Papers relating to Vita Sackville-West and her immediate family are scattered across the globe. I am particularly grateful to Cherry Dunham Williams of the Lilly Library of Indiana University in Bloomington, and to her staff, for their help and kindness during my visits to the library, as well as to the staffs of: the Berg Collection, New York Public Library; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, Texas A & M University Library; The London Library; the Neilson Library, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College; the library of St John’s College, Cambridge; the University of British Colombia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections; the University of Waterloo Library, Doris Lewis Rare Book Room; and Washington State University Libraries.
Immense thanks are due to my tremendous agent, Georgina Capel, my editor, Arabella Pike, and her colleagues at William Collins, Kate Tolley and Katherine Josselyn. My parents have been as wonderfully supportive as ever, and I am grateful, too, to my father-in-law. Above all, thanks are due to my beloved and beautiful wife Gráinne – for inspiration, encouragement, patience and so much love.
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