of poetry scholars.
The strong institutional support provided by Indiana University, our host institution, continues to make production of these volumes possible. Former IUPUI Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of Faculties William M. Plater and former Deans Herman Saatkamp and Robert White of the School of Liberal Arts led a successful campaign to establish the Peirce Project as a major component of the Institute for American Thought. Our current Dean, William A. Blomquist, shares his predecessors’ conviction that our operation is central to the School’s mission, and we are grateful for his staunch backing. The University’s steady support for the core staff positions of the Peirce Edition has been instrumental in securing continuous federal and private-sector grant commitments during the period that this volume was researched, edited and published. The edition’s technical staff members, who have made in-house volume preparation a reality, have been supported to a large degree through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are especially grateful to many individuals who have demonstrated their support by making private contributions through the Indiana University Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities matching grant challenges. Among them we owe special marks of gratitude to the late Arthur Burks and his wife Alice, to Emily Maverick, Janice Deledalle-Rhodes, Paul and Catherine Nagy, and Charls and Claire Pearson. Gail Plater, Assistant Dean for Development & External Affairs in the School of Liberal Arts, has worked tirelessly to coordinate matching grants and develop new fundraising initiatives for volume production. We thank Gail and her Associate Director, Gen Shaker, for spotlighting the Peirce Edition in annual university fund drives and launching new development initiatives.
Acknowledgement is due as well to the Harvard University Department of Philosophy for permission to use the original manuscripts, and to the officers of the Houghton Library, especially Manuscripts Curator Leslie Morris, for their cooperation regarding the Charles S. Peirce Papers. We owe a great deal of thanks as well to Jennie Rathbun and Susan Halpert of the Houghton Reading Room staff, who coordinated several of our proofreading trips to the Harvard Peirce papers. Jennie Rathbun also worked (with the assistance of Tom Ford) to arrange and process the photographic orders for the Harvard manuscript illustrations in this volume.
Research for volume 8 brought us into the period when Peirce began to write for the Monist and Open Court journals edited by Dr. Paul Carus for Edward Hegeler’s Open Court Company in LaSalle, Illinois. The archives of these philosophical journals are now in the Special Collections Research Center of the Morris Library of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, and we are grateful to former Special Collections Dean David Koch and his successor Director Pam Hackbart-Dean, as well as to archivists Katie Salzmann and Karen Drickamer, for arranging access and permissions to publish from Peirce’s submitted manuscripts. Diane Worrell of Special Collections was instrumental in providing electronic images for the volume’s Monist series manuscript illustrations.
Special thanks go to many individual scholars who have provided important research support, including Webb Dordick, who worked with our proofreading teams on location at the Houghton and provided general bibliographical research assistance in the Houghton and other Harvard libraries; Professor José Vericat, for assistance in identifying the editions of reference books used by Peirce; to the Interlibrary Loan department of IUPUI’s University Library for facilitating our bibliographical research; to graduate assistants Tara Morrall and Michelle Boardman, who helped significantly with the electronic aspects of volume production, and Kelly Tully-Needler, who started out as a graduate assistant before joining the Peirce Edition’s full-time staff for a two-year stint; to student assistants Brandy Yeager, Somer Taylor, and Stephen J. Reynolds who helped proofread the volume; and to Adam A. Kovach and Jack Musselman of the Department of Philosophy, Indiana University (Bloomington), who are now pursuing postdoctoral careers. More distant scholars have also provided help with specific selections, including Professors William B. Jensen and Charles Seibert, University of Cincinnati, who worked with Peirce’s review of “The Periodic Law”; Dr. Irving Anellis, for annotations related to several logic selections; Professor Kelly Parker, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, for his work with Peirce’s Monist paper on “The Law of Mind”; Professor James Wible, University of New Hampshire, who advised on Peirce’s Nation review of Pearson’s Grammar of Science; Professor Saap Mansfeld, University of Utrecht, for contributions to “The Architecture of Theories”; Daniel Rellstab, University of Bern, Switzerland, Mathias Girel, University of Paris I, Sorbonne, and Professor Fritz Nagel, a Bernoulli Edition editor, for annotations research involving various Monist selections.
Eight individuals provided important background research and advice as we edited Peirce’s novella “Embroidered Thessaly”: Professor Thomas Acton, University of Greenwich, for his assistance with Peirce’s use of the Romani language; Professors Robert and Susan Sutton of IUPUI, Professor Kiriake Xerohemona, Florida International University, Niki Watts of TransLexis Corporation, and Professors Sara F. Barrena and Joaquin Albaycin of the University of Navarra, Spain, for detailed information on Greek culture and Greek language during Peirce’s sojourn in Thessaly; and independent scholar Thom Carlson, who attributed a key editorial by Peirce that helped establish a date for Peirce’s later phase of work on the Thessalian novella.
We are indebted to the Texas Tech University Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism (ISP) for permission to use duplicates of its annotated photocopy of the Harvard Peirce papers. Professor Kenneth L. Ketner, director of the ISP, also provided microfilm reels of the New York Evening Post archives that enabled us to confirm and examine seldom-seen reprints of Peirce’s Nation reviews from this period. Members of the Charles S. Peirce Society, as well as the editors of the Society’s Transactions, have been a constant source of support and scholarly information. Although Peirce’s use of the typewriter diminished significantly as his work with the Coast Survey drew to a close, we nonetheless found the original Hammond typewriter documentation provided by Professor Peter Weil of the University of Delaware important as we analyzed Peirce’s typescripts of the period. We are also grateful to Professor Richard Polt of Xavier University (Cincinnati) for extending our knowledge of the Hammond machine and its inventor. The Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE) continues to be of great assistance to the series, and we owe thanks to former CSE co-chair Professor Morris Eaves, University of Rochester, for coordinating the seal inspection, and to current chair David Nicholls, University of Southampton, and committee member Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California, for finalizing it. We are especially grateful to Dr. David S. Shields, McClintock Professor of Southern Letters, University of South Carolina, for conducting the inspection on behalf of the CSE.
We are also grateful to the contributing editors listed on the series page of this volume for the specialized scholarship they brought to bear on many of the selections. Special thanks go to our former technical editor Leah Cummins Guinn, who transcribed, corrected, and text-encoded many of the volume 8 selections. The executive support of Martha Rujuwa and administrative assistance of Kara Peterson have been essential behind-the-scenes factors in our work. Throughout the period of volume preparation, we were fortunate to have the expert counsel of the late Arthur Burks of the University of Michigan and Don Cook of Indiana University, Bloomington, emeriti professors who have served many years as advisory editors for the Peirce Project, and Dr. Thomas L. Short, who has provided outstanding support as Advisory Board chair from January 2001 through February 2009. The late Max Fisch devoted half a century to Peirce research, and his books and papers now form the archival foundation of the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI. His work and inspiration live on through this research facility and through the work of the editors who call it home.
Chronology
| (Years of W8 period in boldface type) | |
| 1839 | Born in Cambridge, Mass., to Benjamin and Sarah Hunt (Mills) Peirce, 10 Sept. |
| 1847–50 | Worked his way through Liebig’s method of chemical analysis |
