from Grant Richards' Housman: 1897-1936; Scribners, from Lau-
rence Housman's My Brother: A. E. Housman; Bobbs-Merrill,
from Laurence Housman, The Unexpected Years; Jonathan Cape,
London, from Percy Withers' A Buried Life; and Colby College
Library, Waterville, Maine, A Shropshire Lad, with notes by Carl
J. Weber, ( 1946).

To the research libraries of the University of South Carolina,
Duke University, The Library of Congress, and the University of
Cincinnati, for the use of material, and to Mr. Laurence Housman,
Miss Clemence Housman, Mr. Edmund Wilson, Mr. Ben Lucien
Burman, Mr. Melville Cane, and Mr. Witter Bynner for permission
to quote from published works and letters.

To my husband, whose aid was constant, both on our English
summer of research and at home; to my daughter, Mrs. Lynn
Kalmbach, whose devotion gave me the time to complete the book;
to Mr. Charles Lee, at that time of the University of South Carolina,
for unfailing interest and aid; to Miss Ruby Kitchens, who per-
formed my secretarial labor loyally and accurately over a period of
three years, and to Mrs. Catherine Furney, who completed this
labor.

MAUDE M. HAWKINS

" Hawkinshurst"

Hopkins, South Carolina

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