Posted by Iain Hobbs on 11/16/99 from 194.82.168.3:
Has anybody noticed that despite AR saying that Nancy Blackett is his favourite character and we know that Nancy and Peggy are based on real People (See Summer Mixed Moss Vol 3 Number 3 Esperance and the Crossley Girls). He did not give any credit to the real "Blacketts" in any of his books. Also from the TARS members that I have heard from, there was no attempt to contact them to invite them to the official launch of TARS. The Curator of Abbot Hall tells me that AR's executors have a stash of documents on SA that they are blocking from being made public knowledge. The only area that I know of where AR's known documents fall down is on the Blackett side of the creation of SA and the sequels. You only have to look in the text for the factual descriptions of People, Places and Boats to see that. Yet we all know the Altounyans got a Credit in SA, so what happened?