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amine the manuscripts at Grasmere will find there a table of correspondences for the
old and new numbering.
Professor Owen’s research has been generously supported by the Humanities
Research Council of Canada, the Canada Council, and McMaster University, and
Professor Smyser’s by a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies and
frequent research grants from Connecticut College.
We are also grateful to many scholars and friends who have assisted us in numerous
ways and it is pleasant here to express our gratitude to them. Helen Darbishire comes
first to mind for she welcomed us to Grasmere and aided us at the very beginning of
this undertaking; her wisdom and generosity are unforgettable. The loyal support of
Professor Basil Willey, as chairman of the Dove Cottage Trustees, has, over a long period
of time, been invaluable; indeed, he and his fellow Trustees have made this edition
possible. At Grasmere too we have found in the librarians allies par excellence: first,
Miss Phoebe Johnson and later and for a longer time, Miss Nesta Clutterbuck. To them
especially, but also to Dr. Stephen Gill, whose librarianship more briefly overlapped
our days of research, we are deeply grateful. By their admirable publications Professor
Zera S. Fink, the late Professor George H. Healey, Mr. Alan G. Hill, Mrs. Mary Moorman,
Professor Mark L. Reed, and Professor Chester L. Shaver have advanced the
work of all Wordsworth scholars; in addition they have personally assisted us in prompt
and generous ways, which are greatly appreciated. At the Cornell University Library
Professor Donald D. Eddy continues the cordial traditions of George Healey and we
acknowledge with thanks his many kindnesses. For generous aid of various kinds we
are also indebted to Miss Helen K. Aitner, Connecticut College Library; the Revd.
T. E. H. Baily, Shap; Dr. Paul F. Betz, Georgetown University; Dr. F. W. Bradbrook,
University College of North Wales; Dr. Elizabeth M. Brennan, Westfield College, University
of London; Professor A. D. Fitton Brown, University of Leicester; Professor M.
L. Clarke, University College of North Wales; Miss Martha A. Connor, Swarthmore
College Library; the late Professor John F. Danby, University College of North Wales;
Miss Vera Farnell, Grasmere; Mrs. Sylvia Harris, Ambleside; the late Mrs. Beatrix
Hogan; Mr. Wilmarth Lewis, Farmington, Connecticut; Mr. J. R. T. Pollard, University
College of North Wales; Professor Frederick A. Pottle, Yale University; Professor T. M.
Raysor, University of Nebraska; Mr. Kenneth Smith, Tullie House Library; Mr. J. H.
Watkins, University College of North Wales; Dr. George J. Willauer, Jr., Connecticut
College; Miss Marjorie G. Wynne, Yale University Library.
Finally, to Betty Owen and Hamilton Smyser, our shadow collaborators in countless
ways, we give our heartfelt thanks. One particularly generous contribution of