# A Blount remark *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Jun 1998* > 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. --- ### Damien Broderick *03 Jun 1998, 10:26* I raised the matter of Blount and Australia with my learned friend John Bangsund who scoured his CD-ROMss, his reference library and his commodious mind for possible clews. He found this: > Edward Blount was a relatively unimportant person (as far as > Australia was concerned) in the Colonial Office in the > 1830s. He was in favor of [*gasp*] Catholic Emancipation. A bias, no doubt, sure to gain favor among people named Gene Wolfe, but otherwise perhaps not all that salient to *Fifth Head*. Damien Broderick ---