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NEWSLETTER
TODD COLLECTION
As our readers know, Ruthven Todd died in Galilea, Mallorca, 11 October 1978. According to Robert
Latona of The American School in Mallorca, Todd’s collection of books, prints, and photos related to Blake
will be going to the University of Leeds, where they will form the nucleus of a new collection. Leeds will
also receive Todd’s papers on Blake, including manuscript material that was to have been included in the
revised life of Blake by Gilchrist.
RUTHVEN TODD MEMOIR
There is a feature essay on Ruthven Todd by Julian Symons—poet, crime-story writer, critic,
editor—in the April/May issue of London Magazine.
REVIEWS
Janet M. Todd, ed. A Wollstonecraft Anthology.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977. $16.50.
(...) And if he read
Wollstonecraft on the French Revolution, he would surely have been
struck—as Janet Todd points out that John Adams and Percy Bysshe
Shelley were—by its idea of mental evolution (“the image of God
implanted in our nature is now more rapidly expanding”), her
dialectical view of history and politics, and her ability both to deplore
and to analyze the causes of revolutionary violence.
Todd’s Wollstonecraft Anthology performs the
valuable service of making selections available from all the author’s
works, some of which exist in print only in expensive facsimile editions.
*A Query from Ruthven Todd
Ruthven Todd is now gathering material for a final working over of his
edition of Gilchrist’s biography of Blake. (...) Contributors will be credited in print for their assistance.
Todd’s address is Ca’n Bieló, Galilea,
Mallorca, Spain.
A Tentative Note on the Economics of The Canterbury
Pilgrims
by
Ruthven
Todd
The printing of intaglio plates was never a driving impulse with William Blake,
despite The Book of Ahania and The Book of
Los.
MINUTE PARTICULARS
“POISONOUS BLUES,” AND OTHER PIGMENTS
By
Ruthven
Todd
NOTE: Several years ago, in Blake Newsletter 28, we published a short piece by
Robert M. (...) Soon we received a letter from Ruthven Todd giving us his preliminary
thoughts on the matter and promising, as Ruthven’s letters always did, further thoughts in publishable form.
(...) It had a
more symbolical than actual pigmentary meaning by the end of the 18th Century.
[Todd’s typescript leaves off here.]
RUTHVEN TODD’S BLAKE PAPERS AT LEEDS
G. E. BENTLEY,
JR.
In 1978, the books and papers of Ruthven Campbell Todd relating to William Blake were given
by his son Dr. F. C. C. Todd to the Brotherton Library of the University of Leeds. (...) Graham Robertson
(1907), Todd’s copy marked on the endpaper and flyleaves “Working Copy No 1
Ruthven Todd 1940 Annotated and
29 de mayo de 1966.
Dodsley]). Henry John
Todd’s ed. of Comus in 1798 follows the
1645 version, although like Warton’s it updates the spelling,
punctuation, and capitalization (A Mask . . . (...) Bristow, et
al.]; rpt. as part of Todd’s edn. of
Milton’s Poetical Works in 1801, 1809,
1826, etc. The passages I cite, which do not vary significantly from
version to version, come from Todd’s 1798 ed. Because Todd
reproduces the 1645 version, his line numbers are the same as those in
the more accessible modern ed. by Merritt Y.
Article
Attribution and Reproduction: Death Pursuing the Soul through the Avenues of Life
Volume 45 · Issue 2 (Fall 2011)
Mabel Zahn, Sessler’s employee of many years who oversaw prints and
drawings, told me that she had been corresponding with Ruthven Todd
about the work, and that Todd had in turn told Butlin about it. (...) Todd’s letter begins with the forceful statement that “I find
that Martin Butlin agrees with me that Mrs. (...) Zahn included a photocopy of Todd’s letter with her letter to me of 19 Aug. 1971.
3.
I assume that Keynes is simply mistaken on this point. Todd, in his
essay on the twentieth-century restrikes (see note 13), repeats Keynes’s figure for the
c. 1892 printing and claims that “170 sets” were printed in 1838 (p. 4 in the last
version of Todd’s essay). (...) I take Todd’s “170” to be another error.
Bentley provides answers to the questions surrounding the 1838 press runs in his
Blake Books of 1977. (...) In his essays, Todd is forthrightly critical of the c. 1954 impressions but praises the
1968 restrikes.