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Peter Parley to Penrod (1938), pp. 132-133.

See pp. 29-33. Information from a letter of Mrs. Dorothy R. Russo to the writer.

I am indebted to Mrs. Russo for the comparison and description of the two copies of Penrod in the William Henry Smith Library of the Indiana Historical Society, and the two in the Indiana State Library, as well as for her interest and encouragement. I am grateful to Mr. John Cook Wyllie and the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia for making available to me the "Taylor" copy of Penrod. Thanks are also due to Mr. Howard C. Rice, Jr., and Mr. Alexander D. Wainwright of the Princeton University Library for the information they furnished me and their hospitality in permitting me the use of their facilities. And, finally, this paper would never have been written without the kind suggestions and patient guidance of the editor of Studies in Bibliography and of Mr. Wyllie.

I(a): one copy, Coxe. I(b): four copies, ViU (Taylor), Ind. Hist. Soc. (Ross), Ind. State Libr., Coxe. I(c): three copies, NjP (Ex 395.75.368), CtY (Za/T175/914-Neergaard), Ind. Hist. Soc. I(d): one copy Coxe. II(a): two copies, Ind. State Libr., Coxe. II(b): one copy, NjP (Tarkington). III(a): one copy, CtY (Za/175/914b-Wing). III(b): one copy, Coxe.

See W. L. Phillips, "The First Printing of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio," Studies in Bibliography, IV (1951), 211-213, and the comments by Jacob Blanck in Antiquarian Bookman (Feb. 9, 1952), pp. 639-640. In this connection it might be well to note that some damage occurred to the plates of Penrod before the first printing as evidenced by the persistence of the following broken or battered type in all copies examined: lower page numbers 201, 262, and 308; upper page numbers 182 (figure 2 off line), and 209; headline on p. 246.