Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America (39 page)

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Sir Walter Ralegh’s adventurers were instructed to keep journals of their exploits in the New World. Many of these priceless manuscripts were lost or mislaid over time, and have only been rediscovered and printed in recent years.
I owe a debt of gratitude to Professor David Beers Quinn, who has devoted a lifetime’s study to Ralegh’s colonies. Without his magnificent
Roanoke Voyages
—a collection of almost every surviving manuscript—this book could not have been written. I am also grateful to him for kindly inviting me to his Liverpool home to share his encyclopaedic knowledge.
I received much help from experts in America. I am particularly grateful to Tom Shields, editor of the
Roanoke Colonies Research
Newsletter,
for generously sparing time to show me Roanoke Island. Thank you also to John Gillikin and Steve Harrison of the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, to the staff at the Outer Banks History Center, and to librarians at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Thank you to William Kelso, chief archaeologist of the Jamestown Rediscovery Project, for guiding me around the recent excavations, and to curator Beverly Straube for allowing me access to the remarkable artefacts that have been unearthed.
In London, I am deeply grateful to Paul Whyles for poring over the manuscript at short notice and suggesting many much-needed changes. Thank you also to Frank Barrett, Wendy Driver, Simon Heptinstall, Roland Philipps, Maggie Noach, Jill Hughes, and John Glusman; to Mrs. Angela Down, owner of Hayes Barton, Ralegh’s childhood home; and to the staffs of the British Library and the Institute of Historical Research. A particular thank you to the ever helpful librarians of the London Library.
Lastly, I wish to thank Alexandra for her support and encouragement, and Madeleine and Héloïse for their tea-break entertainments.
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Elizabethan spelling has been retained for quotations wherever possible, but in a few instances only a modern transcription of the original text was available. Grammar and names have been standardised, and certain spellings have occasionally been adjusted to clarify the sense (e.g.,
there
or
theyre
has been changed where appropriate to their).
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