Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank those who helped us during the production of this project.
We would like to thank the McNitt and Cress families for keeping the letters in pristine condition, allowing us to look into the past.
We would like to thank John Randolph, our professor through History 207: Publishing the Past, for teaching us the archival principles and for his supervision and expertise while we developed this project.
We would like to thank Beth Ann Williams for her advice and edits and for supervising our progress throughout the editorial process.
We would also like to thank Krista Gray and Katie Lucas from the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections for suggesting the McNitt Papers as a project option, making the archive available to us, and providing aid and supplemental help throughout our research into the project.
Finally, we would like to thank the staff of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library's Digitization Services, for producing the high-quality scans of these materials and making them available to us.
