Greetings, gentle reader! Glad to see you once again. So the crazy news here is that I finished the letter H despite everything! (Or perhaps because of everything, honestly.) I’m frankly sort of amazed it happened, though. Perhaps it’s because there weren’t that many distinct entries, although there were some very big ones–Harvard’s libraries, the Harry Ransom Center, Indiana University (the Herman B. Wells Library led into the Lilly). Overall I’m pretty happy about my work so far.
Things I learned from H:
- I have very strong feelings about catalogs that do not let you filter out microfiche from physical books.
- I’m absolutely going to need fellowships to get through the sheer mass of works at Harvard and at UT-Austin.
- There was apparently a Russian translation of Lennox’s play The Sister in 1788? I’ve only found it in microfiche in one place so far, but I’m suspending my “no microforms” rule for this one because I can’t find it anywhere else.
So “I” is really short, while “J” is a bit on the longer side due to the sheer number of high profile donors with “J” first names. It’s not bad, though. Coult September be the month with two letters? Stay tuned and find out!
Number of libraries confirmed: 241
Number of libraries entered into the database: 2
Number of extant copies confirmed: 893
Lennox Bibliography Project 
Dear Michelle,
Wonderful, news! Congratulations!! 893 extant copies is HUGE already. Impressive.
Yes, I was so shocked to find that Russian translation of The Sister—as I am sure you see in my bibliography in the bio. I have wanted to lay my eyes on it, too!! It is such a funny play!!!
And good luck on I and J 😊
Rock on!
Susan
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