Acknowledgements

For their invaluable assistance, the editors wish to thank Frances Banks, Kevin Binfield, Carol Bolton, Tim Burke, P.M.S Dawson, Parvin Fatemi, Stella Gibbs, Kevin Gilmartin, Dr Selwyn H. Goodacre, John Goodridge, Bruce Graver, Jerome De Groot, Philip Hoskins, Kaye Kossick, Simon Kövesi, Tilar J. Mazzeo, Scott McEathron, Michael Murphy, Ian Packer, Morton D. Paley, Eric Robinson, Sharon Ruston, Sam Ward, Angus Whitehead, the Bedfordshire Local History Association. For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editors wish to thank the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.

A research grant from the British Academy made much of the archival work possible, as did support from the English Department of Nottingham Trent University.