The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 29, July 10, 2005, Article 1

EDITOR'S CORNER

Among our recent subscribers are Mr Chellappa Chandra and
Michael Rae. Welcome aboard! We now have 769 subscribers.

At the suggestion of Nick Graver, I will now publish our subscriber
count with each issue. I'll also take this opportunity to expand
the section to include occasional comments about the issue or
general topics of interest. Thus, the "Subscriber Update" is now
the "Editor's Corner." Sorry I couldn't think of a more original
title, but I'm open to suggestions.

World events sometimes intrude on numismatics. Following
the September 11, 2001 attacks in the U.S., we published
a number of items of how numismatists in New York were
affected. How have this week's bomb attacks in London
affected our friends there? Please write to let us know -
we hope all is well.

As an editor I relish the ability of e-mail to quickly get the
word out on important events. We rarely stray from the
weekly E-Sylum publishing schedule, but occasionally we
publish an interim issue. This week brought an interim issue
with news of the death of John J. Ford, Jr., bibliophile and
numismatist extraordinaire who was a longtime friend of NBS.
As Dave Bowers notes, Ford was not an uncontroversial
figure, but as the catalogues of his library attest, his love for
numismatic literature was both immense and contagious.
One of the true greats of our hobby is gone, but hopefully
some of his passion lives on in all of us.

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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