{"id":16795,"date":"2010-09-20T00:08:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T04:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=16795"},"modified":"2010-09-20T00:08:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T04:08:23","slug":"frye-welch-correspondence-1968-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/09\/20\/frye-welch-correspondence-1968-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye-Welch Correspondence, 1968-1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/signature-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16799\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/signature-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/signature-2.jpg 386w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/signature-2-300x73.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have posted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/library\/\" target=\"_blank\">library<\/a> letters written by Frye to Jane Welch (later Widdicombe) at the beginning of her long tenure as his devoted secretary: she began working for Frye in 1968. Frye\u2019s travels during these three years took him to Ireland and London; Berkeley; Bellagio, Italy; Islamabad, Pakistan; and Merton College, Oxford.\u00a0 During this time he was working on <em>The Critical Path<\/em>, which, he tells Jane Welch in one of his letters from Merton College, \u201cis the first book since the <em>Anatomy of Criticism<\/em> that I\u2019ve actually written, i.e., that hasn\u2019t been a series of public lectures.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a very important book.\u00a0 I probably won\u2019t live to see it recognized as such, but you may\u201d (no. 16). \u00a0Then there are the usual Frye quips, such as \u201cI\u2019m not all that anxious to read the <em>Blake Newsletter<\/em>, and I never believe anything I see in such things anyway, as a matter of principle\u201d (no. 11), and \u201cA big research library is wasted on me, too bad I never learned to read, and I\u2019m getting itchy feet again\u201d (no. 17).<\/p>\n<p>You can read them all <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/frye-welch-correspondence\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have posted in the library letters written by Frye to Jane Welch (later Widdicombe) at the beginning of her long tenure as his devoted secretary: she began working for Frye in 1968. 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