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My journey with Adela has been a long and a rich one. I have received an immense amount of help and encouragement from many people. This is only a partial list. This book would not have been possible without the help of Sue Giles, Curator of Ethnography & Foreign Archaeology, Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery. She has answered so many requests and questions; her insights into Adela and the collection at Bristol have been invaluable; but beyond that, her friendship and encouragement have enriched the journey immeasurably. I wish to acknowledge, with sincere thanks, the anonymous person who provided the subsidy for the color illustrations. The book—and its readers—are much richer because of that generosity. The BRLSI opened its collections and records to me and answered many inquiries. I particularly thank Bob Draper for his unfailing support of the project. Curators and staff at the Victoria Art Gallery, particularly Sue Sloman and Katherine Wall, also shared the collection and records of Adela’s paintings; it was a special privilege to see her early paintings. At the RAI, Hermione Cornwall-Jones and Chris Wright went out of their way to accommodate our travel schedule and locate material so that we could spend time with the collection. I had the good fortune to work with Una MacDowell, Gloria Greis, and Sara Demb, among others, at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. They eased the challenge of long-distance archival research and made my brief visits both productive and pleasant. At the University of Pennsylvania Museum, Alessandro Pezzati consistently tracked down the answers to requests, made suggestions, and processed materials for me to use. Mr. Guillermo Nánez Falcón, Director of the Latin American Library at Tulane University, helped determine the holdings pertaining to Adela in the Latin American Library and assisted with numerous questions. I deeply appreciate the helpful and courteous assistance of archivists in a variety of institutions holding Breton material, and the permission to quote from material in their archives. In my research I utilized heavily the research and interlibrary loan facilities of Osterle Library at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. I am very appreciative of the cheerful and unceasing help and interest from the library staff, and in particular the help of June Johnson, who worked wonders in tracking down obscure material. In the course of trying to locate material— and following the “leave no stone unturned” theory of research—I sent dozens of letters of inquiry over the years. All were answered, and all 208 ______________________________________ Acknowledgments acknowledgments 209 ______________________________________ the respondents took the trouble to research their own files. Many sent suggestions of places where I might make further inquiries. I am grateful to all of those correspondents. I received help from many whose names I don’t remember. One in particular, an alert and thoughtful person at the Pennsylvania Historical Society, made the connection that put me in contact with the family of Clifford Lewis III. My meetings and talks with the family of Clifford Lewis III—Mr. Lewis, Molly, Cliff, and Chris—were a source of great pleasure in addition to unraveling the mystery of the family of Adela’s mother, Elizabeth D’Arch Breton. Denise Chantrey of Bath also filled in many gaps in the family tree, and uncovered useful and interesting information about the Breton and the D’Arch families. Ross Parmenter, who was a wealth of knowledge about the Americanists and, of course, about Zelia Nuttall, not only shared his knowledge and insights, but gave me useful suggestions about working with the material. I miss our conversations. Many other people, including Virginia Miller and Richard Townsend, gave me helpful information and encouragement. Chris Beekman generously passed along a wonderful bit of information that I never would have located. Rodney Quayle generously offered, and gave, his time and efforts at a time when longdistance research was becoming discouraging and problematic. Don and I will never forget, also, the lovely day when, with Rodney, we made the “pilgrimage” to Lansdowne Cemetery in Bath where he had cleared the nettles from the graves of Adela’s parents. Jim Langley was the first to urge me to write Adela’s biography. He also passed along suggestions for locating material, and his insights into her work at Teopancaxco. Particular thanks are due to Tom and Cyndi Charlton for their suggestions, information, and above all, persevering encouragement all these years. I had the good fortune to have a particularly careful and helpful...

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