Dear List members, I have done a grave injustice to a lady who has earned her impeccable reputation. My critisism of Rosemary Bachelor's work was not simply "ill-advised." It was much worse. My only prayer now is that this apology will travel as fast as my previous mail. Yesterday, I was able to get a copy of Volume One of the Rice Family book by Rosemary Bachelor. If I had been working on my Rice line instead of my New Haven, Connecticut families, I would have known that the quality of this lady's work is up there with Donald Jacobus work. Her work is as meticulous and careful as anything one could want. Furthermore, since she is doing a SURNAME study, not a ONE LINE study, quite naturally the Welsh house of Rhys is included, but NO WHERE does she connect this house with Deacon Edmund Rice, immigrant to Sudbury, Massachusetts, as others have, and as I thought she had. In addition, if I were confident of my work on my Rice Line, I would be enthusiastic about submitting it for inclusion in her book about New York Rice families. My work on that line is only in its preliminary stages though, otherwise, I would have known about Ms Bachelor's work. The only name which deserves any dirt on it is my own. Most sincerely, Sarah Sully