LINKS to the Peirce Edition Project (P. E. P. ) online

N.E.H. grant for 2010–2012

To begin merrily, in early June 2010, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced their willingness to offer a grant to the Peirce Project. That was elating news! The Project had applied for a three-year grant at the end of October 2009. On the basis of N.E.H.'s offer, we revised our work-plan and budget, reduced the grant period from three to two years, and rebalanced the production schedule to match the offer's corresponding range of feasibility. N.E.H. approved the revision one week later, and the happy outcome is that from 1 September 2010 to 31 August 2012, the Project will once again work actively under N.E.H. sponsorship. We are all very pleased with the renewing of N.E.H.'s trust, and are determined to work hard to accomplish our aims.

(See N.E.H.'s Matching Funds, p. 2.)

N.E.H.'s matching funds

The grant's outright funds allow the Project to hire and pay a good 90% of the salary of an assistant textual editor, the search for whom has just concluded. N.E.H.'s offer also includes $30,000 in matching funds. This means that every dollar the Project raises before the end of May 2012 will be matched by one N.E.H. dollar, up to $30,000. We encourage everyone—individuals, foundations, institutions—to make as generous a donation as can be afforded, in the confident knowledge that N.E.H. will then provide the equivalent to the Project, all to the benefit of the critical edition.

The matching funds, to the extent that they can be raised, will allow us to complement the new assistant textual editor’s salary to a slightly more attractive though still modest level, to hire a graduate assistant who will help with annotations research and other tasks, and also to pay for indispensable shoe-string travels to the Houghton Library or other archives, so that we can check our transcriptions against original documents. Archival checking is an essential aspect of our task, made more challenging by the fact that university travel funds have been drastically curtailed because of the current unfavorable economic conjuncture.

Please be a part of the N.E.H. matching-fund initiative, remembering simple arithmetic: if you double a contribution set in your mind, N.E.H. will quadruple it. If you triple it—well there is no satisfactory verb for what N.E.H. will then do, but it will be good, and you will be profusely thanked for your generosity.

To contribute to the Peirce Edition Project, go to
Peirce Edition Project Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities (at website of the Institute for American Thought, I.U. School of Liberal Arts,
Indiana University—Purdue University, Indianopolis).