{"id":2913,"date":"2017-06-23T23:58:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T22:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2017-06-23T23:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T22:58:35","slug":"arnold-bennett-and-h-g-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2017\/06\/23\/arnold-bennett-and-h-g-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Bennett and H.G. Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 260-page book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/copac.jisc.ac.uk\/search?title=Arnold%20Bennett%20and%20H.G.%20Wells%3A%20a%20record%20of%20a%20personal%20and%20a%20literary%20friendship&amp;rn=2\">Arnold Bennett and H.G. Wells: a record of a personal and a literary friendship<\/a><\/em> (1960, Hart-Davis \/ University of Illinois Press) is sadly not available in any library in the Potteries.  It&#8217;s not on the Staffordshire or Keele catalogues, and Stoke Local Archives is listing it as &#8220;0, reservations unavailable&#8221; which seems to imply &#8220;stolen or lost&#8221;.  According to Copac the nearest copy is down at Birmingham University.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m pleased to see it&#8217;s actually online at Archive.org for free: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/arnoldbennetthgw00benn\">Arnold Bennett and H. G. Wells: a record of a personal and a literary friendship<\/a><\/em>.  It&#8217;s been scanned and placed online by the University of Florida.  Good for them.  There&#8217;s even a Kindle ereader edition.  The letters are annotated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/bennett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/bennett.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2930\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the book has been placed &#8220;Out of copyright&#8221;, here are the front portrait pictures, extracted by me at their highest resolution from the raw scans package.  Feel free to re-use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/arnoldbennetthgw00benn_orig_0008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/arnoldbennetthgw00benn_orig_0008.jpg?w=183\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2944\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 260-page book Arnold Bennett and H.G. Wells: a record of a personal and a literary friendship (1960, Hart-Davis \/ University of Illinois Press) is sadly not available in any library in the Potteries. It&#8217;s not on the Staffordshire or Keele catalogues, and Stoke Local Archives is listing it as &#8220;0, reservations unavailable&#8221; which seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}