Editing WG145

==Whispering Gallery Issue 145 / WG145 ==

[[File:WG145.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Front Cover, Whispering Gallery 145]]

===Date and Pages===
*December 2019, 52 A4 Pages (including Covers)

===Editor===
*[[Suzanne McNeill]]

==Front Cover==
* Merchants in a camel caravan. Miniature from the ‘Maqam’ or ‘Assembly’ of Yahya ibn Mahmud a—Wasiti, Iraq, 1237, folio 31r
Credit: Biblioteque nationale de France. Department des manuscrits. Arabe 5847

==Inside Front Cover==
* [[Calligraphy | Calligraphy]]. [[Monica Murray]] [[SOTR 25]] Nicholas leaves Trebizond to meet the trading caravans on their way to Erzerum.

==Inside Back Cover==
* Left side: Illustrations of two paintings by Dorothy Dunnett bought at auction by Sandra Hall: 'Still life of African masks with Chrysanthemum and silver dish' and 'Portrait of a young man'

* Right side: Silver dirham; Arab (Abbasid), minted at Baghdad, 945–46. Image ©National Museums Scotland. Money arrived from Thorfinn, with a gold arm-band weighing sixteen ounces. A third of the coins were silver pennies from Cologne, and among the rest there were three from Baghdad. [[KH1.7]] Deborah Conway Read explains that it was not unusual for coins from Baghad to appear and be used as currency across Europe, England and up to the Orkneys.

==Back Cover==
* Adoration of the Maji, about 1495-1505, Andrea Mantegna, 85.PA,417 Credit: The J. Paul Geddy Museum, Los Angeles
* Silver coin from Baghdad- [[Deborah Conway Read]]
* Two Pictures by Dorothy Dunnett - [[Sandra Hall]]

==Articles==
* [[A View from the Wynds]] - [[Suzanne McNeill]]
* [[The Chairman’s Column]] - [[Simon Hedges]]
* [[Trustees' Notice Board]] -  [[Julia Hart]], [[Deborah Conway Read]]
* Frontispiece and Summary for donation of ‘Game of Kings’ - Sarah Mumford
* Members’ Page
* HWA/DDS Short Story Competition Awards Evening - [[Betty Moxon]]
* The Daisy Fisher - 2019 HWA/DDS Short Story Competition Winner -  Kate Jewell
* [[Tribute Book]] - The [[Wizard Lady of Branxholm]] - Judy Steel
* [[A Dunnett Lexicon]] - At the Horn, Chambletted/Camlet - Carole Richardson
* The [[Silk Road]] - [[Deborah Conway Read]]
* [[Royal Arms of Scotland]] - 3. The Scottish Crown Jewels - Charles J. Burnett
* [[Recording the House of Niccolo]] - John Banks
* [[It’s a nice thought.]] Sailing anywhere in the world, with a box of paints and one’s family... - [[NLS Dunnett Archive Contents | The Dunnett Archive]] - Transcription of speech given c. 1968 [[Dorothy Dunnett]]. Also see [[Talks and Interviews by Dorothy Dunnett]]
* New Joiners
* Dunnett Shout-out -  Post series depression - Charlotte Latvala
* [[Marthe’s Secret]] - Salatheel
* [[Wrapping up Dunnett]] - Pt4/16. Exploring the jacket designs and cover art. The Coming of Age of Francis Crawford-Designs for the 1990s - Kate Jewell
* [[In the Bleak Midwinter]] - Janet Kebbell
* [[Talking Point]] The names Dorothy Dunnett gives her fictional characters. See letter contributions
* [[Who-Dunnett?]] When Lymond learns his father’s name from Rene Jourda, why does it evoke such a strong response? What is the question he doesn’t ask?
* [[That’s Relevant!]] - Church of St Olave - Margaret Scott]], Tantallon Castle - Pat Sibley, Lumphanan - Barbara Milner.
* [[A Letter from Dorothy Dunnett]] to Audrey Beech (aka Audrey Barwood) 8th Oct 1976. DD talks about the success of her latest novel, [[Nanny Bird]] and plans for the next in the series; plans for the novel which came to be ''King Hereafter''

==Letters==
===Australia===
*Sarsha McEntee - Talking Point

===Canada===
*Bel Bachman - Talking Point

===England===
* Sandra Hall
* Mia Kachidze - Talking Point

===Germany===
* K.C. Julius - Talking Point

===New Zealand===
* Jo Heaton

===Wales===
* Mike Brain - Talking Point

==Forthcoming Events==
* Dunnett Weekend Friday 24th-Sunday 26th April 2020
* Oxford Day 13 June 2020, Wolfson College

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