The original responsibility for some of these stories--or at any rate
the original copyright--was allotted as follows: “The Prize Package,”
Collier's Weekly (1918); “Urn Burial,” Every Week (1918); “The
Climacteric,” The Smart Set (1918); “The Pert Little Hat,” The
Metropolitan (1919); “The Battle of Manila Envelopes,” The Bookman
(1920); “The Commutation Chop-house,” The New York Evening Post (1920);
“The Curious Case of Kenelm Digby,” The Bookman (1921); “Gloria and
the Garden of Sweden,” Munsey's (1921); “Punch and Judy,” The Outlook
(1921).
All but one of these publications are still in existence. To their
editors and owners the author expresses his indebtedness and his
congratulation.