I wish to express my deep appreciation to Professor Arthur Mizener for all that he has done in connection with this study, and in the past seven years. I owe thanks also to Professor George Healey and to Professor Francis Mineka for their help.
Mr. Edward Naumburg, Jr. of New York City was most generous in making his fine collection of Ford Madox Ford manu-scripts and books available to me. He was also kind enough to obtain permission from Mrs. Janice Biala Brustlein for me to have access to certain Ford letters now in the Princeton University Library. For these letters I am also indebted to Mr. Richard Ludwig of Princeton University, who provided me with copies of them. I want to thank Mr. George T. Keating for allowing me to quote letters from Ford which are in his possession, and for being so kind as to carry on a considerable correspondence with me. Mr. Richard Hughes provided interesting information which connects his High Wind in Jamaica with the Conrad-Ford Romance. Mr. Dan Laurence went to considerable trouble to provide me with information concerning George Bernard Shaw and his possible connection with The Torch, the anarchist magazine published by Ford’s cousins, the Rossetti children. Mr. João de Lucena, Minister-Counselor of the Portuguese Embassy in Washington, D. C., was most helpful in supplying information about Jaime Batalha Reis, who Ford says is connected with Romance.
I am also indebted to the British Museum for making microfilm copies of Conrad letters available to me, and to J. M. Dent & Company for granting permission to print them. The staff of the Rare Book Room of the Yale University Library was most helpful and gracious in allowing me to use the magnificent Keating Conrad collection.
Finally, a personal word to those whom I call Minisino, Kib, and Tommie: to each I owe more than I can ever repay, or adequately express.