Text: Burton R. Pollin, “Acknowledgments,” Discoveries in Poe, 1970, pp. xi-xii (This material is protected by copyright)

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to express my gratitude for indispensable aid in the writing and production of Discoveries in Poe to the following individuals and organizations:

For specific advice from his unequalled store of information and balanced judgment — the late Professor Thomas Ollive Mabbott.

For the encouragement and very practical assistance, permitting travel in this country and in Europe and a term of leisure during 1968 — The American Council of Learned Societies and the New York State University Research Foundation, donor of a grant and a Distinguished Research Fellowship.

For providing a wide variety of rare or necessary books and manuscripts, especially through the good offices of the individuals named — the Bronx Community College Library (Professors Jeanne Kolliner and Edwin Terry, with clerical help from Bertha Cohen and Evelyn Schweidel); Columbia University Library (Rita Keckeissen and Eugene P. Sheehy); the British Museum; the Bibliotheque Nationale; the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library (Dr. Donald Reiman); the New York Public Library, including the music collection at Lincoln Center; the Henry E. Huntington Library (Carey S. Bliss); the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia; Dr. William Doyle Hull II of Hofstra University; the Libraries of New York University; the Lilly Library of Indiana University (David A. Randall and Josiah Q. Bennett); and the Library of the University of North Carolina (Dean Walter A. Sedelow and Donna Setzer).

For excellent advice — the University of Notre Dame Press (Emily Schossberger, Dominic Lorenzo, and Ann Rice). [page xii:]

For unfailing good judgment and boundless patience — my wife, Alice M. Pollin.

My gratitude is also due to the editors of various journals for permission to republish, greatly altered, studies which became parts of my book: chapter i, Revue de Litterature Comparee, December, 1968; chapter ii, Revue des Langues Vivantes, September, 1968; chapter vi, Comparative Literature Studies, Winter, 1968; chapter vii, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, December, 1965; chapter x, Etudes Anglaises, January, 1967; and chapter xi, Revue des Langues Vivantes, August, 1967.