George Washington

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments THIS WORK could not have been compiled as it has, and certainly not so well, without the able direction of Liberty Fund, Inc. Nor can I submit it to the world without acknowledging my debt to them. Mr. Eldon Alexander, who is writing a thesis on Washington 's political ideas, assisted me throughout the process of collecting , reviewing, and compiling information for this work. I am grateful for his meticulous care. The Earhart Foundation supported my labors by affording me release-time from teaching to carry out the work. Thanks to them, the time it took to complete the project was considerably less than it might have been. Mrs. Nathaniel Stein deserves special recognition for generously sharing with me the work of the late Dr. Stein on Washington 's "discarded inaugural" and for providing information which enabled me to close the loop in tracing the derivation and circulation of those fragments in the past thirty to forty years. Dr. W. W. Abbot and his able assistant, Dorothy Twohig, of the University of Virginia's Washington Papers Project at the Alderman Library shared generously their files and graciously received us at their facility. The Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, California, and its reference staff were especially helpful in facilitating our research. And many other collections and rexix Acknowledgments positories responded generously to our requests for information and materials. Those whose contributions deserve special note are: Duke University Library Lilly Library, Indiana University Marblehead Historical Society, Marblehead, Massachusetts Stanford University Library, Manuscript Division Winthrop College Archives, Dacus Library, Rock Hill, South Carolina. I also owe thanks to Harvey Mudd College and to my colleagues , without whose general support I could not have carried out this work. W.B.A. Claremont, California XX ...