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Thanks, Ibon Sedai! I'll enjoy reading through the materials from your class! :)

Glad you had a good time with it, Ilissa Sedai! And yes, at least we've got what little I could remember, and we have what I learned from the Special Collections staff. Part of me is a bit bummed I didn't have an excuse to get on the road to drive to Charleston for an archive dive, but perhaps...

That is an excellent idea, Alora Gaidin! Alas, that board didn't properly exist on the World-Wide Web as far as I am aware. It was part of AOL's walled garden system, and one didn't navigate to it using what we now consider modern URLs. It was less like an ISP and more like a huge BBS that one...

That frustrated/confused me, too, Yurjan Gaidin. I guess it wasn't part of the collection. I would have thought that he might have kept such things, but I suppose he didn't. That or the estate didn't include them in the collection even if he did keep them. At least we know now what sorts of...

An (especially prompt) update! From the special collections folks: I'll update here again when they get back to me. I hope the restrictions permit me to share the contents with everyone if they're able to find them! ETA: I received their post-search reply! Alas, they do not have the letter...

The website linked above indicates that it's at the donor's request. My guess is that since the collection contains notes, correspondence, and unpublished work, it's to ensure that the estate has had plenty of time to use or publish any of that as they see fit before essentially opening it wide...

Incidentally, for those of you who might be following along, I have had no luck so far in scouring my backups and paper boxes. However, it seems that the College of Charleston Library's James O. Rigney, Jr. Collection is the posthumous home of Jordan's papers, which include correspondence and...

I feel this one! I have definitely been guilty of throwing out things I did not think I'd need or want, but later did. These days, if I have any doubts at all, I move stuff to a "holding tank" area for a while to see if my attitude about it changes, and I scan and archive the files even if I...

Oof, I feel this. I cleaned out a lot of paper clutter some years back. It was very tough for me to turn loose of the originals (writing notes, support documentation for my thesis research, etc.), as I am a Keep All The Things sort of person, but at the time I had access to a really good...

High school me was very, very upset to have lost it, yeah. :( Adult me, who is even more devastated to have lost such a useful primary source, sees how I could have prevented the loss, in hindsight, but I can't bring myself to be too hard on kid-me. Losing that letter, a letter I got from...

In my reread of TEotW I was reminded of Narg, the only trolloc, so far as I am aware, to ever talk in the common tongue. As we all know, he also speaks a line in the Trolloc language: "Vlja daeg roghda." In 1995 or 1996, I wrote to Robert Jordan to ask him a whole pile of questions, mostly...