Joel Barlow: American Citizen in a Revolutionary World

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Acknowledgments

I am indebted to the staffs of many libraries and museums—too numerous to be acknowledged—in the United States and Europe for assistance in researching this book. However, I cannot refrain from mentioning a few individuals who were especially helpful. They include Peter Drummey of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Anne B. Shepherd of the Cincinnati Historical Society Library, Roy E. Goodman of the American Philosophical Society, Thomas G. Lannon of the New York Public Library, Edward O’Reilly of the New York Historical Society, Judy Schiff of the Manuscripts and Archives division of the Yale University Library, and Lizanne Reger of the National Portrait Gallery.

Quotations referenced by the abbreviation BPL are printed courtesy of the trustees of the Boston Public Library, Rare Books; those referenced by HB (the Hay Library at Brown University), courtesy of the Brown University Library; those referenced by NYPL, courtesy of the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Special thanks are due to the University Press of Virginia, and particularly David Sewell, for allowing me temporary access to the Dolley Madison Digital Edition, edited by Holly C. Shulman, so that I might check the accuracy of Samuel Olmsted’s transcriptions of documents contained therein.

I am grateful to Kate Wessling, M.D., for some of the medical information in the text; to Charles A. Couch for taking me on a tour of historic Redding, Connecticut; to Robert Mankin of the University of Paris, for helping me with local arrangements; to Philipp Ziesche, who shared the draft of two chapters from his Cosmopolitan Patriots: Americans in Paris in the Age of the French Revolution (2010) with me; and to Peter Onuf, Jean-François Dunyach, and Howard G. Brown for reading and commenting on all or portions of the manuscript. The book has benefited from the editorial suggestions of Robert J. Brugger and the editing of Julia Ridley Smith and Kimberly F. Johnson.

Without an emeritus fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation during 2005–2007, I would never have undertaken this biography. Without the continuing support of the Olin Memorial Library at Wesleyan University, I could not have brought the book to completion. I am especially indebted to John Wareham, of Wesleyan’s Information Technology Services, for processing the illustrations that appear in the book; and to Emilie Bremond-Poule, my research assistant in Paris, who helped me navigate the intricacies of France’s historical archives. My greatest debt, though, is to my wife, Marilyn, who carefully read the manuscript at several stages in its development and who has encouraged and supported all my scholarly efforts.