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- ↑ MSS 40 The Ernest Trow Carter Papers in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University
- David Ewen, Encyclopedia of the Opera: New Enlarged Edition. New York; Hill and Wang, 1963.
- List of winners, cited on Opera-L
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