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  ———. “ ‘Men That Wouldn’t Cheat Each Other … Seem to Take Delight in Cheating Women’: Court Challenges Faced by U.S. Businesswomen in the Nineteenth Century.” Conference presentation, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, August 21, 2006.

  INTERVIEWS

  Abel, Livinia. Telephone interview by author, summer 2011.

  Bedell, Barbara (author of Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green and the World He Created at Round Hill, 2003). Interview by author, July 2009, Round Hill, Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

  Howland, Llewyn. Telephone interview by author, 2009.

  Lowe, James. Telephone interview by author, 2010.

  McCord, James. Telephone interview by author.

  Nelson, Scott Reynolds. Telephone interview by author, August 27, 2010.

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