Acknowledgements
Dedication
To the late Professor Joseph Goering, professor emeritus, department of History, University of Toronto. In gratitude for his sustained interest, luminous intellect, and kind help in all my work.
Acknowledgements
I thank Sir Guy Acland for giving his permission to publish Henry Wentworth Acland’s letters. Dr. Acland’s illustrations as well as the transcription of his letters by his wife, Sarah Acland, are reproduced courtesy of Library and Archives Canada. Photographs are also reproduced courtesy of Library and Archives Canada with the exception of the Acland family photo which was published in Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photography and is reproduced courtesy of the author, Giles Hudson. A scene on the Saguenay River painted by Sir Edmund Walker Head is reproduced courtesy of the Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. The map of the itinerary of the tour is reproduced with the permission of the University of Toronto Press from its publication of Ian Radforth’s Royal Spectacle The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States (2012). I am also personally grateful to Ian Radforth, professor emeritus, department of History, University of Toronto, both for his initial encouragement and for his generosity in reading the digital version. I am similarly indebted to Susan Glover, professor emerita, department of English, Laurentian University, for reading the digital version of the book and for her helpful suggestions. Peter Ross, Caitlin Murphy, and Julia Murphy also contributed valuable suggestions. Deep thanks are owed to family and to the several friends who accompanied me on an extended and sometimes faltering path. Of ultimate importance is Jane Kidd for her unfailing sense of excellence and her selfless generosity in graciously undertaking the online publication of Henry Acland’s letters. Without her, this publication would not have been realized.