News from the Peirce Edition Project Newsletters
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It has been several years since the Peirce Edition
Project constituency of which you, dear readers, are
valued members, has been apprised of developments
and achievements in one of the world’s principal centers
devoted to Peirce scholarship. We used to prepare
a very well received newsletter that was sent to a
considerable group of people; it provided a great deal
of information about the progress of the edition, questions
and answers to specific scholarly problems, director’s
reports, brief essays on intriguing documents,
and book notices. That newsletter played an important
role in building up a supportive constituency and
establishing solid relationships that greatly benefited
the Project’s developmental plans. Publication of that newsletter, however, never achieved any sort of regularity,
and it was discontinued after eight issues that
ran from March 1994 to spring 2001 (they can still be
accessed on the Project’s website). The last newsletter
was thus sent out eight years ago. Since then, the Director
sent occasionally fundraising letters with brief
progress reports, but nothing approaching the production
scale of the now-defunct weighty document. The
reason for its demise is straightforward: its production
required a fair amount of time and the ever-increasing
accumulation of editors’ workload and university
commitments kept forcing us to postpone the lowerpriority
task of publishing the newsletter until we realized
we would never be able to afford resuming it.
Still, providing news about the edition remains essential,
and the present letter is designed to do just
that, without attempting to replicate the ambitious
goals of the bygone newsletter. This letter is divided
into a series of rubrics, each dealing with specific aspects
of the Project’s organization, plan, staffing,
work in progress, and achievements. Those rubrics
and others will be regularly updated in future installments
of this letter, which will be sent out at least
once a year. An electronic version of it is accessible
on the Project’s website. |
