ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Many persons have contributed exceedingly valuable service to the preparation of these volumes. Credit has been gratefully acknowledged, wherever feasible, in the course of the text. To make anything like a full record, however, of the names of that remarkable society, the ardent and devoted friends of Joyce Kilmer, would require a chapter. Though particular reference should be made in this place to the invaluable assistance of: Kilmer’s life-long friend and lawyer, Louis Bevier, Jr.; his especial friend, Thomas Walsh; and his office associate, John Bunker.
Permission has been most cordially granted by the editors of the following magazines for the reprinting of the poems from France: Scribner’s Magazine, Good Housekeeping, The Saturday Evening Post, America, and The Bookman. Essays and miscellaneous pieces have been gathered, with the warm approval of the editors of these publications, from these sources: The Bookman, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Bellman, The Catholic World, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, he Smart Set, Munsey’s Magazine and Puck—a curiously assorted company, highly expressive of the catholicity of the mind these pages reflect.
The article on Hilaire Belloc, originally one of Kilmer’s lectures, was first printed in the American edition of Belloc’s “Verses.” The early poems have been chosen from Kilmer’s first book, “A Summer of Love,” now out of print, rights to which are held by Mrs. Aline Kilmer. Poems not otherwise credited have been reprinted from the volumes already published by George H. Doran Company.
R. C. H.
New York, 1918.