Papers of George Marion O'Donnell (1914-1962)

Boxes: 1-8

Box 1:

Series I -- Biographical and Personal

• Biographical, c. 1938-70
• Financial, 1922, 1940-41, 1947-50, 1960-62
• Genealogical, nd
• Legal, 1929, 1931, 1934-36, 1952, 1954
• Legal -- Fannie Bell, 1926, 1937-45

Box 1 (cont'd): Series II -- Correspondence (one letter received [rec'd] unless otherwise indicated)

• Abels, Cyrilly, 1957
• Abram, Morris B., 1954 (1 sent)
• Agnew, Donald C., 1957-58 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Allen, Lee N., 1948 (1 sent)
• Angel, Robert M., 1958 (2 rec'd and 2 sent)
• Armistead, Robert A., 1959
• Arnold, Norman J., nd
• Avery, John Hudson, 1960

• Barton, Craig, nd, 1961 (4 rec'd and 3 sent)
• Bass, Lawrence, 1947, 1957-60 (16 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Beaudoin, Kenneth L., 1954-55, 1957 (5)
• Bishop, John Peale, 1939
• Brennan, Joseph Payne, 1959
• Brown, Wendell H. and Eve, 1957-59, 1961 (12 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Bunting, J. Whitney, 1954
• Burris, Betty, 1959-60 (3)
• Buskirk, Eugene C., 1948
• Butler, John, 1954

• Cain, Anne, 1952 (2)
• Camp, John, 1957
• Carr, Jeanne, 1953, 1956 (4 rec'd and 3 sent)
• Cass, Bronston D., 1957
• Chapin, Victor, nd
• Christian, Bill, 1957 (1 rec'd and 2 sent)
• Cisneros, Maria Luisa, 1955
• Cook, Charlie, 1959

• Dalton, Henry, 1953-54 (3 rec'd and 2 sent)
• Denney, Reuel, 1938
• Desegregation in Belzoni, Mississippi, 1954-55 (1 rec'd and 4 sent)
• Dolgoff, Ralph, 1952, 1954-59 (15 rec'd and 12 sent)
• Doran, James J., 1956 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Downey, Harris, 1950
• Duncan, Edgar H., 1952 (1 sent)
• Duthuit, Georges, 1948 (2)

• East, Charles, 1952, 1954 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• East and West Book Club, 1958 (1 sent)
• Ehrensberger, Harold, 1945 (2)
• Eidson, John, 1953 (2 rec'd and 1 sent)

• Falck-Baranan, Marianne, 1961
• Fisher, David, 1957-58 (4 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Flanders, Bert H., 1957 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Fleitman, Sheldon, 1954 (1 sent)
• Fouts, W.E., 1954 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Fry, Beatrice, 1958
• Fryxell, Lucy and Don, 1961

• Garoutte, Nancy, 1947
• Gaurmoge, Charlotte, 1957
• Giovanelli, ?, 1949
• Govan, Gilbert, 1957
• Gulf Oil Corp., 1958 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)

• Haddock, William Charlton, 1957-58, 1960 (6)
• Hays, Marguerite, 1953, 1959 (2)
• Henry, W.A., 1941 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Herrington, Lillian, 1947-49, 1953, 1955-56 (7 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Hoepfner, Ted, 1941, 1954 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Hoyleman, Merle, 1947-49, 1951-56 (30 rec'd, 6 sent)
• Hurley, Jim, 1954

• Jones, George, 1957, 1961 (4 rec'd and 2 sent)

• Kartin, Bernard L., 1958
• Kast, Jeanne, 1955 (3 rec'd and 2 sent)
• Kirby, Tom, 1952 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Knapp, Bob, 1942, 1961 (3)

• Lambert Transfer Company, 1958, 1961 (2 rec'd and 2 sent)
• Leatherman, LeRoy, nd 1939-54, 1956-57, 1959 (167) (4f)
• Lippman, Larry, nd
• Lowe, Harry, 1961 (2 rec'd and 1 sent)

• Mabry, Tom, 1961 (2 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Massey, Gladys, 1953, 1955 (3 rec'd and 1 sent)
• McCurtin, Peter, 1957 (2 rec'd and 1 sent)
• McDonald, Louise, 1949 (1)
• McDowell, David, 1951, 1953, 1955-57 (5 rec'd and 2 sent)
• McGehee, Edward, nd 1940-49, 1951 (208 rec'd and 1 sent)

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Box 2:

Series I -- Correspondence (cont'd)

• McGehee, Thomasine, 1943-44 (10)
• McLellan, Pearl, 1950, 1953-58 (23 rec'd and 2 sent)
• Mims, Edwin, 1942 (1 sent)
• Montesi, Al, 1952, 1954-55, 1962 (7 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Montgomery, V. B., 1956
  
