Last Thursday, 16 July 2026, the print edition of The Collected Letters of Charles Ricketts arrived on the doorsteps of the editors in The Hague and in London, almost simultaneously.
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| The Collected Letters of Charles Ricketts (Brill, 2026) |
The online edition had been published in May, and the printed volumes were ready somewhere in July, they reached us by courier last week. For a description see the website of Brill at The Collected Letters of Charles Ricketts (3 Vols).
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| The Collected Letters of Charles Ricketts (Brill, 2026) |
Some superfluous statistics:Number of pages: 2273 (each volume also contains xxxix pages of introductory matter)
Number of letters: 2202 (numbered 1-2197, including 5 addenda: 438i, 594i, 806i, 1923i, 2119i)
To make up for the last fact, John Aplin and I have published Four Fugitive Letters. To Cecil French, Martin Birnbaum, Helen Travers Smith & Isabelle Augusta Gregory (At the Paulton, June 2026), a lovely booklet of which some copies remain. [To order a copy, please mail me at the address given in the sidebar. See also blog 776 Published: Four Fugitive Letters.]
Number of indexes: 3
Weight: 1535 grams (volume I), 1517 grams (volume II), 1476 grams (volume III)
Number of missing letters: 4
