Lidia

The assistance, over the years, ofDr Andre Vedrine ofLyon, France, has been invaluable. Dr Vedrine generously gave ofhis time and effort, gathering information about Lidia Zamenhof in France and locating people who had known her. It was largely through his efforts that I was able to find out so much about the period Lidia spent in France. The Esperantists of France were extremely helpful, sending me letters, reminiscences and photographs. I must mention in particular the Esperantists of Lyon and Villeurbanne, whose kindness, hospitality and enthusiasm showed me at once why Lidia came to feel that Lyon was a second home: Blanche Clavier, Pierre Dehan, Yvonne Gallon, Raymond Gonin and Mrs Gonin, Cecile Pral, Rene Lemaire, Gabriel and Marie Antoinette 'Olga' Eyssautier, Dr Andre Vedrine and Ida Vedrine. Others who, thanks to the efforts ofDr Vedrine, contributed valuable information werejean Amouroux, Felicien Baronnet, Giselle Baudry, Paule Raynaud Delafouilhouze, E. Caille, Georges Cau, Marcel Delcourt, Andree Dessapt, Vidal Gaston, Jean Gibaux, Andre Gilles, Antoinette Guigues, Roland Jossinet and L. Robert.

I am also grateful to the many others, from many countries, who kindly allowed me access to their personal letters, photographs and reminiscences, and who made suggestions and provided other assistance, including Hans Bakker, Mies Bakker-Smith, MarcBakker, Isaj Dratwer, Alice Dudley, Elcore Ebersole, Anna Grossmann, Dr Hartmut Grossmann, Gigi Harabagiu, Christian Haug, Marion Hofman, Adolf Holzhaus, Jan Jasion, Luise Lappinger, Christian Lauridsen, Anthony A. Lee, Helene and Martin Leonard, Doris Lohse, Irmgard Macco, Margot Miessler Malkin, Samuel E. Martin, Louise Baker Matthias, Ursula Mŭhlschlegel, Melinda Ojermark, Anna Pollinger, Margaret Ruhe, Dr Charles E. Simon; Don Slocum, Lee D.

Stern, Ronald Taherzadeh, Henk Thien and Steve Tomlin. I would like to express my deep appreciation to Eugen Rytenberg for his invaluable contributions.

I was grateful for the opportunity to consult the collections of the British Library as well as the library of the British Esperanto Association, where the staff were very kind and helpful; and the libraries of the University of Geneva, Switzerland; Stanford University; the University of Califomia, Los Angeles; the University of California, San Diego; the Simon Wiesenthal Library at Yeshiva University, Los Angeles; as well as the Los Angeles and San Francisco Baha'f Libraries. The staff at the Stat- und Universitatsbibliothek of Bern, Switzerland, deserve special acknowledgement for their kindness and assistance beyond the call of duty.

My thanks are due to the staff of the Intemational Esperanto Museum in Vienna, Dr Walter Hube and Herbert Maerz, for their assistance and for the opportunity to consult documents and periodicals in the Museum's collections, as well as for many of the photographs which appear in this book. I would also like to thank Catherine Schulze of the Esperanto League for North America, and Archivist Hal Dreyer for their help.

I would like to acknowledge the following Baha'f National Spiritual Assemblies for the use of material from their Archives and for sending material to me: the United States, Hawaii, Japan, Austria, Germany, Switzerland; and the Spiritual Assembly of Urbana, Illinois. In particular I must mention the special assistance of Archivist Roger Dahl, as well as Elaine Schwartz, Dr Duane Troxel, Barbara Sims, Margot Zabih, Elizabeth Hackley and Eleanor Hutchens. To all those individuals who provided help though I didn't know their names, or may inadvertently have neglected to mention them, I am equally grateful.

I would like to express my special gratitude to the Universal House of Justice in Haifa, Israel, for its kind encouragement and assistance, and to the staff of the Audio-Visual Department and Research Department, Audrey Marcus and Ethna Archibald.

My warm appreciation goes to Russell and Ginnie Busey, Rose Lopez D'Amico, Anne-Marie Dupeyron, Mr and Mrs Sergei Blagoveschensky, and Charles and Hilda Pulley for their kindness, hospitality and help; and to Dr Ugo Giachery for his gracious attention, candid recollections and much tea and biscuits.

I am deeply thankful to Dr Maijorie Boulton for her personal assistance and warm hospitality; to Dr Celia Stopnicka Heller, for answering my questions; and to Dr Amin Banani, Dr David Ruhe and Mr Ian Semple for their encouragement: a kind word can go a very long way.

To those who read all or part of the manuscript and offered perceptive comments and valuable editorial and substantive suggestions, I am humbly appreciative: my editor May BaUerio, Gayle Morrison, Dr Amin Banani, Roan Orloff Stone, Jack Weinstein and JanJasion.