Subject: Re: Tripp stuff
From: Kay price <[email-masked]>
To: Jim Kirchstein <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:52:58 -0600

Good that you told me to get the telescope out of there. It is safely tucked away. My nephew is putting some photos of it out on the Internet and say look what my eccentric aunt has. He thinks it will make the rounds and some people will inquire if it is for sale. It would be interesting to see if there is any real monetary value to it. 

Karen and Jim are coming here on Tuesday and we are going to Galena for lunch. Then to Hotel Julien in Dubuque for an overnight. We did that last year too. The hotel history includes visits by Lincoln, Mark Twain, and Al Capone. They did a $34 million dollar renovation and the rich dark wood is so inviting. We sit in front of the fireplace and love it. We get big suites for $99 with $20 coupon for dinner in their nice restaurant. It is a nice change in the middle of Feb. 

Kay

On Feb 24, 2013, at 7:10 AM, "Jim Kirchstein" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Tracey asked about the telescope. too, at WW12 when we were eating at Leystras.
> I'll send Sandy something, too, after I recover from paying the property taxes.
> Will have carpal tunnel surgery Apr 1....can hardly wait.  Doing both hands at the same time.
> I have the Hyde work done finally, in two large envelopes to get to you (includes three discs)...also made camera ready copies of the newsletters for your files.
>  
> Later
> 
> From: Jack Berndt
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 4:47 PM
> To: Cuca
> Subject: Tripp stuff
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> I talked to Fred Kippley (Locktite Security) recently & he will install the security camera you brought in - possibly next week. That will give us two cams - one pointing directly at the Bradford Bison display case & the other (smaller) one aimed at door, covering the entrance into main room. Would you recommend that one day we put a couple in the upstairs room? Might be worthwhile since I can't always be upstairs when we have visitors in the Ochsner Gallery.
> 
> A guy from out-of-state stopped at Tripp a couple weeks ago & we were chatting about Derleth & esp. Lovecraft, the latter of whom I know very little. He was quite knowledgeable about HPL, way behind my level of knowledge (ah, or interest!), mentioning among other things a telescope that had belonged to him. I said I remembered hearing about it or possibly reading about it in an old newsletter & thought it'd been donated to the ADS, but wasn't certain. I told this guy about the Derleth room at the Sauk Library & that perhaps the telescope was kept there? Is this correct? I also said that the public can have access to the Derleth room anytime the library is Open, right? And that you can buy Derleth books at the Sauk library vs. online only per the website? Anyway, just like to get my facts straight when it comes to discussing authors of the books for sale at museum. Been getting a lot of questions lately re: Erhart Mueller & his "Sumpter books" series. Hardly know anything about him or people/places in his works.    
> 
> Have had enough winter, am ready for June! 
>