To My Dad Classic Reprint

Excerpt from To My Dad

The publishers and compilers wish to acknowledge their obligations to all who have contributed to the contents of this volume, and especially to Mrs. Edwin Oscar Gale and Mr. Oliver Marble Gale for permission to use extracts from the works of the late Edwin Oscar Gale, to Mrs. Helen Ekin Starrett for the poem of her sister, the late Florence Ekin Allison, to Miss Florence Holbrook for the poem from the works of her late father, Edmund S. Holbrook, to Miss Rena Albertyn Smith, Miss Grace Berenice Cooper, and others; and to Messrs. Small, Maynard Company and Mr. George Horace Lorimer for extracts from The Let ters of a self-made Merchant to his Son, to Mr. Mitchell Kennerly and Mr. William Rose Benet for a poem from The Lyric Year, to Messrs. Forbes 8: Company for a poem by the late Ben King, to The Ladies' Home Journal and Mr. Strickland W. Gillilan for a poem by the latter, to The Saturday Evening Post, and Mr. Louis E. Thayer for a poem, and to Messrs. Samuel Ellsworth Kiser, Ray Clarke Rose, Donald Robertson, Bert Leston Taylor, Charles Hanson Towne, Christopher Bannister, John Jarvis Holden, and Alexander Maclean.

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