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Copyright © 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 by E. B. White
Introduction copyright © 1982 by E. B. White
Copyright renewed © 1997 by Joel White
Foreword copyright © 1997 by Roger Angell
Editor’s Note: Three of the pieces in this volume were published first in The New Yorker. “The Summer Catarrh” appeared July 30, 1938, under the title “Daniel Webster, the Hay Fever, and Me.” “The World of Tomorrow” appeared May 13, 1939, under the title “They Came With Joyous Song.” “The Flocks We Watch By Night” appeared November 11, 1939. For the sake of clarity, all the other pieces carry the date when they were written, rather than the date when they appeared in print in Harper’s. The following three pieces appear also in Essays of E. B. White: “On a Florida Key,” “Once More to the Lake,” and “The World of Tomorrow.”
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