Got email and a letter from Joanna yesterday. First, she got the family tree. I was having problems opening my EPS file, so I could only send her a print-out. I wanted her to have the computer file so she'd have something to work with. But she said she didn't need the original file & no need for me to wrestle further with Illustrator. Which was a relief.
Second, regarding the use of Valerie's spread "Victoria's Chalice" in the book, everything is fine except that they want Valerie to be credited in the acknowledgements and the first page of her chapter, not in the table of contents. I'm assuming this will be OK with Valerie and have sent it on to her for approval.
Third, Joanna mentioned again the "notes on sources." Specifically the fact that I have information about most of the cards, some of it quite interesting, but no information at all about some of the cards. The problem is that if I got an image from Dover clip art, then I have no idea where it came from originally. Unfortunately, a lot of the trumps are that way because I did them first, and I was relying more heavily on Dover at the time.
I suggested that I could write to Dover and ask them for information about their source material, and Joanna agreed that I should do that. So I did. I think it's a longshot, to be honest -- it doesn't seem all that likely that they'd have this kind of information at hand, or give it to me if they did. But it can't hurt to ask.
It seems to me that if I can get in contact with the editors of the specific books, I might have a better shot at this information. The books I used were all edited by a couple of people: Jim Harter and Carol Belanger Grafton. So I'm searching for them both on the Internet. I don't even know if they're still alive, but if they are and they have email, I'll find them.
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