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2 I could tell him in previous communications, on this subject, was that in all my copies his song was there. However, I havent got all of the editions neither. I sort of liked the little history sketch that D.B. wrote on the little red song book and which Philip Taft saw fit to pick up for Labor History. I don't know if D.B. shares my criticism of the contents of the song book. He has not said yet, except to agree with me, that the old English socialist songs are hard to improve on. Songs by F. A. Symonds for example. "These things shall be! A loftier race/Than e'er the world hath known shall rise/With flame of freedom in their souls/And light of knowledge in their eyes." Songs by Morris, Blake, James Russel Lowel, Carpenter, Cooper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joseph Whittaker etc etc. The inclusion of these authors, or part of them, in your forthcoming editions would still make it a little red song book though not a little red IWW song book exclusively. As I said in my letter to H. M. E. Seattle much