people. It is a pleasure to list, first of all, Mary C. Simms
Oliphant. She has made freely available to me both her exten-
sive private collection of Simms material and the manuscripts
deposited in the South Caroliniana Library of the University
of South Carolina. She and her sisters, Mrs. Cole and Mrs.
Buck, entertained my wife and me in their home at Green-
ville, and also at Woodlands. Mrs. Oliphant read the manu-
script and made several valuable suggestions, but never once
did she suggest that anything derogatory to Simms be omitted.

Two of my colleagues, John Olin Eidson and Rayburn
Moore, and Hugh Holman of the University of North
Carolina, likewise read the manuscript; Edwin M. Everett read
several sections of it. Each made useful and usable suggestions
which I have incorporated in the work. I am grateful to them
for their aid. It is also pleasant to pay tribute to Jay B. Hubbell
and to his invaluable work in the field of Southern Literature.
I am also indebted to Mr. A. S. Salley for making available
to me his private collection of Simms' work--it too is now in
the South Caroliniana Library.

Without the generous assistance of several libraries and
librarians this work would have been vastly more difficult.
Porter Kellam, John Bonner, John Marshall and other staff-
members of the University of Georgia Library have given me
constant and intelligent help throughout the work; E. L. Inabi-
nett, Director of the South Caroliniana Library, and Ben
Powell and Jay B. Hubbell, Jr., of the Duke University
Library, have courteously and efficiently helped me in the use
of their extensive manuscript collections. For the opportunity
of working in these and other libraries, I am indebted to the
M. G. Michael Award of the University of Georgia; this
assistance has helped to make possible the completion of this
monograph.

Two parts of this study have been previously published:
the first chapter, in essentially the same form, in the Georgia
Review; the section on Simms' editing of the Shakspeare
Apocrypha is condensed from a longer article that appeared
in Studies in Shakespeare ( University of Miami Press, 1953).

Most of all, for unflagging help with the research, for
intelligent criticism of the writing, and for steadying encour-
agement, I am grateful to my wife, Aileen Wells Parks.

E. W. P.

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