# This Craft of Verse: gift idea for Gene Wolfe? *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 04 May 2008* > 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. --- ### johnfrance at aol.com *04 May 2008, 07:25* Hi- I was wondering if anyone on this list knows if Gene Wolfe has read "This Craft of Verse (The Charles Elliot Norton Lectures)" which is a transcription of 6 lectures that Jorge Luis Borges gave at Harvard back in 1967-1968? Mr. Wolfe has given me a lot of reading pleasure over the years and I wanted to send him something by way of thanks, (in addition to simply buying his books.)? The lectures did not come into print until about 2000. They are remarkable for the range of material Borges referred to in various languages, from memory. Regards, John France Plan your next roadtrip with MapQuest.com: America's #1 Mapping Site. --- ### patri10629 at wowway.com *05 May 2008, 15:23 · follows johnfrance at aol.com* John, I have it from the horse's mouth that Gene Wolfe has "never heard of this." I feel certain he would be most appreciative of such a gift. Patrick O'leary > Today's Topics: > > 1. This Craft of Verse: gift idea for Gene Wolfe? > (johnfrance at aol.com) > Hi- > > I was wondering if anyone on this list knows if Gene Wolfe has read > "This Craft of Verse (The Charles Elliot Norton Lectures)" which is > a transcription of 6 lectures that Jorge Luis Borges gave at Harvard > back in 1967-1968? > > Mr. Wolfe has given me a lot of reading pleasure over the years and > I wanted to send him something by way of thanks, (in addition to > simply buying his books.)? > > The lectures did not come into print until about 2000. They are > remarkable for the range of material Borges referred to in various > languages, from memory. > > Regards, > > John France --- ### Eric Ortlund *05 May 2008, 15:24 · in reply to patri10629 at wowway.com* Patrick - I've wanted to write Mr. Wolfe for some time: do you have a snail-mail address for him? I promise not to abuse it! Eric Ortlund -----Original Message----- From: urth-bounces at lists.urth.net [mailto:urth-bounces at lists.urth.net] On Behalf Of patri10629 at wowway.com Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:23 AM To: urth at lists.urth.net Subject: (urth) This Craft of Verse: gift idea for Gene Wolfe? [mx][spf] John, I have it from the horse's mouth that Gene Wolfe has "never heard of this." I feel certain he would be most appreciative of such a gift. Patrick O'leary > Today's Topics: > > 1. This Craft of Verse: gift idea for Gene Wolfe? > (johnfrance at aol.com) > Hi- > > I was wondering if anyone on this list knows if Gene Wolfe has read > "This Craft of Verse (The Charles Elliot Norton Lectures)" which is a > transcription of 6 lectures that Jorge Luis Borges gave at Harvard > back in 1967-1968? > > Mr. Wolfe has given me a lot of reading pleasure over the years and I > wanted to send him something by way of thanks, (in addition to simply > buying his books.)? > > The lectures did not come into print until about 2000. They are > remarkable for the range of material Borges referred to in various > languages, from memory. > > Regards, > > John France ---