knowledge the debt to those who have made possible the research
and the collections which are priceless: Thomas Noon Talfourd,
Barry Cornwall, Percy FitzGerald, R. H. Shepherd, William
Macdonald, Canon Alfred Ainger and above all others, E. V.
Lucas.

The authorities of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the British
Museum, Dr. Williams's Library in London, where I was
graciously accorded the exciting privilege of reading the manu-
script of the diary of Henry Crabb Robinson, the New York
Public Library, the Widener Library at Harvard and the Henry
E. Huntington Library at San Marino, California, to these I am
under special indebtedness for many favours not in the routine
of daily service.

My special gratitude I desire to convey to the publisher,
D. Laurance Chambers, who so promptly and heartily gave me
encouragement in the writing of the book and so ably contrib-
uted valuable suggestions for the revision of the manuscript. To
Ethel M. Thackray I desire to express my acknowledgment for
continuing encouragement and for definite criticism in the read-
ing of the proof, to Helen E. Tarbox for much more than the
preparation of the manuscript and to Patricia Jones of the edi-
torial staff of the Bobbs-Merrill Company for most careful atten-
tion to the editing of the manuscript and for checking the proof.

At the end of each of the thousands of bills of lading which
passed through Lamb's hands were the words:

"God send the good ship safe to harbour."

-- W. D. K.