[1] From: AL SHOAF <rashoaf@clas.ufl.edu> (28)
Subject: EXEMPLARIA Preprint of "PIERS PLOWMAN and the Sublime"
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Subject: Longman Web Site
[3] From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org> (284)
Subject: April Project Gutenberg Newsletter
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Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 13:33:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: AL SHOAF <rashoaf@clas.ufl.edu>
Subject: EXEMPLARIA Preprint of "PIERS PLOWMAN and the Sublime"
The Editors of EXEMPLARIA are pleased to announce the electronic
preprint of "PIERS PLOWMAN and the Sublime" by Murray J. Evans (The
University of Winnipeg) which is currently scheduled to appear in EXEMPLARIA
9.2 (October 1997). The preprint is accessible at URL
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria
and will remain on-line through the summer. There is a "mailto" link on the
sub-page for those who wish to communicate with Professor Evans.
Recent server and drive changes have caused some minor glitches for
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We are gratified by the response to our preprint activity, and we
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Thank you,
Al Shoaf
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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 22:18:08 -0800
From: "H-clc (Barbara Diederichs)" <bdiederi@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Longman Web Site
From: AWLongman@aol.com [SMTP:AWLongman@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 1997 11:43 AM
Addison-Wesley Longman, a leading publisher of higher-education texts, is
soliciting suggestions for a Web site to support its freshman
composition, technical writing, literature, and developmental english
titles.
If you are an academic professional who uses the web and have ideas about
resources or content that would be helpful for the site to offer, please
send your thoughts via email to <AW Longman@aol.com>.
Thank you in advance,
The New Media Group
Addison-Wesley Longman
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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 11:28:15 -0500 (EST)
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
Subject: April Project Gutenberg Newsletter
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Mar 1997 Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Jerome K. Jerome2[jjidlxxx.xxx] 849
Mar 1997 The Black Arrow, by Robert Louis Stevenson [RLS37][blckaxxx.xxx] 848
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