Acknowledgments
The Melville Electronic Library expresses its gratitude to the following institutions for their support:
National Endowment for the Humanities, for its Digital Humanities Start-Up grant (2008) and three Scholarly Editions grants (2009-2011, 2011-2014, and 2014-2017)
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library, for the conservation of Melville manuscript leaves and to the library’s Robert G. Newman Library Leaders Fund (2009) for funding the digitization of each leaf
Digital Research Center, Hofstra University, for technical development and maintenance
New York Public Library, for permission to transcribe Melville documents located in the Gansevoort-Lansing Collection of the Manuscript and Archives Division
The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, for access to Adaptation materials
Berkshire Athenaeum, for supplying digital images of manuscripts and art works in its Melville Collection
The Duncan Osborne Collection of Herman Melville. Special Collections—A. Frank Smith, Jr., Library Center. Southwestern University. Georgetown, Texas, for digital images of art works
Research Library of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, for supplying digital images of art works in the Reese Collection and of print versions of Melville works
The Melville Archive, of the Melville Society, located in the Research Library of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, for permission to use its holdings