To my wife’s acknowledgements, I must add on behalf of both of us our thanks to Dr. Susan Shaw Sailer and Dr. Carole Ganim for reading the penultimate version of the manuscript. I also want to reiterate our gratitude to our friend Owen Dudley Edwards of the University of Edinburgh.
I am grateful to the staffs of the Hamilton County Public Library, main branch, in Cincinnati and Indiana University Library at Bloomington.
We are especially indebted to Dr. Antoinette Larkin of the Department of Humanities, Media & Cultural Studies at the University of Cincinnati for undertaking the arduous task of laying out and producing the camera-ready copy for this book. I am very grateful to Dr. Larkin, Tom Stead, the Art Coordinator at Shawnee State University and Mr. Chris Justin of the University of Cincinnati for their fine work in scanning and editing the illustrations.
I also want to thank Laura Schneider for proofreading the manuscript. Thanks to my friend Kevin McHugh for permission to use the excerpt from Felix Culpa which was read at Leslie Willams’ memorial service.
I am personally indebted to the support of Graham Irwin, my dean, and to my colleagues of the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati for their support over a very difficult period.
Finally, I am grateful to all of those individuals I have dealt with at Ashgate for their patience and for their dedication to detail.
William H.A. Williams
Union Institute and University
Cincinnati, Ohio
March 2002