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Terry Meyers <[log in to unmask]>
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	Let me second Jon's endorsement of George Morrow's extraordinary  
works, which, I suspect, might be discounted somewhat being self- 
published.   George is a deft writer and a probing scholar; the  
pamphlets are thoroughly professional.   His work on Samuel Henley  
was useful to my own recent piece in Notes and Queries on Henley's  
sordid reputation among scholars of English literature and his  
supposed "dark beginnings" in Virginia while professor of moral  
philosophy at William and Mary.


On Nov 9, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Jon Kukla wrote:
>
> For several years now I've been enjoying Morrow's delightful essays  
> in a
> series of short books entitled Williamsburg in Character ...
> http://www.williamsburgincharacter.com/
>
> Morrow does a terrific job of portraying the dramatic interplay of
> personalities in revolutionary Virginia -- whether its the clash of  
> legal
> styles between Henry and Jefferson
> http://www.williamsburgincharacter.com/catalog/GreatestLawyer.aspx
>
> or, most recently (in *We Must Fight*), the personal animus between  
> Patrick
> Henry and Lord Dunmore that shaped the confrontations in 1775 that  
> included
> the Powder Magazine Raid, Henry's march on Williamsburg, Dunmore's  
> flight,
> and the collapse of royal government......
> http://www.williamsburgincharacter.com/catalog/WeMustFight.aspx
>


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Terry L. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, College of William  
and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia  23187				757-221-3932

		http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/

		http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html
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        Have we got a college?  Have we got a football team?....  
Well, we can't afford both.   Tomorrow we start tearing down the  
college.
             															 --Groucho Marx, in "Horse Feathers."





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