| I cannot fail publicly to express my thanks to four groups with which I was in close contact over many months. American Iron and Steel Institute provided me with splendid resources and warm encouragement. To its officers and staff, in particular to Max D. Howell, executive vice president, and George S. Rose, secretary, and to its Committee on General Research, I am deeply indebted. The First Iron Works Association, especially in the person of its president, J. Sanger Attwill, has been most kind and has demonstrated a commitment to accuracy in the reconstruction and in the historical research which has never wavered. It gave me access to its collection of historical materials, and its clerk, Miss M. Louise Hawkes, shared with me her rich knowledge of local history and genealogy, and spent many hours transcribing timeworn manuscripts. Her gentle spirit has been an inspiration to me and to all who worked at Saugus. To the Restoration architects, the Boston firm of Perry, Shaw and Hepburn, Kehoe and Dean, and in particular to its able representative Conover Fitch, Jr., I am indebted for data, interpretations of data, and many happy hours of joint effort in bridging the gap between the raw materials of technological history and the various units of an actual ironworks. Architects and historian profited alike from the practical skills of the builders of the Restoration, H. M. Bogart and Company, of Charlestown. Albert W. Barnard, a partner in the firm, and Donald P. Jones, job superintendent, taught me much. |
| Complementing the historical research in the gathering of data with which to authenticate the Restoration was the archeological work of Roland Wells Robbins and his assistants. From his findings I derived many new insights and not a few corrections of old ones. In checking his and my data, the resources of several steel company laboratories were invaluable. I am in the debt of a number of their technical specialists, especially of Dr. Hobart M. Kraner, of Bethlehem, and Earle C. Smith, of Cleveland. In the preparation of publicity materials and preliminary historical summaries, Hill and Knowlton, Inc., the public relations counsel for the Steel Institute and for the Saugus Restoration, in particular as represented by Howard Stephenson, a former vice president, has been most helpful. |
| Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, who first sparked my interest in colonial American history, has given me encouragement and help in the present study. I am especially grateful for his having made available his notes on business and industry in seventeenth-century Massa- |
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