Hello friends.
I have received the following update from Frances McDowall at the OLd Stile Press. I append her response. She mentions that a copy is being prepared by the binders and that the portfolio will be ready in a week. I hope that this delay is acceptable. (It will give me time to think about the next gift for Heath and Michelle.) I am sending the amount due once she has determined the total.
Dear Thomas
Your generosity is considerable - the film must indeed have moved you deeply (we look forward to seeing it, but it hasn't yet reached our distant part of Wales!! - though, obviously, we have heard a good deal about it).
The Landscape Within is a marvellous collection of mountainous images by Bert Isaac - you will have seen the description of it on our website - but have you also seen that if you click on Artists Prints and then on Bert Isaac you get nearly all of the prints shown separately. In the 'book' you get a large slipcase with a portfolio and a book. The portfolio has all the prints individually wrapped in paper printed with the title and a little about it. The book reveals this artist's way of working to make his prints
- the medium he chooses and how it relates to the subject chosen . . . he ranges over the profound impression upon him of great printmakers through the history of art and then to the effect upon him of the landscape around him and within him. It is a moving account of how close to infinity he feels when attempting to convey the power of a landscape in an image.
It is also described in our Bibliography - with a little anecdote about the artist and his wife.
At the more practical level - we can await your letter because just at present I have no copies of the book in our store, the binders are working on it so we would have to wait a week or so to send it off anyway. Sorry, but we can't deal with cards or Paypal as yet - but if you can send a dollar cheque/check when I send you an invoice, I hope that will be all right for you. I will need to discover the cost of postage (do you yet know where you would want it sent to - California has a tax levy and perhaps other states too . . I would need to let you know that when I post it off).
Lots of questions - but we are moved by your desire to redress the affront by the Oscars!
It looks as though it would be around £405 or $710 - but I can be more exact when the parcel is sent.
withour best wishes
Frances
Here is my latest response.
Thank you Frances,
I shall send you the cheque once you have determined the total amount for the portfolio plus postage. As is with the last order (the Sonnets, if you may recall :-)), could I request that you send the portfolio immediately after you receive the copy from the binders? I promise you that the dollar cheque will be mailed to you as soon as you determine the exact amount.
I will send you the letter (which explains a bit why I had chosen this portfolio) sometime today. I am a moderator at the Brokeback Mountain Forum (ennisjack.com -- cited in Annie Proulx's website) and I will also send best wishes from many of the site's members along with this personal offering.
Thank you. Please let me know the final amount as soon as you determine the total. I shall send you the letter and the contact address for Mr. Gyllenhaal shortly.
Many thanks.
Thomas
As I will be sending the letter by today, I would expect that not everyone will have a chance to PM me on time. Hence, I shall include best wishes from all members of ennisjack.com.
