<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
panose-1:2 5 6 4 5 5 5 2 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Earwig Factory";
panose-1:2 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Garamond;
panose-1:2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8 3;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";
color:windowtext;
font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Apologies for jumping the gun. I know many of you are involved in writing scope notes for genre headings, but my colleagues and I have been debating the use of the term “funeral sermons,” which I believe has yet to come under review. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Our debate stems from a number of sermons (so identified in the title) on the death of Daniel Webster. These sermons were not delivered at Webster’s actual funeral. Would “funeral sermons” still be an appropriate term for these items?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Any thoughts would be welcome.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Thanks in advance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Best,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Will </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW</span></b><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Earwig Factory""></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Will Evans</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Chief Rare Materials Catalog Librarian</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Library of the Boston Athenaeum</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">10 1/2 Beacon Street</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Boston, MA 02108</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Tel: 617-227-0270 ext. 224</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Fax: 617-227-5266 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/">www.bostonathenaeum.org</a></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>