Acknowledgements
Funders
MIT Libraries
The Seaver Institute
With special thanks to:
Students, Faculty, and Staff at MIT
Thomas F. Peterson
Mary Hurley
MIT Video Productions
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
The American Academy in Rome
The John Donne Society
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Students on the King’s College London MA Early Modern English Literature: Text and Transmission
King's College London English Department
Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Cultures of Knowledge, University of Oxford
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
The British Academy
OUP John Fell Fund, University of Oxford
The Michael Zilkha Fund
Heather Wolfe
Students on the King’s College London undergraduate module “Unlocking Early Modern Letters”
We are particularly grateful to the following individuals and institutions for supporting our work by becoming early adopters of the terminologies and techniques of letterlocking in their approaches to research, conservation, and teaching:
Dr Nadine Akkerman, University Lecturer, Leiden University
Dr Rebekah Ahrendt, Assistant Professor, Music Dept, Yale Univeristy
Arno Bosse, Digital Project Manager, Cultures of Knowedge, University of Oxford
Dr Shira Brisman, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr Andrea Clark, Curator of Early Modern Historical Manuscripts at the British Library
Dennis Flynn, the Oxford Letters of John Donne
Dr Stephanie Frampton, Associate Professor of Classical Literature, MIT
Dr Christopher Fletcher, Professorial Fellow, Library Fellow, and Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library
Professor Deborah Harkness, Professor of History, University of Southern California
Dr Gabriel Heaton, Director, Books and Manuscripts, Sotheby's London
Dr Oliver Herford, Birmingham Fellow in English Literature of the Long 19th Century, School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham
Professor Howard Hotson, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Dr Arnold Hunt, Lecturer in Early Modern History, Cambridge University
Andrew Honey, Senior conservator at the Bodleian Libraries, Univeristy of Oxford
Dr E.C.M. Ineke Huysman, researcher, Department of History of Science and Scholarship, Huygens Institute
Dr Kathryn James, Curator, Early Modern & Osborn Collections, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University Library
Dr Samuli Kaislaniemi, Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English, University of Helsinki
Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor, Cultures of Knowledge, Univeristy of Oxford
Dr David van der Linden, NWO Veni Fellow and Lecturer in History, University of Groningen
Chela Metzger, Library Conservation Center, UCLA
Dr Leslie Morris, Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Dr John Overholt, Curator of the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr Samuel Johnson and of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Dr Henk Porck, Conservation scientist and Curator of Paperhistorical Collection at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands
Dr Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of History, University of Southern California
Dr Kirsten Stirling, Section d’anglais, Batiment Anthropole, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr William Stoneman, Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Dr Alison Wiggins, Senior Lecturer, English Language and Linguistics, University of Glasgow
Professor Peter McCullough, Sohmer Fellow, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Dr Dianne Mitchell, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Dr Michael Webb, Keeper of Early Modern Manuscripts, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Dr Heather Wolfe, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library
Professor Henry Woudhuysen, Rector, Lincoln College, University of Oxford