Acknowledgements
(Jim McLaverty)
Cambridge University Press
Linda Bree, Publisher for Literature at CUP, has been a constant source of wisdom and practical help. From the start, she saw the Archive as a support for, rather than rival to, the print edition, and has been instrumental in obtaining the necessary agreements from the Press. We are also grateful to Maartje Scheltens for her encouragement.
General Editors
Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins have always taken a warm interest in the preparation of the Archive. We are grateful to them for their support.
Herbert Davis’s Edition of Swift’s Prose Writings
The Cambridge Edition is designed to replace Herbert Davis’s edition of Swift’s prose, but it is not complete. We have, therefore, been deeply indebted to Davis’s work on Swift’s texts as the basis of the preparation of the archive. It is work that we believe is generally undervalued – an extraordinary achievement by a scholar working alone without modern resources.
Cambridge University Library
We are grateful to Dr Jill Whitelock for her patience and hard work.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London
The archive could not have been made publicly available without the know-how, good advice, and planning of Elena Pierazzo and the CCH team (especially Marilyn Deegan, Paul Spence, and Paul Vetch). They have shared in the planning of the archive as well as its delivery.
Keele University
The grant supporting the Archive has been run from Keele. Dr Nat Golden, the Manager of the Research Institute for the Humanities, has been a constant source of support and good advice, and his assistant Louise Cunningham has been unfailingly helpful. In the Finance Department, Chris Boden has been generous with time and information.
Oxford University
During the final months of the project its administration was transferred to the English Faculty at Oxford University. The Oxford research fellow, Dr. Paddy Bullard, is especially grateful to Paul Burns and Hayley Morris, successive academic administrators at the faculty, for their help and support throughout the life of the project. Thanks are also due George Newman and the staff of the St. Cross Building, where the Oxford branch of the project kept its office between 2005 and 2010.
Research Assistants
A small team of research assistants in Oxford, several of them postgraduate students with a distinct academic interest in Swift's work, have given support to the Jonathan Swift Archive during the last year of its preparation. We are especially grateful to James Womersley, Kate Womersley, Karen Collis, Hannah Field and Hannah Kirby for their work on digital texts.
Donald D.Eddy
Don Eddy generously gave his uncle’s books to the project. They included a set of Davis’s prose works that has proved to be of great service to the Keele team.