Help in preparing the translation and in gathering the notes came from numerous individuals and organizations. A year as a visiting scholar at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University gave me time to work on the project in addition to my other research and reading, and I am very grateful to the staff of the Sterling Library at Yale and the Mortensen Library at the University of Hartford for their many favors. Detlev Blanke, Ionel Onet, Pál Felsö, Ulrich Lins, Bernard Golden, Ervin Fenyvesi, Vilmos Benczik, Peter Breit, Isrván Ertl Sr, Ferenc Kovács, György Nanovfszky, Julius Elias and others assisted me in tracking down specific information and in correcting errors. Antonio Ferrer hunted down correspondence in La Laguna. István Ertl Jr, my editor for the new Esperanto edition which I am currently completing, has answered numerous questions, productively raised others, and provided me with suggestions for reading – as well as the manuscript of the Esperanto translation of Nina Langlet’s memoir which he is now preparing for publication. Paul Soros and Flora Fraser have patiently answered my questions and plied me with background information about the family. I am particularly grateful to Simo Milojević for suggesting that I take this project on in the first place. While many of the accuracies in this volume, to say nothing of the mistakes avoided, are due to people such as these, the errors are mine.
H. T.