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Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 2 Oct 1991 23:30:04 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0353. Wednesday, 2 Oct 1991.
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 91 20:08:59 CDT (245 lines)
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Gutenberg Newsletter: September 30, 1991
The Project Gutenberg Newsletter__September 30, 1991__Our 21st Year
This month's release___The Song of Hiawatha___[hisong.txt or .zip].
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The Federalist Papers have been updated with the first 40% and last
40% having been cleaned up and marginated (by a non-scholar, namely
myself, but they are all there, and 80% are easily readable. Still
needs margins worked out for the middle 20%.
A new copy of Peter Pan is on the way, but. . .
Our new edition of Peter Pan was deleted along with its entire dir,
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Peter Pan has been withdrawn from distribution until we have solved
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should only take a week from the time it is received, so you should
Peter Pan on our list again very quickly.**One of our Paradise Lost
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file should be out by end of the year, still searching for **Joseph
Raben** who was responsible for the other edition back in 1975. We
need information on which to base our copyright analysis.
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growing, thanks to the assistance of Kevin Gilmore and his approach
to building of our hardware. We should have additional storage for
previous works to be re-released, and eventually to post all future
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