INTRODUCTION

out stint. Mr. Leonard L. Mackall, of Baltimore and Savannah, erudite
bibliophile and citizen of the world, has given to the author guidance as to
sources of information, and has inspired him with something of his own
zest in literary research. Mr. L. H. Dielman, of the Peabody Institute, Bal-
timore, not only has given freely of his bibliographical and historical knowl-
edge, but as well has displayed throughout that peculiarly sympathetic
quality of interest and encouragement which is his choice possession. Mr.
George Watson Cole, the Henry E. Huntington librarian, in a specific
matter has made easy a part of the task which the author's ignorance of
certain bibliographical practices was rendering laborious. For assistance
in other specific points thanks are due to Mr. Edward Ingle and J. Hall
Pleasants, M.D. of Baltimore; the Rev. Thomas Hughes and the late Rev.
E. I. Devitt, both of the Society of Jesus; Messrs. Hugh A. Morrison and
J. C. Fitzpatrick of the Library of Congress; Mr. Victor Hugo P alts its of
the New York Public Library and Mr. Earl G. Swem of the William and
Mary College Library. A particular acknowledgment should be made to
Mr. Robert A. Hayes and Mr. Charles Fickus of the Maryland Histori-
cal Society staff for cheerful and patient acceptance of almost daily de-
mands on their attention. For courtesies extended both by correspondence
and in person thanks are owing to the librarians and staffs of the Library
of Congress; the Peabody Library, the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the
Maryland Diocesan Library, of Baltimore; the Maryland State Library
and the Land Office, of Annapolis; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
the Ridgway Branch of the Philadelphia Library Company, the Universi-
ty of Pennsylvania Library and the American Philosophical Society; the
New York Public Library, the New York Historical Society and the New
York Bar Association Library; the Boston Athenaum, Harvard College
Library, and the Massachusetts Historical Society; the American Anti-
quarian Society; the John Carter Brown Library and the Rhode Island
Historical Society.

An acknowledgment of indebtedness would be incomplete which failed
to comment on the spirit in which a difficult piece of typographical work
has been handled by Mr. Norman T. A. Munder and his associates, the

printers of the book. Each person in that establishment concerned in the

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