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Acknowledgments xv Naturally, we are especially grateful to the late Dr. F. J. G. Jefferiss; his widow, Phyllis Jefferiss; his son, Jeremy James Jefferiss; and his cousin, James Mackenzie, for agreeing to permit the publication of the case book that forms the basis of the analysis of the patrons and customers of the mad-trade that we present in part 1, and that we reprint in its entirety (with annotations) in part 2. We would both like to thank them for their support, courtesy, and encouragement during the period in which we have worked on this project. Without them, obviously, we could never have produced this book, and we hope they will be pleased with the volume that their generosity has made possible. It would be remiss of us not to thank colleagues and friends who have given us extremely valuable suggestions and feedback on matters associated with this study. A number of people have gone further, and have read and commented on drafts of our discussion of the issues raised by Monro’s case notes, and on the annotations we have made to the case book itself. In these contexts, we should particularly like to acknowledge the assistance of Joel Braslow, William Bynum, Matthew Craske, Stephen Cox, Liz Foyster, Elaine Murphy, Steven Shapin, and Trevor Turner, and the constant prodding and enthusiastic support we have received from Howard Boyer. Our thanks, finally, to Helen Coward for a great job with the transcription (and for patience over getting paid!), and to Lynnette Turner for her support and encouragement. For sterling assistance with the copyediting and production of this book, we would like to thank Laura Harger and Sue Carter of the University of California Press. Thanks, too, to Stan Holwitz, and to Brian Southam. As this book went to press, we learned with shock and dismay of the death of Roy Porter. A man of boundless energy, wit, generosity, and kindness, he will be deeply missed by all who knew him, and by the thousands of people who were acquainted with him only through his prodi- gious scholarly output. Roy was a friend and an immensely supportive colleague to both of us for many years (and the former doctoral supervisor of one of us). While his eloquent scholarship has graced a dizzying array of fields in social, cultural, medical, and scientific history, Roy was most at home in the eighteenth century. His pioneering history of madness in this period, Mind Forg’d Manacles, led many, including ourselves , to re-examine the place of insanity in Enlightenment England, and it is no exaggeration to say that, but for him, this book would never have been written. xvi Acknowledgments ...

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