| Confident that an ex post facto acknowledgment is unique in the genre, I thank the members of the American Maritain Association and the Canadian Maritain Association for their collegiality at the joint annual meeting of their societies in Montreal, in October 1987, after I had finished this book. Their interest in the person and the philosophy of Jacques Maritain, and Rassa's part in both, immediately opened their ranks to me, an interloper with no head for philosophy. The cordial ambiance that prevailed at the meeting provided one more example of the networks of grandes amitis I have encountered since I first read Rassa's book of that title. |
| For conversations and correspondence over the past decade, I thank these friends and associates of the Maritains': Cornelia Borgerhoff, Pierre Brodin, Pierre Emmanuel, Francis Fergusson, Etienne Gilson, John Howard Griffin, Antoinette Grunelius, Olivier Lacombe, Gabriel Marcel, John U. Nef, Paule Simon, Heinz R. Schmitz, Allen Tate, and Ren Voillaume. I am particularly grateful to Cornelia Borgerhoff for hospitality in Princeton and for continued kindnesses, and to Antoinette Grunelius for hospitality at the Centre d'Etudes Jacques et Rassa Maritain in Kolbsheim. |
| The library staffs at these institutions have helped me locate materials or gain access to rare items or restricted collections: the Institut Catholique de Paris, the New York Public Library, the Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame, Princeton University, Seattle University; the Rassa Maritain Memorial Library at the Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Princeton, and the University of Washington. I thank especially Barbara Lisenby and Adrienne Cobb in the Interlibrary Loan office at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. |
| For grants that gave me time off from teaching and the resources to travel to research centers in the United States and Europe, I thank the American Philosophical Society; the Institut International Jacques et Rassa Maritain, for inviting me to give a talk on Rassa at a conference in Venice, paying the considerable expenses, and allowing me to meet Gilbert Manuel, Paule Manuel, and Elisabeth Fourest; the National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Program; and the Services Culturels Franais. Research toward the book was also supported in part by funds from the Foundation of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and from the State of North Carolina. |
| At various stages of the project, friends and colleagues have provided a willing ear, a critical eye, good ideas, or good company: Ann Carver, Boyd Davis, Fred |
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