From:peter@newton.otago.ac.nz (Peter Dowden)
Subject:Signalling to Mars 7.1

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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 15:22:00 -0700
From: faunt@netcom.com (Doug Faunt N6TQS 510-655-8604)
To: peter@physics.otago.ac.nz
CC: billtchr@aol.com
Subject: Re: Signalling to Mars 7: the GA/Pin Mill & the East Coast S&A books

My reading of that is that the GA said something like "If Robert could
see how his daughters have turned out, he would be quite
disappointed", which would have been very upsetting to the Amazon's
mother.

Godine only has US rights.  Apparently, the British editions of books
that Godine publishes cannot be imported commercially, but the books
he hasn't published can be imported.  So, for example, the Stanford
University Bookstore has Godine editions of the first few books, and
British editions of the later books.  There's an importer in Santa
Cruz who imports them, or you can order them by telephone and credit
card from the Children's Bookshop in Toronto.  I was unable to find
any on my trip to Canada last month, although I didn't make a strong
effort.  I did visit the Lake Windermere in the Canadian Rockies.

The Peter Hunt -Approaching Arthur Ransome- was printed in the US
as part of Twayne's English Authors Series with the title -Arthur
Ransome-.  The other books are not available in the US, although they
can be ordered from any number of bookshops in England, including from
Ransome Books, which is really just John Cowen in clever disguise.

If you are going to be in England at the end of May, be advised that
the TARS AGM is near Portsmouth this year.  I have been to Pin Mill,
by bicycle, in the rain, but haven't made it to Secret Water yet.
This year, with any luck, I'll make it to Lewis, where Ransome fished,
and where -Great Northern?- is set.  BTW, the Candian dollar coin has
a Great Northern Diver on it (over here, they are common, and called
"loons" (the coin is commonly called a loonie)).

I think a virtual tour of the Hereschoff Museum sounds interesting.
We have the SF Maritime Museum here, which has TARS-like activities,
including a monthly chantey sing.

73, and TARS forever,
doug



Ah yes, she did approve of Bob but not her own niece. Hmmm, that's a curly one. I'm 
not old & wise enough to continue this discussion. 
By the way, I decided the Turner family were Yorkshire-born industrial revolution 
nouveau-riche  cotton-mill owners, and Beckfoot was their summer palace: maybe the 
family firm collapsed when James Turner sr and Mrs Turner (and Bob Blackett!) died 
in a mill explosion; Maria has the Harrogate townhouse, Molly and Jim the Lake house 
and the bankers got the mills and family estate. That accounts for the mixture of 
gentry and hard-up the Blacketts seem to exhibit. Maria of course holds the famous 
Turner Diamonds, that's why they have to be nice to her.
;-)

And who was the person whose tact was displayed by Nancy [GA's letter at the end of 
P&M]?

Peter