Susan - I agree wholeheartedly about the early date too. I would love a copy of the papers. I've sent you my email address via the SJL member name if that still works for you. (Let me know if it doesn't).

Steve - yes the book looks really interesting but at £115 new and about half that second-hand it's too rich for me too. As you say you can get some of it from the preview. (It was also quoted in Child's Unfinished Masterpiece, which was what made me check it out for the Parsons refs: footnote on p80 of CUM leading to Groom...demonstrates that the text was not the result of 'bad editing' (or even 'literary forgery'), but rather social and cultural processes, changing conceptions of authorship and composition, material interventions in correspondence and lent books, and a series of bibliographical accidents from the fireplace to the print shop, talking about Reliques of course. It makes you want to read more).

Mick