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Re: Farewell

From: Craig Weatherhill <craig~at~agantavas.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:02:25 +0100
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My condolences, too, to Mr Miller's family. He is indeed a great loss
and I think we all know how much he has contributed to Vernian
studies. Powes yn cres, Walter, ha meur ras dhis (Rest in peace,
Walter, and thank you).

Craig


On 23 Efn 2010, at 09:37, Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd wrote:

> I'm sorry to hear this. Although I never had the pleasure to meet
> him personally, I am grateful for all the good work he did for
> Verne, through his publications, his work on Verniana's editorial
> board and of course on this forum. My sincere condolances to
> Walter's family.
>
> Garmt.
>
> On 23 June 2010 02:15, Brian Taves <briantaves1879~at~yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>

--
Craig Weatherhill

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