First, I want to thank all the little people...
Seriously, I have more than a few people to thank for their assistance.
Jack Lynch at the University of Pennsylvania for helping me get started and for providing much-appreciated encouragement along the way.
The members of the Eighteenth Century listserver discussion group for sharing their collective wisdom and humor.
Kitagaki Muneharu and Philip Williams, the authors of "Gulliver's Travels and Japan" and Amherst House, Doshisha University, its publisher, for giving me permission to reprint their essay.
The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley for giving me permission to reproduce pages from their 1726 Motte edition of the Travels.
The Librarians Association of the University of California, Santa Cruz division, for providing funds to have photographic prints made from The Bancroft collection.
Fred Ostrander for giving me his prized, personal copy of Swift's works.
And last but not least, Margaret Ostrander, not just another Internet widow.
