ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would like to express our gratitude to those who have aided in the completion of this study. We are indebted to Dr. John H. Kemble of the Frank C. Munson Institute at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, and Pomona College in California for having directed research in the early phase of this study. Thomas L. Connelly of the U.S. Customs Service at Providence aided us in locating helpful materials and directed us to persons who remembered the Fabre Line. We are thankful to Thomas F. Farrelly and James F. O’Neil, former employees of the U.S. Customs Service, who knew the line firsthand and granted us interviews, in addition to Norton W. Nelson of Goff & Page, Inc., former agent of the Fabre Line, for his incisive recollections.

Finally, we would like to express our thanks to the staffs of the Providence Public Library, the Phillips Library and Archives at Providence College, the John D. Rockefeller Library at Brown University, the University of Rhode Island Library, the G. W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport, the United States Custom House at Providence and the Diocese of Providence Archives.

Others who helped with the publication of this long-delayed project are Paul Campbell, archivist of the City of Providence; Dr. Hilliard Beller, editor for the Rhode Island Publications Society; photographer Frank Mullin; and Linda Gallen and Anna Loiselle, who not only typed the manuscript but also did extensive Internet searches for information. We are appreciative, also, for the sustained interest of The History Press in Rhode Island’s history and heritage.