We are most grateful to the following Institutions and Collections for making available manuscripts and other materials in their care. Locations are in the UK unless otherwise noted.
| AAA | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA |
| AGO | E.P. Taylor Library & Archives, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada |
| Arizona | Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA |
| Ashmolean | Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford |
| Beinecke | Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Berlin | Werkbundarchiv, Museum der Dinge, Berlin, Germany |
| Birmingham | City of Birmingham Archives |
| BL | The British Library, London (major holdings include the Ricketts and Shannon Papers and the Michael Field Papers, presented by Thomas Sturge Moore, his widow and their descendants; also the Gordon Bottomley Papers and important collections of several of Rickettsâs other correspondents) |
| BM | The British Museum, London |
| Bodleian | Bodleian Library, University of Oxford |
| Boston | Boston Athenæum, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Bristol | University of Bristol Theatre Collection |
| Brown | John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| Brussels | Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, Belgium |
| Cambridge | Cambridge University Library |
| Carlisle | Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle |
| Carl Woodring Collection | Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA |
| Clark | Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Cleveland | Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| Cornell | Carl A. Groch Library, Cornell University, New York, USA |
| Delaware | Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA |
| Edinburgh | Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh |
| Fitzwilliam | Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge |
| Glasgow | Archives and Special Collections, University of Glasgow |
| Houghton | Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| HRC | Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA |
| Huis van het boek | Huis van Het Boek, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| Huntington | The Huntington Library, San Marino, CAlifornia, USA |
| I Tatti, Florence | I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy |
| KCC | Kingâs College, Cambridge |
| Lambeth | Lambeth Palace Library, London |
| Leeds | University of Leeds |
| Leighton House | Leighton House, London |
| Library of Congress | Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA |
| Literatuurmuseum | Literatuurmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| Liverpool | Liverpool Central Library |
| MAG | Manchester Art Gallery |
| Manchester | John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester |
| Mannheim | Marchivum, Mannheim, Germany |
| McNay | McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| MOMA | Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| NAL | National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
| NG | Research Centre, National Gallery, London |
| NGI | National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland |
| NGC | Library and Archives, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada |
| NLI | National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland |
| NYPL | New York Public Library, New York, USA |
| Oregon | Knight Library, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA |
| Paris | Bibliothèque de LâInstitut de France, Paris. France |
| Paulton Collection | Paulton Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| Princeton | Princeton University, New Jersey, USA |
| Rijksmuseum | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Rutgers | Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA |
| SH | Senate House Special Collections Library, University of London |
| Stony Brook | Stony Brook University Libraries, Stony Brook, New York, USA |
| Tate | Tate Library and Archives, Tate Britain, London |
| TCD | Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland |
| Temple | Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| UCD | James Joyce Library, University College Dublin, Ireland |
| UCLA | University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Warwick | University of Warwick |
We owe sincere thanks to Leonie Sturge-Moore and the heirs of Charmian OâNeil, joint literary executors for the unpublished papers of Thomas Sturge Moore (which also encompasses the papers of Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and Michael Field). We are grateful for the interest and encouragement they expressed in this project at an early stage, and for agreeing to the publication of all archival and copyright material. We are also indebted to Scirard Lancelyn Green, Gordon Bottomleyâs literary executor, and to Edmund Gray, for giving special access to the unpublished papers of Laurence Binyon.
