Oops. I failed to mention the obit is from The Guardian. I couldn't locate online the NYT one. In a message dated 10/15/2004 1:56:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, Jlsperanza writes: "He seemed to love being surrounded by tourists and became something of an institution at Sissinghurst, where he was known to lean out of his study window to invite visiting parties of Americans for tea." -- not fellow countrypersons? Odd. And how would he know they were _Americans_ and, say, not Canadians? (Geary should know this). Cheers, JL ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html