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In exploring Ruskin’s Venetian notebooks the team would like to thank the following: Dr James S. Dearden and Professor Robert Hewison for their pioneering work on the Stones of Venice materials; Professor Michael Wheeler who suggested the project in the first instance; Professor George P. Landow who introduced us to the field of hypertext in the early 1990s, during the preparation of our work for the Electronic Edition of Modern Painters. Professor Keith Hanley, Director of the Ruskin Centre at Lancaster University and Marion McClintock, Academic Registrar helped in the facilitation of this current project. Members of the weekly Research Seminar Group provided insights and feedback and have continued to be a valuable source for discussion. Professor Francis O’Gorman encouraged our participation in the Venice Conference at Leeds University in 2003. Thanks are also due to John and Margaret Dawson who first showed us the materials held at the Ruskin Museum Coniston and to the current Curator Vicky Slowe and Margaret Clunan a member of staff. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) provided a grant (RG/AN11322/APN18384) to carry our work forward and to make possible the photographic research in Venice. St Martin’s College Lancaster supported an earlier visit to the city, and the University of Lancaster also provided early funding for this work. Thanks also to Sonia Mason who typed the first electronic versions of the transcripts of notebooks M and M2 during the early stages of the project.
Stephen Wildman, Curator and Director of the Ruskin Library at Lancaster University provided support and encouragement throughout the duration of the project, and shared his expertise and intimate knowledge of the Ruskin Foundation collection. Staff within the Library and Reading Room, Rebecca Patterson and Diane Tyler have been unfailing in their help, whilst Jennifer Shepherd and Linda Moorhouse carried out the original scanning and production of the digitised images of library manuscript material.
In addition Sheila Bliss, Tessa Garside and Ann Haslam have given much support to this project over the years in which it has been ongoing.
We are also grateful to the following institutions with which we have worked: Lancaster University Library, St Martin’s College Library Lancaster (now part of the University of Cumbria), Brantwood Coniston, Ruskin Museum Coniston, Guild of St George Sheffield, Bodleian Library Oxford, Pierpont Morgan Library New York, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale, and the British Library London.
Finally we would like to thank The Ruskin Foundation, owners of the great collection housed in the Ruskin Library at Lancaster University. Their statement regarding copyright appears on the opening page of this edition.
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