7 Sep 2024 There is only one copy of Faithful Rigmor and Her Grandmother that survives (known to me). It is in an envelope in Cambridge University Library. Several years ago, I inquired as to how much it would cost to copy the volume and was horrified by a price tag of over five hundred pounds. At that point Stephen Lees very kindly read the book on my behalf and communicated its contents. Recently I was back at the UL for another project and I took twenty minutes to order up the novel and photograph it with my mobile. I’m not very good at these things and the reader may curse me. In desperation, it is possible to read every word (with apologies to some slightly blurred pages) of this book and with regrets for the one page I somehow missed, 51. Next time I’m in Cambridge I’ll add the missing page and replace some of the blurred ones, but for now something is better than nothing. 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