ON THE TRAIL OF NEGRO FOLK-SONGS

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AFTERWORD
My heaviest debt of gratitude is to my friend, Ola Lee Gulledge, bachelor of music and professional pianist of Texas and New York, who has been invaluable in taking down the music and putting it in shape. I am under great obligations to Professor George Lyman Kittredge, who has read the proof of the book and given me helpful information and illuminating advice. I am indebted to Professor Ashley BL Thorndike, Professor James C. Egbert, and Professor Hyder E. Rollins for encouragement and assistance in the prepara­tion of the book.
Others who have aided me are: Emily Abbott, Reverend and Mrs. E. P. Aldredge, Hervey Allen, Irl Allison, Roberta Anderson, Professor A. J. Armstrong, W. H. Babcock, Lottie Barnes, Mrs. Tom Bartlett, Reverend William E. Barton, Mr. and Mrs. O. Douglas Batchelor, Alvin Belden, Professor Frank Boas, Kate Langley Bosher, Dr. Boyd, Mary Boyd, Judge W. R. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Boyd, Jr., Arelia Brooks, Mary Louise Brown, Mrs. Cam-milla Breazeale, Hershell Brickel, Mrs. Buie, Dr. Prince Bur­roughs, Early Busby, Jacques Busbee, Juliana Busbee, the late George W. Cable, John Caldwell, Mary Stevenson Callcott, Betsy Camp, Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. Carroll, Dorothy and Virginia Carroll, Mrs. Harvey Carroll, Albert Cassedy, The Century Com­pany, Central Texas College, of Waco, Texas, Mabel Cranfill, Dr. J. B. Crannll, Mrs. Crawford, Robert A. Crump, Irvin Cobb, Mrs. Lucian H. Cocke, Mayor Cockrell, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Mrs. Cockrell, Miss Isabel Cohen, Lizzie W, Coleman, Professor John Harrington Cox, Charity Danne, Loraine Darby, Mrs. Landon Ran­dolph Dashiell, Mrs. De La Rose, the late Samuel A. Derieux, Mrs. George Deynoodt, Elizabeth* Dickinson, Reverend J. G. Dickinson, Harris Dickson, Judge Diggs, Mrs. D. M. Diggst the Director of the Colored Y. M. C. A. in Fort Worth, Texas, Louis Dodge, Mr. Dowd, W. E. Doyle, Mr. and Mrs. Sparke Durham, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Garnet Laidlaw Eskew, John Farrar, Jean Feild, Harriet Fitts, Virginia Fitzgerald, Betty Foley, Clare Virginia Forrest, Maximilian Foster, Maud Fuller, Charles Galloway, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gamble, Louise Garwood, Anne Gilmer, Meta Glass, Mr. Robert Gordon, Dorothy Van Doren, Hilton Greer, Lydia Gumbel, Louise Haight, Norman W. Harlee, Harper and Bros., Dr. J. T. Harrington, Isabel Harris, Will Harris, W. C. Handy, Albert Hart, Mrs. Hatchell, Mrs. Cammie G. Henry, Dorothy and DuBose Hey-wood, Worth Tuttle Hedden, of New York, Ruth Hibbard, Lucy Hicks, Mrs. Esther Finlay Hoevey, Hatcher Hughes, H. B. P. Johnson, Betty Jones, W. A. Jones, Professor W. A. Kern, Justin