# PANDORA written in the Seventies *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 21 May 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *21 May 2002, 04:03* In his latest letter to me, GW indicates PANDORA BY HOLLY HOLLANDER was completed in July 1979. Confirms John Clute's supposition. --Nick Gevers. --- ### Jeff Prucher *21 May 2002, 05:03 · follows Nicholas Gevers* > --- Nicholas Gevers wrote: > In his latest letter to me, GW indicates PANDORA BY > HOLLY HOLLANDER was completed in July 1979. Confirms > John Clute's supposition. This suggests to me that the forward to PbHH was written later than the rest of the novel. In it, Wolfe writes (as Pandora): "This just one that took a long time to sell. (Except in France, so _vive la France!_....)" Was Pandora published originally in France, in any form? I couldn't find any evidence in the usual sources, and I didn't find anything from a quick google search. It seems an odd thing to write if it's not true, but it wouldn't be the first time one of Wolfe's narrator's was less than truthful. -Jeff Prucher ---