Wr. Walter Kendall Watkins, Secretary of the Society of Colonial Wars, for his invaluable knowledge regarding early Boston. The chapters on Some Early Book and Music Shops and the Site of the Hay-M arket Theatre are due to his research. Thanks are also due to JW r. Julius H. Tuttle of the Massachusetts Historical Society, JW r. Charles F. Read of the Estonian Society, Mr. Otto Fleischner, Mr. Walter G. Forsyth and Ciss Barbara Duncan of the Boston Public Library, and Ciss JW ary t Alden Thayer of the Harvard 3usical Association for courtesies extended. The author is also indebted to Mr. Joseph M. Jennings of the Old Corner Bookstore, Jr. Edward 3ttc Glenen, City Registrar of Boston, Mr. J. Jftf. Triaulx and Mr. H. J. Haney for illustrations, and to Mrs. Qeorge Whitejield Stone for the portrait of her grandfather, Cf. Cjraupner, and for information regarding him. The author takes pleasure in acknowledging his indebtedness to the indispensable bibliographies of Mr. O. G. Sonneck on Early Concert-L ife in America and Early Secular American Music, and to that of Mr. Frank J. Metcalf on American Psalmody. w. A. F.
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