Acknowledgements

The book is the result of research which started in 2015. It grew in the process of writing as numerous suggestions were kindly given to me by friends, scholars, institutions and websites whom I can but only respectfully thank.

Francesca BARBINI | Tom SHIPPEY | Jay JOHNSTONE | Douglas A. ANDERSON | Åke BERTENSTAM | Cathleen BLACKBURN | Mahdî BRECQ | Pieter COLLIER | Gianluca COMASTRI | Giovanni C. COSTABILE | Ryszard DERDZINSKI | Jeremy EDMONDS | Eduardo FERREIRA | Dimitra FIMI | Jason FISHER | John GARTH | Peter GILLIVER | Wayne G. HAMMOND | Carl F. HOSTETTER | Enrico INTROINI | Bradford Lee EDEN | Gabriele MARCONI | Jeremy H. MARSHALL | Catherine McILWAINE | Wim MEEUWS | Aaron O’BRIEN | Elena ROSSI | Alan REYNOLDS | Dario SADERI | Giuseppe SCATTOLINI | Christina SCULL | Guglielmo SPIRITO | Charles STYLES | Priscilla TOLKIEN.

Penelope BAKER, College Archivist at the Exeter College (Archives and Special Collections), Oxford | Colin HARRIS, Department of Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford | Jocelyn ENGLISH, Deputy Librarian, English Faculty Library | Alison HARVEY, Archivist, Cardiff University | Aaron M. LISEC, Research Specialist, Special Collections Research Center Morris Library Southern Illinois University | Sandra NISIN, Pour les fonds patrimoniaux, Bibliothèque ALPHA, Université de Liège | Judith PRIESTMAN, Curator, Modern Literary Manuscript Collections, Bodleian Library, | Alan VAUGHAN HUGHES, Head of Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University | Julia WALWORTH,  Fellow Librarian at the Merton College, Oxford