take names from Bill's book, and
later read through the other biographies that I have
access to (they are not too many). The list could be
published for the members of this Forum and the
Centre, and we could have a discussion about what is
true or fake in it.

To me, I would like to have a proper name of this
project. Any ideas?

Best regards
Peter Harold



--- wbutcher <wbutcher~at~netvigator.com> skrev:

> Bonjour.
> > This would be an excellent idea, although the jury
> is still out on some of
> them.
Received on Thu 19 Oct 2006 - 10:27:24 IST

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