| It should go without saying that those whom we acknowledged in the first volume of this collection gave help and encouragement which is reflected in this volume as well. While it does not seem practical to mention each one again by name, we feel keenly the continuing importance of their contributionthe second volume of these letters bears the same debt to their generosity as did the first. |
| In the meantime, however, we have accumulated fresh debts and we are pleased to acknowledge them here. We wish to thank, in addition to the librarians, curators, and archivists whom we have (inadequately) thanked already, Mrs. Clyde A. Little, York County Historical Society, York, Nebraska; Miss Margaret Gleason, the Wisconsin State Historical Society; Mr. Allen R. Ottley, the California State Library, Sacramento; Mr. Paul D. Riley, the Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln; Miss Kate M. Stewart, Manuscript Division, the Library of Congress; Miss Martha Ann Peters, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore; Mr. Kenneth A. Lohf, Columbia University Library; Dr. Theophile Raphael, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Mary Esther Saxon of the University of Oklahoma Library. We feel a special gratitude to Mrs. Erika Chadbourn who has repeatedly taken the time and trouble to call new letters to our attention as they become available at the Harvard Law School Library. |
| Three generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, given at the beginning of this undertaking, were indispensable in the early stages of work on this volume. We are most grateful for the support of the Endowment and for the many considerations and kindnesses shown to us by its directors and staff. A timely grant from the National Historical Publications Commission made it possible to publish this volume on schedule. The Commission, under the directorship of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, has been most understanding and considerate of our needs. We hope that this volume will testify to the value of agencies like these two. The State University of New York at Albany continued its support through the Research Foundation, and we |
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