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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A line to thank people for their kind words to me
privately and about me on the List.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please can we now leave it there: I find it all
difficult to bear at a personally difficult time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dr Baron had every right to be angry; he has
accepted my apology and I believe knows that when I made my mistake I did so in
good faith, as stated; without desire to "scoop" him. Of course, I should have
asked, and none of this would have happened. So I apologise for that as
well.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The point was made somewhere about whether we bell
historians would or would not put our researches 'on line'. Well, in many ways,
we do; and there have been some significant contributions even if they have not
been on this List. And since it has been mentioned, the Kent Bells list has been
developed for anyone to see at considerable expense of time and no doubt of this
worlds goods. It is a labour of Love, not only because that is its editor's
surname. Other counties / associations have done the same. The
proto-National Bells Register again is available to all. Recent postings have
rightly extolled John Baldwin's work, and he in turn has acknowledged that of
his contributors. And, so far as The Church Bells of the Channel Islands is
concerned, I hope it does make a profit: not because I will benefit in any way,
but if it does, the Winchester & Portsmouth Diocesan Association of Ringers
Bells Restoration Fund gets ever penny. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please let's have no more recriminations, and no
kickings off lists. Thank you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DLC</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>