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(Late summer 1989)
This is a bittersweet time in my life by that I mean that in my 29 years of collecting I have had all the highs and lows that collectors experience, but none of the highs approach the one I experienced the day that I uncovered the full set of the Edison Phonograph monthly bulletins.
Now, after 3 years of planning and 13 years of printing, E.P.M. is a completed set. It has not been easy, quite exasperating — and most of you, I'm sure, at one time or another, have given up on ever seeing it finished — but here it is!
In retrospect, conditions did deteriate so badly at times that completion was in doubt — but problems kept being solved and books kept being printed and now we are seeing the end of the tunnel. It was once described by another publisher as being an "Ambitious project" — well, he was quite right — moreso than I knew at the time. There was one life saving element in my favor though — all you guys that were willing to stand up and be counted with me. Your support made all this possible!
I have had much help in producing the books also — this Volume is greatly enhanced by Dave Heitz in his allowing us to use the issue of the Edison Works.
In this final book, I must stress again the great service rendered us by a man that none of you had the pleasure of knowing-M.A. " Mac" McMillion. I truly hope Mac is in a position to realize what a service he performed in caring for the E.P.M. for those 62 years.
Thank you "Mac" where ever you are.
Wendell Moore