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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To a large extent, I have depended on existing bibliographies to arrive at this checklist of Proust holdings at the University of Illinois, but there has not been time to check all of them. My debt is especially great to Douglas W. Alden for use of his working bibliography on Proust, and to J. Theodore Johnson, Jr., for the part he contributed to it. Philip Kolb, in addition to giving advice for the listing of manuscripts, has passed works on to me from time to time. I wish to thank John J. Bateman and the School of Humanities for encouragement and financial aid for other work, from which this project benefited; here too I recognize the work of Robert D. Frye. Further encouragement, and of course the means for publication, came from Robert B. Downs, Lucien W. White, and Robert W. Oram. Bruce H. Mainous and the Unit for Foreign Language Study and Research came to my aid when the materiał was ready to be typed. Harriett Weatherford performed this last task courageously, competently, with infinite patience, and never a complaint. A large number of the University of Illinois Library Staff helped me in one way or another, and to them I express my grateful thanks? in particular, I wish to thank Marilyn M. Satterlee, Betty Croft, Wendell A. Barbour, Jean H. Seyfarth, Ernst Wolff, Martha Landis, N. Frederick Nash, Carl Parmenter, Eva F. Benton, John K. Aikin, and their staffs, as well as Scott Bennett, whose suggestions came in the finał stages of the work. Finally I thank those colleagues and friends who have given me copies of their works, or have contributed in other ways, as by calling to my attention out-of-the-way items on Proust.

Larkin B. Price

University of Illinois, Urbana