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Re: Farewell

From: Dennis Kytasaari <djk~at~epguides.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:16:26 -0500
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My condolences to his wife Mary, daughter Naomi and the rest of Walter's
family.

 

 

 

From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On Behalf Of
Brian Taves
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 7:16 PM
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

 
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