From the researcher; MAA survey

A note from the researcher for the MAA "daily lives" survey undertaken last year:

Minstrel,

It's good to hear from you. I'm glad you've got in touch. Please do feel free to circulate this email to whoever else would like to know about what's happening.

The book is progressing well and should be published in the summer. I am currently writing the penultimate chapter. Kevin and colleagues set up the MAA website for me to communicate the findings and stay in touch but unfortunately I have not been able to make that happen because I did not get web-editor permissions and can't post anything. I haven't visited that website for months.

I am concerned about Kevin as no-one seems to have heard from him for a long while, which is not like him at all. If anyone is in touch with Kevin I would be grateful if they would pass on my greetings. I hope all is okay with him. I am grateful for his unfailing courtesy which helped this project so much. If possible, I would like to check some details with him before the book goes to print.

I am on research leave until Christmas, so I intend that the book will be completed and passed to the publishers by that time. There was a huge amount of detailed data which people kindly gave me, plus an enormous amount of background literature to review and other material (films, mainly) for me to familiarise myself with, so as you can imagine it has been a long slow process, but I hope people will find it thorough and thought-provoking even where they may profoundly disagree with some of my analysis and conclusions.

Do stay in touch if you'd like to.

With best wishes,
[the researcher]

All I (Minstrel) know is contained in the preceeding.