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* The Open Air,' and ' Life of the Fields ' ; and Messrs. 

 Duckworth and Co., pubHshers of ' Bevis,' ' After London,' 

 and ' AmaryUis at the Fair ' ; also the proprietors of 

 Country Life and Miss F. C. Hall for permission to use the 

 photograph of Richard Jefferies as a young man. The 

 following also have given me help : Mr. George Avenell, 

 Mr. Samuel Lane Bondman, Mr. Gordon Bottomley, 

 Mr. James Bradford, Mr. A. Coleman, Mr. T. C. Davison, 

 Mr. F. B. Doveton, Mr. Ernest Rhys, Miss W. M. 

 Fentiman, Mr. A. M. Freeman, the Rev. E. H. 

 Goddard, Mr. William Gough, Mr. P. Anderson Graham, 

 Mrs. Arthur Harvie, Mr. H. Bottomley Knowles, Mr. C. J. 

 Longman, Mr. S. Morris, Mr. A. Theodore Rake, Mrs. 

 Daniel Smith, Mr, H. H. Stunner, Mr. H. Woolford, 

 and Mr. W. Wright. 



1908 EDWARD THOMAS. 



