The thanks of the authors are due to the editors of _The London
Mercury_, _The North American Review_, _Poetry, A Magazine of Verse_,
_The Reviewer_, _The Book News Monthly_, and _Contemporary Verse_ for
permission to reprint many of the poems in this volume.
Grateful acknowledgment is also made to many friends for first-hand
information and for the loan of letters, diaries, pictures, and old
newspaper clippings.