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I wish to acknowledge the help of the following in preparing this essay: Lilly Stone Lievsay and the staff of the Folger Library; Peter VanWingen, Head, Reference Section, Division of Rare Books and Special Collections, Library of Congress; Timothy Hobbs, Sub-Librarian, and the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, for permission to reproduce a letter from the W. A. Wright papers (Add MS b.6110); Anita Morse, Law Librarian, University of Wisconsin—Madison, for locating the copyright records of the New York Southern District Court; Professor John Hazel Smith of Brandeis University for information about his copy of Staunton's edition; and Laura V. Monti, Keeper of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Boston Public Library, Dr. Paula Glatzer of Life magazine, and Katherine Knowles of the Embassy of France in Washington, for providing descriptions of parts of Verplanck's edition in the Barton Collection, the New York Public Library, and the Library of Congress respectively.