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Gene Waddell Editor

Gene Waddell is Special Collections Archivist Emeritus at the College of Charleston and former director of the South Carolina Historical Society, USA. Waddell is the author of the two-volume Charleston Architecture, 1670 - 1860.

David S. Shields is McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina, USA. He edits the journal Early American Literature and also serves as general editor of the Publications of the Southern Texts Society series. Shields's books include Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America and Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America, 1690-1750.