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Hurst, James, Telephone conversations with author, July and September 2005.

———, “The Scarlet Ibis,” in the Atlantic Monthly, July 1960, pp. 48-53.

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Trent, James W., Jr., Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States, University of California Press, 1994, p. 199.