Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments The editors wish to thank the following individuals and institutions for assistance and permissions to use manuscript material. At Old Dominion University, we are grateful to the College of Arts and Letters and Dean Chandra De Silva; the Department of English and its former chair Joyce Neff; and the Old Dominion University Research Foundation for a summer grant that aided in the volume’s preparation. In addition, we owe debts to Old Dominion graduate students Elizabeth Vincelette, who transcribed a number of the letters and achieved readings of words we marveled at, and Daniel Cutshaw, who pursued many of the quotations in Warren’s correspondence. We also thank Sarah Richards for her work in the microform room. Among institutions, we thank the Massachusetts Historical Society for permission to print transcriptions of letters from the Mercy Warren Papers, the Cary Family Papers, and the John Thomas Papers; the Gilder Lehrman Collection, courtesy of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, for GLC 1800.01, Mercy Otis Warren autograph letter to Catharine Macaulay, December 29, 1774, and GLC 1800.02, Mercy Otis Warren autograph letter to Catharine Macaulay, August 24, 1775; the Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, for quotation from a letter of Mercy Otis Warren to Janet Livingston of March 18, 1779; the Wesleyan University Library for the autograph letter of Mercy Otis Warren to Catherine Livingston , November 23, 1780; and the Pilgrim Society Library, Plymouth, Massachusetts, for the letter from Mercy Otis Warren to Elizabeth Otis, June 15, 1783. And special thanks to Nancy Grayson and the editorial staff at the University of Georgia Press for their excellent work. This page intentionally left blank ...