I am very grateful for the generous advice of the project’s advisory board: Julie Carlson (University of California, Santa Barbara), Diego Saglia (University of Parma), and David Taylor (University of Oxford).
I would also like to thank Sue Hodson and Steve Hindle at the Huntington Library for their enthusiasm and support for the project and the associated conference. Kathryn Johnson at the British Library was also very helpful. I am grateful to Yuhki Takebayashi for some research assistance towards the end of the project. Olga Rachello and Kenneth Clarke (University of York) provided some much needed Italian language expertise.
Adam May from Language and Mat May from Fusio were responsible for the website design and functionality while Juliusz Filipowski from Trinity’s High Performance Computing Centre expertly managed the transition to Trinity’s servers and did much of the uploading of material and corrections. My sincere thanks to all for their patience and help with the technical aspects of the project.
Adam Matthew Digital (Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage) and Gale Cengage (Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture) very generously supplied the project with the high resolution scans of the various manuscripts. They were very enthusiastic supporters of this research right from the outset and I am very grateful to them, particularly to Bill Pidduck (AMD) and Marc Cormier (Gale).
My primary thanks are due to the European Commission and their generous support, through the Marie Curie programme, of this research.