The preparation of this guide was made possible by grant funds provided by the Research Resources Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of a four-year project to improve bibliographic access to and control of significant Labadie Collection holdings.  Project staff in the Labadie Collection created an online bibliographic database containing entries for more thatn 6,000 serial titles and approximately 18,000 pamphlets, while staff in the Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Historical Library, prepared the "Guide to Manuscripts" and processed six important manuscript collections.
    I wish to thank Thomas E. Powers, Archivist and Curator of Manuscripts, Bentley Historical Library, for supervising the mansucript component of the project, and the following members of his staff: Nancy Bartlett, Anne Frantill, Karen M. Mason, Kathryn Stallard, and Eric Uhl for processing and preparing descriptive inventories for the records of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and the papers of Oakley Johnson, Laurance Labadie, William A. Reuben, Martha Vicinus, and Mary Hays Weik.  Special thanks are tendered to Ms. Mason and Ms. Stallard for researching and compiling the "Guide to Manuscripts in the Labadie Collection"; to Mr. Edward C. Weber, Head, Labadie Collection; to Mrs. Kathryn L. Beam, Mauscript Librarian, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, and Kris Kiesling, her assistant, for editing this final version of the Guide for publication and compiling the index; and to Julie Nelson Davis for text and index preparation.

R. Ann Oakey, Librarian
Labadie Collection
Project Director