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- ↑ Stevenson, Robert (1911). A Child's Garden of Verses. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 9780517163283.
- ↑ Schenkar, Joan (2009). The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith. St. Martin's Press. p. 19. ISBN 9780312303754.
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