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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Since first reading Charles Lamb’s account of silent prayer in ‘Imperfect Sympathies’ and finding my curiosity so piqued as to go in search of Quaker poets of the Romantic era, this project has grown to absorb considerable amounts of (mostly pleasurable!) time and attention. There are inevitably many acknowledgements.

As it has developed, I have always appreciated the support and ideas of my immediate colleagues at both campuses of the University of Exeter: I owe a general debt to the Penryn Humanities department, but would offer particular thanks (in no particular order) to Jim Kelly, Tim Cooper, Jason Hall, Kate Hext, John Plunkett, Andrew Rudd and Joseph Crawford. For invaluable aid in the archival process, I’d like to thank Elly Babbedge; for research support, Annie Sheen; and for broader help with the project, Ivy Wrogg. Jeremy Greenwood and Melanie Bill both aided a research visit to Woodbridge during which I got to walk in Barton’s footsteps and visit many places mentioned in these poems. My anonymous reviewers, across two stages of manuscript preparation, gave helpful and incisive feedback, and of course I am also grateful to all at Anthem Press.

Preparing this volume has involved the help of many archives and institutions, and I’d like to thank the staff at the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham; the British Library; Special Collections at the University of Delaware; the Devon and Exeter Institution, the libraries and Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Exeter; the Gainsborough’s House Museum; Special Collections at the University of Leeds; Senate House Library at the University of London; the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester; the Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation in Mänttä, Finland; the New York Public Library and the curators of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and his Circle; the Library of the Society of Friends in London; and the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College.

All substantial reproduction of text within this volume is of previously published material where the relevant term of copyright has expired. All archival material has been cited with the permission of the holding archive.

Map 1. Map of Barton’s Suffolk.