Goodbye to a friend.(From the Editor)(Editorial)

It was a sad irony that our friend and devoted Oxfordian, James Fitzgerald, passed from this world on April 27th, the day of the Oxford Day Banquet in Cambridge, an event at which he had been a regular for years, just as he had been an Oxfordian and a member of the Shakespeare Oxford Society for years (in fact, Jim's name appears on membership lists dating back to the 1960s ... an old-timer indeed!).

Readers of our newsletter undoubtedly recognize Jim's name from his frequent contributions to the newsletter, the last of which--his letter challenging some of Roger Stritmatter's Latin translations--was published in our last issue. The letter was typical in …