Editor's Notes

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Editor's Notes Early American Literature now has a website: http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/ EAL/ EAL thanks Frances Frame and Kevin Kyzer for their work in designing and constructing the site.We invite readers to make suggestions about its improvement. Readers wishing to link the site to their course or personal webpage have permission to do so. If you have links you wish listed, contact the webmaster at the address supplied on the homepage. EAL is reviving the Roundtable section of the journal instituted by Philip Gura a decade ago. Lorayne Carroll of the University of Southern Maine has been asked to moderate a series of Roundtable presentations devoted to the pedagogy of early American literary studies. These will appear in every other issue. Professor Sandra Gustafson, book review editor of EAL, will be chairing the program of the American Antiquarian Society's first conference sponsored by the History of the Book Program, "Histories of Print,Manuscripts, and Performance in America," 10–12 June 2005 at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. The conference will consist of approximately four panels chosen from the individual proposals submitted; presentations by invited speakers Carla Mulford, Jeffrey Richards, David Shields, and David Waldstreicher; a keynote address by Sandra M. Gustafson (delivered as the annual James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture); and an AAS collections-based needs and opportunities session. The essays presented at the conference will be considered for inclusion in a collection to be edited by Sandra Gustafson. Sargent Bush, Jr., John Bascom Professor of American Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, died on 8 October 2003. Educated at [End Page 213] Princeton and the University of Iowa, he was one of the great expositors of early New England's intellectual history. While his fame as a scholar was established by his work as an interpreter and editor of the theological and political writings of the first generation of New England divines, particularly Thomas Hooker and John Cotton, and the antinomian John Wheelwright, he wrote on a broad range of authors and subjects, including Longfellow, Twain, and Cather. He was the greatest expert on early American epistolary writings, a remarkably talented textual editor capable of bringing order to the notoriously difficult manuscript letters of John Cotton, and an intellectual historian who invariably assumed a transatlantic frame of reference. He had an especially deep understanding of Reformed Christian pneumatics, the dynamic co-operation of psyche and the soul. He collaborated in writing the history of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the institution that trained many of the early New England Puritans. He also edited the journal of Sarah Kemble Knight. At the time of his death he was working on a study of Robert Keayne's notes on the sermons of John Cotton in the 1640s. A personal yet professional man, Sarge Bush will be sorely missed by the community of Early Americanists. "A great tree has fallen in Zion." [End Page 214] Copyright © 2004 The University of North Carolina Press