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References
- Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family. Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Percy, William Alexander. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. (Reprinted with Introduction by Walker Percy, LSU Press, 1973.)