We have also received invaluable assistance and individual kindnesses from a large number of people, both friends and strangers, including in a number of cases permission to include letters in their private collections. We are grateful in very many ways to the following:
John Ashwell (a family descendant, who kindly provided a family tree which helped in identifying relatives on Rickettsâs fatherâs side); Karen Attar and Emily Chu (Special Collections, Senate House Library); Michael Barclay; Philip Bishop (for advice on the Thomas B. Mosher correspondence, and for a transcription of a Mosher letter to Michael Field); Cécile Bouet and Agnes Rico (Bibliothèque de lâInstitut de France, Paris); Marisa Bourgoin (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC); Alison Bye; James Capobianco, Mary Haegert, Marouen Jedoui and Maya Terhune (Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA); Lisa Caprino and Brian Moeller (The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA); Julie Carlsen, Yesenia Castro Phillip Cosgrove, Nailah Holmes and Michelle McCarthy-Behler (New York Public Library, NY); Tanya Chebotarev (Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, NY); Frances Clarke and James Harte (Special Collections, National Library of Ireland, Dublin); Heather G. Cole and Robin Ness (Special Collections, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI); Selina Collard (James Joyce Library, University College Dublin); Peter Collister; Marissa Corona, Simon Elliott and Neil Hodge (UCLA Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA); Joëlle Daems (Rijksmuseum Library, Amsterdam); Paul Delaney; Carina Don (Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, NJ); Charles Doran (Special Collections, Princeton University, NJ); Ellen Dutton, Joseph Massey, Karen Mee and Helen Price (Special Collections, University of Leeds); Will Evans and Mary Warnement (Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA); Dara Flinn and Gabby Parker (Special Collections, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX); Wayne Fortune and Victoria Gray (Lambeth Palace Library); Daniele Fratini (I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy); Melanie Gardner (Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust, Carlisle); Valerie Gauthier (Library and Archives, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa); Ellen Gage (Study Room, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge); Adrian Glew (Tate Library and Archive, Tate Britain); Anna Gruetzner Robins (who generously shared fresh findings and sources gathered from her own work on the Vale years); Dan Guerrero (McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX); Steven Halliwell; Colin Harrison, Caroline Palmer and Katherine Wodehouse (Western Art Print Room, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford); Cecile van der Harten (Head, Image & Registration Department, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam); Carl Hernvig and Mikael Műller (Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen); Steven Hobbs; Hannah Hillen (John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester); Christopher Hodgson (for information relating to CHSâs design of a baptismal font cover at St Botolph in Quarrington, Lincolnshire); Danielle Howarth, Elizabeth Quarmby Lawrence and Stephen Willis (Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh); Marco Keiller (Research Centre, National Gallery, London); Marissa Kings (University of California, Los Angeles for images from the Clark Library); Mark Samuels Lasner and Olivia DeClark (Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware, Newark, DE); Tracey Lazarus (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea); Ton Leenhouts; Aisling Lockhart and Sharon Sutton (Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin); David de Lorenzo (Special Collections and University Archives, Knight Library, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR); Christopher McCall (for information about the Charles McCall papers); Patricia McGuire (Archives, Kingâs College, Cambridge); Katy Mackin and Fiona M. Neale (Archives and Special Collections, University of Glasgow Library); Marilyn Nazar (E.P. Taylor Library & Archives, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada); Eisha Neely (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Carl A. Groch Library, Cornell University, NY); Tim Noakes (Department of Special Collections, Stanford University, CA); Edward Nudelman (relating to letters to Francis Ernest Jackson); Kristen Nyitray (Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries, NY); Caroline Ricketts (a family descendant); Samuel Sales (Special Collections Reading Rooms, Weston Library, Bodleian Library, Oxford); Martin Sanders (Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick); Elizabeth Savage (Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts, Cambridge University Library); Huug Schipper (Studio Tint, for assistance with the illustrations); Frank Sharp; Alex von Sinner (a family descendant); Marja Smolenaars; Nicholas Stanley-Price (historian of the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome, for information relating to Antonio Cippico); Jill Sullivan (University of Bristol Theatre Collection); Julie K. Tanaka (ASU Library, Arizona State University, AZ); Natalie Toy (Collections & Interpretation Department, York Minster Library & Archive); Jessica Tubis and Timothy Young (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT); Maureen Watry (especially for images of some early letters); Kate Wilkie and Polly Haas (descendants of Cecil Lewis); Hannah Williamson (Manchester Art Gallery); Kristen Wilson (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, TX).
We are grateful to a number of people for their interest and who have assisted in seeing this work through to publication, including the Series Editor, Lisa Kuitert (University of Amsterdam), and at Brill, Melissa Allieri, Alessandro Gilberto, Wendel Scholten, Loes Schouten and Wilma de Weert.