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xvii Acknowledgments ThiS ProjEct haS benefited from the help of many people. Foremost among them have been the staffs of the many libraries that I have consulted. Bernard Crystal, and later Jennifer Lee, of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University facilitated my access to the Morris manuscripts deposited there, as did Patrick Kerwin and Emily Howie of the Library of Congress. The staff of Houghton Library, Harvard University , guided me to the Jared Sparks papers, and Roy Goodman of the American Philosophical Society gave helpful encouragement and advice. The staffs of the Boston Athenaeum, Beinecke Library of Yale University, Pattee Library of Penn State University, and Firestone Library of Princeton University also provided helpful and timely assistance. This project would never have been completed, however, if it had not been for the staff of L. A. Beeghly Library at Juniata College. Lynn Jones was persistent in prying materials from reluctant lenders through interlibrary loan. Julie Woodling put me onto the Charles Brockden Brown Archive and Scholarly Edition and alerted me to the archivists’ skepticism about Brown’s authorship of “The British Treaty.” Andy Dudash—Old Faithful—came through time and again with information and sources, and introduced me to the Juniata pamphlet collection. I am very grateful to all of them. The James Madison Program at Princeton University provided me an incomparable place to work during my sabbatical in 2007–8. I am grateful to the program’s founder and director, Robert P. George, and to Executive Director Brad Wilson, for being such generous hosts, and to the Garwood family for their support of my fellowship. Duanyi Wang is a magician with computer files; without her help this project would never have been done on time. Juniata College provided the sabbatical leave, and the Provost’s Office—Jim Lakso and Joanne Krugh—has supported this project in many ways large and small since the very beginning. A number of Juniata students have worked on this project over the seven years from its first conception until its completion: Nicole Watson , Rebecca Zajdel, Amber Laird, Emily Hauser, Sarah Weick, Mariel xviii acknowLEdgMEntS Little, Jacob Gordon, Manal Daher-Mansour, Jordan Yeagley, and Madeline Rathey have all contributed in helpful ways. Many colleagues have offered encouragement and support for the project as well, prominent among them Michael Zuckert, William B. Allen, John Kaminski, Art Kaufman, Melanie Miller, James Kirschke, and Barbara Oberg. My class of fellows at the James Madison Program—Robert L.Clinton , David Ericson, Paul Kerry, Daryl Charles, and Sebastien Viguier— provided help and good conversation. My Juniata colleagues Jim Tuten, David Sowell, David Hsiung, Emil Nagengast, and Dennis Plane have also been very supportive; Belle Tuten advised me on many of the Latin translations . Laura Goetz of Liberty Fund has been consistently helpful and patient throughout the project. I am also grateful for the very helpful and careful editing by the Liberty Fund staff. Most of all I am grateful for the support of my family—my wife, Kathleen, and our children, Susan, David, and Julia—who have suffered through this project in many ways. My son David was the only one who actually had a hand in it, however, and I appreciate his careful editing of many of the headnotes and the introduction. The errors are mine. ...

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