[Mott] Finally.........

[Charles Sinclair]

Dear All,

I have spent far more time than sensible in re-writing part of the 
Introduction (and made a few changes in the abstract).  I have tried to 
incorporate the many suggested changes I received from several of you, 
using the criteria for changes that I sent out a while back.  One item I 
struggled with was the discussion of low energy Mott that I have put in 
the original introduction.  It added length, but in the end I couldn't 
connect it to our work in a way I felt meaningful.  And a couple of the 
criticisms I received of the earlier version was that the intro was too 
long. So - I have shortened it, eliminating much I believed to be 
irrelevant.  At this point, I'd like to limit future comments to those 
that point our errors, lack of clarity, etc., rather than someone's 
preferred change of wording.  Please don't worry greatly about the 
references.  Tim pointed out a number of small errors in the original 
version, and I believe I have corrected all of these.  At this point, 
I'm trying to just keep the references straight so that the final 
version will be easier to assemble in PRC's format.  I'm aware that PRC 
does not use titles of papers in their publications.  The inclusion of 
these titles is for my reference only - they will be easily eliminated 
in the final version.  Note that a number of the references will seem 
irrelevant to the abstract and introduction - they were put in because 
there were part of the longer text I originally sent around, and am only 
now trying to finish off.  With a little luck, I should have some more 
material in a near-finished form before very long.

Mary and I are going to come to VA to see old friends who will likely 
never visit us in Oregon.  We expect to get to Richmond on Saturday, 
April 29th, and will leave for DC on Friday May 5th.  I do plan on 
getting to JLab for at least most of a day, and perhaps this would be a 
good time for us (at least those at JLab) to meet and resolve issues 
about the writing.  I presently am a little skeptical that the "final" 
paper will be available by that time, but who knows???  We should be 
close - perhaps close enough that we can at least schedule the "final" 
meeting about the paper, and start the process (hopefully short) of 
turning it into PRC format.

Best,

Charlie

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