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 Emory University Library; Miss Carrie T. Williams, and the Carnegie Library, of Atlanta; Miss Ella May Thornton, and the State Library of Georgia; Mrs. J. E. Hays, and the Department of Archives and History of Georgia; Miss Ruth Blair, and the Atlanta Historical Society; Georgia Historical Society; and the Library and Alumni Society, University of Georgia. The original documents confirming Crawford Long's accomplishment are deposited with the Library of Congress, and we are fortunate in being able to reproduce them.

Of much value also have been letters, suggestions, and other aid from Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois; William Cole Jones, Associate Editor, Atlanta Journal; Charlton Ogburn, New York City; Chauncey D. Leake, University of Texas; Ralph H. Major, University of Kansas; Arno B. Luckhardt, University of Chicago; Thomas W. Reed, University of Georgia; T. B. Rice, Greensboro, Georgia; and George Ward Boland, Boston.

Also I acknowledge my debt to Miss Frances Smith, Jefferson, Georgia, for important information about Jefferson and its people; and to a member of the Long family, Mrs. James V. Webb, Athens, for procuring papers and pictures from the collection of Edward Crawford Long, grandson of Dr. Long. I thank Miss Bertha Trott, Baltimore, secretary to Dr. Hugh H. Young, for valuable photographs and literature belonging to Dr. Young, and Mrs. Logan Clendening, San Marino, California, for a copy of Crawford Long's revealing letter.

Mrs. Marion S. Harper, Atlanta, proved co-operative and capable in assembling the facts collected in reference to Georgiana Bird Washburn and her family. In this investigation Mrs. Harper was assisted by Mrs. W. W. Norman, Griffin, Georgia, a descendentdescendant [sic] of the McCleskey family; Mrs. W. R. Dancy, Savannah, Georgia in quoting old library