[lit-ideas] Re: Clearing Matters Up, with Whittier and Literature In


On Nov 5, 2009, at 4:02 PM, carol kirschenbaum wrote:
I think I found another branch of the Ritchie clan to which you're not related: Ritchie's Jewelers, at Cedar Hills Crossing. On the other hand, one of your children may be selling off the family jewels... 

Carol K.


Yes, that would be Harry.

On the far right here,
http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=harry +ritchie&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=R2nzSriqCIS2swP0jr0M&sa=X&oi=image_re sult_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CB4QsAQwBA
You're correct, that one's also not a relative, *and* he didn't review "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga in "The Daily Mail," or write "The Last Pink Bits." 

http://www.hodder.co.uk/authors/author.aspx?AuthorID=954
If you search lit-ideas files you'll find an exercise I did a little while back: pulling all of the books by Ritchies from my local library and attempting to read them. Depending on whether my process passed muster, this may possibly have been art. I'll ask.
Family jewels? No we placed them with the honours of Scotland years ago, keeping back just a few bits and bobs, ruby-encrusted crowns... that sort of thing. Just sentiment really:
http://scottishhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/ additions_to_the_honours_of_scotland 

David Ritchie,
The Ritchie "Museuam,"
Upper Mucking, Fife

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