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
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| 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 |
| 1858 | First publication: “Think Again!” Harvard Magazine, Apr. |
| 1859 | Graduated (A.B.) from Harvard Temporary aide in U.S. Coast Survey, fall to spring ’60 |
| 1860 | Studied classification with Agassiz at Harvard, summer–fall |
| 1861 | Entered Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard Appointed regular aide in Coast Survey, 1 July |
| 1862 | Received graduate degree (A.M.) from Harvard Married Harriet Melusina Fay, 16 Oct. |
| 1863 | Graduated summa cum laude (Sc.B.) in Chemistry from Lawrence Scientific School |
| 1865 | Delivered Harvard lectures on “The Logic of Science,” spring Began Logic Notebook, 12 Nov.; last entry in Nov. ’09 |
| 1866 | Delivered Lowell Institute lectures on “The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis,” 24 Oct.–1 Dec. |
| 1867 | Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 30 Jan., where he presented five papers on logic throughout the year |
| 1868 | Wrote three anti-Cartesian papers for the Journal of Speculative Philosophy |
| 1869 | Wrote first of about 300 Nation reviews; last in Dec. ’08 Assistant at Harvard Observatory, Oct. ’69–Dec. ’72 Delivered Harvard lectures on “British Logicians,” Dec.–Jan. |
| 1870 | First Coast Survey assignment in Europe, 18 Jun. ’70–7 Mar. ’71 |
| 1872 | Founded Cambridge Metaphysical Club, Jan. In charge of Survey office, spring–summer Put in charge of pendulum experiments, beginning in Nov. Promoted to rank of Assistant in the Survey, 1 Dec. |
| 1875 | Second Coast Survey assignment in Europe, Apr. ’75–Aug. ’76 First official American delegate to the International Geodetic Association, Paris, 20–29 Sept. |
| 1876 | Separated from Melusina, Oct. |
| 1877 | Elected to National Academy of Sciences, 20 Apr. Third Coast Survey assignment in Europe, 13 Sept.–18 Nov. Represented U.S. at International Geodetic Association conference in Stuttgart, 27 Sept.–2 Oct. |
| 1878 | Photometric Researches published in Aug. |
| 1879–84 | Lecturer in logic at Johns Hopkins University |
| 1879 | First meeting of Johns Hopkins Metaphysical Club, 28 Oct. |
| 1880 |
Elected to London Mathematical Society, 11 Mar.
Fourth Coast Survey assignment in Europe, Apr.–Aug.
Addressed French Academy on value of gravity, 14 June
Designed and supervised construction of the first of four gravity pendulums bearing his name
Death of Peirce’s father, Benjamin, 6 Oct.
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