SUNDRY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
During the composition of this story the writer has received
assistance from many sources. Individual acknowledgments have
been made privately. It is a pleasure to add public expression to
the following: to the Trustees of McGregor Fund for a grant
which has safeguarded the opportunity for concentration on this
project; to numerous members of the Staff of the University of
Virginia Library for friendly and effective help at many stages;
especially to Mrs. Lawrence Greaver for her patient struggle with
the writer's handwriting in the typing of two complete versions of
the text and of the index and one of the notes, and to the Library's
Publication Committee, Miss Savage, Mr. Dalton, and Mr. Wyllie,
for cheerful assumption of the tasks connected with publication
and distribution; to Dr. Dumas Malone for his magnanimous
response to the solicitation of the heads of the Library Staff that
he write a Foreword (which the bewildered and embarrassed but
deeply moved tenth librarian did not see until it was in its final
form); to Mr. Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., Dr. Edwin Morris Betts,
Mr. J. Malcolm Luck, Mr. Ralph Thompson, and the Meriden Gravure
Company for both counsel and performance in the matter of
the illustrations; to Mr. Charles Edward Moran, Jr., and Mr.
Mark Rinker of the University of Virginia Press for their personal
interest and tactful advice during the processes of printing;
and last, and most emphatic, to Jeannie Jenkins Clemons
for her unshaken faith and timely encouragements throughout
the long months of her librarian husband's absorption in these
memoirs of a Library. To her the completed book is dedicated.
