Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age

Acknowledgments to the First Edition

Acknowledgments to the First Edition I should like to express my sincere thanks to the persons who kindly granted personal interviews or otherwise answered my queries, including Roger N. Baldwin, Gordon Cairnie, Fred Dicker, Morris Ernst, Charles B. Everitt, Walter Willard (Spud) Johnson, Alfred A. Knopf, Louis Lyons, Charles W. Morton, Allan Nevins, Mary U. Rothrock, Henry W. Simon, Upton Sinclair, Dwight S. Strong, and Edward Weeks. My thanks to five men must be given posthumously: Raymond Calkins, Donald Friede, B. W. Huebsch, Delcevare King, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. Many other individuals and institutions were helpful in various ways. These include Miss Irene Goodsell ofthe Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts; Richard Hart ofthe Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore ; David C. Mearns of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress; John Mullane of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County; Virgil W. Peterson ofthe Chicago Crime Commission ; Miss Irene Peterson ofthe Chicago Public Library; and Alan Reitman of the American Civil Liberties Union. Milton R. Merrill of Utah State University kindly gave permission to quote from his doctoral dissertation on Reed Smoot, and Roger N. Baldwin did the same for his reminiscences in the Oral History Library at Columbia University . Zechariah Chafee III graciously granted access to his father's papers in the Harvard University Archives. The Department of Hisxv xvi PURITY IN PRINT tory of Harvard University provided special funds for additional research in Albany and Princeton. I should like also to thank Janet Beal, who generously aided in the task of proofreading, and Thomas J. Davis, III, History Editor at Charles Scribner's Sons. Professor Frank Freidel, who has seen this study grow from a graduate seminar paper into a book, gave warm encouragement and sound advice at all stages. Dr. Edward T. James, editor of Notable American Women, 1607-1950, on whose staff I served for several years while revising and rewriting my own manuscript , provided encouraging evidence that a scrupulous regard for accuracy need not preclude a gracious literary style. My wife Ann Chapman Boyer has played a greater role than I can well acknowledge here, but her more immediate contributions included several careful and critical readings of the entire manuscript. Is it necessary to add the conventional disclaimer? None of the above persons should in any way be held responsible for the lapses and errors which inevitably remain. Hadley, Massachusetts March, 1968 PAUL s. BOYER ...