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Edward Burns: Excerpts from letters of Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein from The Gertrude Stein—Carl Van Vechten Letters: 1913–1946, edited by Edward Burns. Copyright © 1986 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted by permission of Edward Burns.
Columbia Pictures Publications and Fred Fisher Music Co., Inc.: Excerpt from “Ballad for Americans” by John LaTouche and Earl Robinson. Copyright 1939, 1940. Renewed 1966, 1967 by Robbins Music Corp. & Fred Fisher Music Co., Inc. Rights of Robbins Music Corp. assigned to SBK Catalogue Partnership. All rights for SBK Catalogue Partnership controlled and administered by SBK Robbins Catalog Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
Yale University Press: Excerpts from letters of Carl Van Vechten from Letters of Carl Van Vechten, selected and edited by Bruce Kellner. Copyright © 1987 by Yale University. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.
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