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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Alfred A. Knopf: Excerpts from
Between Father and Son: Family Letters
by V. S. Naipaul, edited by Gillon Aitken, copyright © 1999 by V. S. Naipaul; excerpts from
Letters to Freya, 1939-1945
by Helmuth James Von Moltke, translated by Beate Ruhm von Oppen, translation copyright © 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

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Striving Towards Being
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A President in Love: The Courtship Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt
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from Joy Street
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Selected Letters
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Penguin Books Ltd.: Excerpts from
Selected Letters
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Princeton University Press: Excerpts from
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The Courage to Stand Alone
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Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
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Thomas Mallon is the author of seven novels, including
Fellow Travelers, Bandbox, Henry and Clara
and
Dewey Defeats Truman
. Among his nonfiction books are studies of diaries
(A Book of One’s Own)
, plagiarism
(Stolen Words)
and the Kennedy assassination
(Mrs. Paine’s Garage)
. A frequent contributor to
The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly
and other publications, he lives in Washington, D.C.

Copyright © 2009 by Thomas Mallon

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The
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Mallon, Thomas [date]
  Yours ever : people and their letters / Thomas Mallon.
  p. cm.
  eISBN: 978-0-307-37864-4
  1. Letters. I. Title.
  
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6131.
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35 2009   808.86—dc22 2009006315

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