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Acknowledgments
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Our greatest debt is to the late Valerie Eliot, for her tireless devotion over many years to collecting, preserving, and ordering her husband’s multiform writings, and for her confidence and trust in commissioning We are indebted to the late Finn M. W. Caspersen, the late William B. Warren, and the trustees of the Hodson Trust for a substantial grant to Johns Hopkins University Press to support the critical edition of this multivolume project. We prize the vision, technical expertise, and dedication of Kathleen Keane and members of the Press who have made this edition a reality: Andre Barnett, Gregory Britton, Matt McAdam, Julie McCarthy, Martha Sewall, Claire McCabe Tamberino, and the director of Project Muse, Wendy Queen. The Beck Foundation and its Digital Center within the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship provided invaluable financial, technical, and personnel support for the creation of the electronic database of Eliot’s prose writings. We are grateful to Sara Palmer, electronic full text specialist, for her masterful supervision of the encoding of this volume; to graduate students Alyssa Duck and Emily Banks for their diligent roles in the electronic process and checking of cross-references; and to Alice Hickcox, former supervisor in the Emory Center, who oversaw the construction of the database, trained staff and students, and supervised the encoding of the first four volumes. The editors applaud their skill, dedication, and precision in completing these essential tasks. Dean Robert A. Paul of Emory College and Deans Rick Rubinson and Lisa Tedesco of the Laney Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Emory provided fellowship support for earlier graduate members of Team Eliot: Lori Leavell, Erin Sells, Stewart Varner, Shannon Hipp, Jessie Dunbar, John Davidson, Jae Turner, and Sumita Chakraborty. The SIRE Undergraduate Research Program provided a succession of fellows who made significant contributions to the database and other aspects of the editorial project: Ryan Plocher, Lisa Sweat, Ali Madani, Wesley Pickard, Many faculty at Loyola University Chicago contributed their expertise to this project: Kathleen Adams; Melissa Bradshaw; Jasper (Jack) Cragwall; Paul Eggert; Aidan Forth; Verna Foster; Steven E. Jones (now at the University of South Florida); Thomas Kaminski; James A. Knapp; Mark McIntosh; Hugh Nicholson; Peter Shillingsburg; Virginia Lee Strain; Thomas H. Tobin, SJ; Edward Wheatley; and Christine Wiseman (now president emerita, St. Xavier University). Francis L. Fennell and Joyce Wexler, as past and present chairs of the English Department, provided much-appreciated support. Niamh McGuigan, head of Research Services in the University Libraries, went far beyond the call of duty to solve a number of seemingly intractable problems. Our sincere thanks, as well, to librarians Jennifer Stegen, Jennifer Jacobs, and Jane P. Currie for their aid, and to graduate assistant Stephanie Kucsera for her sharp-eyed contributions at the proofreading stage. Through the Institute of English Studies, University of London, the Eliot Editorial Project received a substantial three-year grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to support the research of our English editors. The Institute, under the former direction of Professor Warwick Gould, emeritus, and now Professor Rick Rylance, has further provided an editorial office and technical support for all members of the editorial team, which has benefited from the assistance of Christopher Adams of the Institute staff. The editors are grateful to Stephen Page and Matthew Hollis of Faber & Faber for their support of this critical edition, and to Faber archivist Robert Brown and Eliot Estate archivist Nancy Fulford for providing access to and assistance with archival materials. We are thankful for the generosity and cooperation of Archibald Henderson, Eliot’s bibliographer, who has shared with us scores of newly discovered prose items that he has brought to the bibliography through rigorous research. Our thanks are due as well to John Haffenden, Institute of English Studies, general editor of Eliot’s correspondence, for his gracious help with several research questions. For their...
