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Re: Farewell

From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:26:01 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Indeed that is a great shame. I was going to continue with Arronax's blog
last weekend but have suffered my own loss which has slightly put me off my
stride (namely our pet cat who we adopted as a kitten in 1990) and although
not on the scale of this can sympathise with both Naomi and the rest of the
forum.
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  From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il]On Behalf Of
Brian Taves
  Sent: 23 June 2010 1:16 am
  To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il
  Subject: Farewell


        I have just had a call from Walter James Miller's daughter, Naomi,
that he passed away last night.

        His 1965 edition of 20,000 Leagues was responsible for bringing me
to an intellectual understanding of Verne, and his personal kindness was no
less meaningful.

        It is seldom given to us to actually meet someone whose name we have
long looked up to, but I had that pleasure during a trip east in 1990. NYU
gave me his phone number, and we had lunch the next day. I was fortunate to
be able to count him as a friend for the next 20 years.

        My only wish was that he had lived to know that the NAJVS had
already decided to dedicate to him our third volume in the Palik Series, The
Count of Chanteleine. And we are about to begin checking page proofs of the
first volume, for which he provided an introduction.

        So his legacy, his inspiration, and his scholarship live on.


        Brian Taves
Received on Wed 23 Jun 2010 - 03:26:07 IDT

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