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Acknowledgments

xiii Acknowledgments This book owes its success to my English and humanities colleagues at Wilkes University, especially Dr. Lawrence Kuhar, chairperson, who taught me how worthwhile it is to encourage and support scholarship in a liberal arts institution . Drs. Marcia Farrell, Thomas Hamill, Maria HebertLeiter , Kathleen Kemmerer, Chad Stanley, and Janet Starner make that vision real. Just as Lucinda serves as a link between history and fiction , so many individuals have provided links for me to research materials: Stewart Manville, family genealogist, whose gifts of hospitality, friendship, and biographical information on Manvill history are invaluable to the spirit and letter of Lucinda; Brian Sacolic, Mary Watkins, and the entire Eugene Farley Library staff at Wilkes University; Richard Lindberg, State Library of Pennsylvania; John Ratche and Miriam Mandelbaum, Rare Books and Manuscripts, New York Public Library; Marie E. Lamoureux, American Antiquarian Society; Mary DeMarco, Greenville town historian; Karen Ufford Campola and Kristina Reese, Saratoga County historians; Merrillyn Claimtree; Elva Griffith, Rare Books and Manuscripts, the Ohio State University Libraries; Charlotte Hegyi, archivist, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Jill Rosenshield, associate curator and Yiddish bibliographer, xiv | Acknowledgments University of Wisconsin–Madison Memorial Library; Randy True, Interlibrary Loans, Oklahoma State University; Drs. Jeffrey Walker, Edward Jones, and Robert Mayer, Oklahoma State University; Professor Cathy Davidson; the Houghton Library staff at Harvard University; Ben Primer and Margaret Sherry, Princeton University Library; Daisy Wright and Gayle Cooper, Alderman Library Special Collections, University of Virginia; Jean Rainwater, Special Collections, John Hay Library, Brown University; Aggie Stillman, archivist, Sage Colleges, Troy Campus Library; Magdelena Delicka; the Canaday Center at the University of Toledo Library; William B. Eigelsbach, Manuscripts, University of Tennessee; Katherine Reagan, Rare Books, Cornell University Library; Thomas Hamm, Earlham College; Mark F. Weimer, curator , Special Collections, Syracuse University; Elizabeth Corbett , Special Collections assistant, Skidmore College; Jessy Randall, Library Company of Philadelphia; Betsy Pittman, university archivist, University of Connecticut’s Thomas J. Dodd Research Center; Daniel J. Slive, Rare Books librarian, UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research Library; Ellen Pedraza, archivist, University of Wisconsin–Parkside; Cynthia A. Johnson , Barnard College Library; Pat Tomczak, Quincy College; Patrick F. McIntyre, North Country Community College of Saranac Lake, New York; Larisa John, Utica College; Patricia Lee Thornberry, Special Collections, University of South Florida; James Corsaro, the University of the State of New York at Albany; Carolyn Hargrove, Murray State University; Jane Siegel, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University; Nicholas Smith, Rare Books Department of Cambridge University Library; Jay Satterfield of Special Collections at the University of Chicago Library; Michael Winship, Acknowledgments | xv professor of English at the University of Texas–Austin; Bruce Turner, University of Louisiana–Lafayette Library; Gerrianne Schaad, archivist, Woodson Research Center, Foundren Library, Rice University; David Oberhelman, John Phillips, Kona Kelly, and the entire reference staff, Edmond Low Library, Oklahoma State University; Barbara Flach, Greenville Public Library; Latter-day Saints Family History Center staff, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Meredith Haddock, Library of Congress; Len DeGiovine, Greenville, New York, Chamber of Commerce; Ruth Ann, the Heritage Hunters; Jeffrey T. Hartley, National Archives and Records; Dedra J. Roberts and Karen Clark, Saratoga Gen Web; Oklahoma Historical Society Research Library; Lisa Ann Libby, Rare Book Stacks supervisor, the Huntington Library; Brian Spangle, Knox County Public Library; Maine Historical Society; Boston Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts Division; Nicholas Graham, Massachusetts Historical Society; Rhode Island Historical Society; Susan Fagan and Margaret Kulis, Newberry Library; Matthew Braun, DeWitt Historical Society ; Judith A. Harrington, Waterloo, New York, Library and Historical Society; Howard R. Van Kirk Jr., Seneca County historian; Stefan Belinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project, New York State Museum; Linday Toohey, Ballston Spa Chamber of Commerce; Harold Augenbraum, Mercantile Library Association; Wayne Shepherd, Hampden, Maine; Fletcher Blanchard; Mary Woodman; W. David Samuelson; and Bill MacKay. Finally, to Lino, who has suffered and celebrated with me. I don’t know how to thank you. ...