The Art and Letters of Robert Frost

在最后一个学年（2022-2023），我继续从事弗罗斯特信件项目。我完成了大约230封书信的抄录，这些信件将成为《罗伯特·弗罗斯特书信》（1937-1947）的第四卷。（第1~3卷已由哈佛大学出版社出版。）为了与我的美国合作编辑一起工作，我曾两次前往美国（一次是在2022年8月，第二次是在2023年3月初）。通过共同努力，我们能够整理出许多与日期有关的问题，这些信件弗罗斯特没有注明日期（而且没有邮戳的信封保存下来）。我们还对几百封信进行了语音验证。在2022年10月、11月和12月期间，我与我在日本的共同编辑（亨利·阿特莫尔）一起工作，对我自己的所有转录进行语音验证。在2022年的整个过程中，我还审查了弗罗斯特信件的所有以前和现在已经过时的版本，以确保我们获得了每一封信件的新手稿。我还重新阅读了最著名的诗人传记的相关部分，以确保我们抓住了其中引用的所有信件，但没有收集到适当版本的“信件”。在我找到这些信件的地方，我试图获得它们的手稿副本，以便重新誊写。

During the last academic year (2022-2023), I continued work on the Frost Letters Project. I completed transcriptions of some 230 letters in the date range for what will be volume four of The Letters of Robert Frost (1937-1947). (Volumes 1~3 have already been published by Harvard University Press.) I made two trips to the US to work with my American co-editors (one in August 2022, the second in early March 2023). Working together, we were able to sort out a number of problems to do with dating letters which Frost did not date (and for which no postmarked envelope survives). We also voice-verified transcriptions of several hundred letters. During October, November, and December 2022, I worked with my co-editor here in Japan (Henry Atmore), voice-verifying all of my own transcriptions. Over the course of 2022 I also reviewed all previous, and now outdated, editions of Frost’s letters, to assure that we had obtained fresh copies of manuscripts for every one of them. I also re-read the relevant parts of the most notable biographies of the poet to insure that we had caught all letters quoted therein but not collected in a proper edition of "letters." And where I located such letters, I sought to obtain copies of them in manuscript for fresh transcription.