• Nash, Eugene, 1951
• O'Donnell, George C., 1935-36, 1956-58 (18 rec'd and 1 sent)
• O'Malie, David, 1956
• Owsley, Harriet, 1957
• Palmer, Sarah, 1955
• Parker, Jim, 1955 (1 sent)
• Paulk, Mr., nd (1 sent)
• Pease, Ann, 1958 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Pepinsky, Louise, 1949
• Porter, Barbara, 1955
• Porter, Paul, 1961
• Powell, Leslie, 1947
• Ransom, John Crowe [a brief note signed with the initials "JCR"], nd
• Ratcliff, Garrett, nd 1934-38 (69 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Robert, William, 1952, 1956, 1958-59, 1961 (8 rec'd and 2 sent)
• Rose, Letitia, 1948
• Scott, Foresman and Co., 1955 (1 sent)
• Shinn, John, 1941-50 (35)
• Smith, Maggie, 1958
• Southern Teachers Agency, 1957
• Stahraker, Chuck, 1955
• Stanley, Bob, 1952-54 (5 rec'd and 3 sent)
• Staples, Raymond F., 1951
• Starnes, Leland, 1948-49 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Stennis, Mrs. John C., 1951
• Stuart, Jesse, 1937
• Sutcliffe, Denham and Priscilla, 1947-49 (5)
• Tate, Allen, 1940 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Topp, Mildred S., 1953
• Tucker, Carol, 1957-58, 1960-61 (16 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Tyre, Nedra, 1954
• Walker, S., 1959, 1961 (2)
• Wenning, Henry W., 1959
• Wheatley, Elizabeth, 1954-55, 1957, 1959, 1961 (7 rec'd, 2 sent)
• Wigginton, Matt S., 1961 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Wilbur, Lorraine, 1957 (1 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Wildman, John, 1954
• Williams, Paul Wightman, nd
• Willison, John, 1956, 1959-61 (4 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Woodbury, Lou, 1957
• Sender/recipient not fully identified -- nd, 1943, 1948, 1954-59, 1961 (18 rec'd and 7 sent)
• Sender not fully identified -- Gifford ?, nd 1940 (4)
• Greeting cards, announcements, and invitations, nd, 1955-57, 1960-61 (46)
  

 

Box 2 (cont'd): Series III -- Journals and Daybooks

• Journals (5 volumes total)
  • 22 June 1933 - 9 February 1934 (3 vol)
  • 29 April 1938 - 10 October 1938
  • December 1939 - 1940
• Daybooks (27 volumes total)
  • 1932-36 -- Five-year book
  • 1934
  • 1937-40 (4 vol)
  • 1942-45 (4 vol)

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Box 3:

Series III -- Journals and Daybooks (cont'd)

• Daybooks (27 volumes total) (cont'd)
  • 1946-61 (17 vol)

Series IV -- Writings

• Articles
  • "Dissociation of Sensibility in the Lyric Poems of the Restoration," nd
  • "Dr. Donne, Dr. Johnson, and the Moderns," nd
  • "Expressionistic Drama," Books Abroad, Summer 1935
  • "Fiction and 'The Cause,'" nd
  • "John Skelton and the Lyric in English," nd
  • "Keats from the Modern Point of View," nd
  • "Looking Down the Cotton Row," The American Review, April 1936
  • "Newest American Poets: 1947," Voices, Summer 1947
  • "A Note on the Mysticism of Jones Very," nd
  • "Objectivity in Modern Poetry," nd
  • "Parallels: Donne, Webster, Eliot," nd
  • "The Poetry of Edmund Waller," nd
  • "T.S. Eliot," Harvard Advocate, December 1938
  • "The Tenant Farmer in the South" American Review, April 1935

• Lectures
  • "Contemporary Regionalism in American Fiction," April 1947
  • "Fiction and 'The Cause,'" nd
  • "Seeing and Not Seeing -- Knowing and Not Knowing," 20 April 1941
  • "Some Random Notes on the Short Story," 18 February 1953
  • "Somerset Maugham," 25 October 1944
  • "The Teaching of Poetry," 26 January 1948

• Miscellaneous
  • Abstract of Master's Thesis, "Tragedy and Christopher Marlowe," Bulletin of Vanderbilt University, 1 August 1940
  • Letter to the editor, Sewanee Review 31 May 1943
  • Proposal for a scholarly monograph to be called "The Estate of Modern Poetry," 1951

• Novels (proposed)
  • "No More My Lady," nd (notes, partial manuscript)
  • "Refuge," nd (notes, partial manuscript) (2f)

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Box 4:

Series IV -- Writings (cont'd)

• Plays
  • "Backwater: A One-Act Play of the Delta Country," 1933 (typescript, unpublished)
• Poetry
  • Manuscript
    • Loose sheets, nd (1f)
    • Notebooks, 1934-43, 1939-48, 1947-49, 1957, 1960-61 (7 vol)
  • Typescript (1f)
  • Published, Folder One:
    • "Ancestor," Southern Review, July 1935
    • "Ancestral," Poetry, January 1936
    • "Before Dark," Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1937
    • "Commencement Oration," Poetry, September 1936
    • "Descent of Leaf," Poetry, September 1936
    • "Divine Majority," The Observer, vol. II, no. 2 (nd)
    • "Dream at Noon," Harper's Bazaar, November 1941
    • "Elegie," Mississippi Verse, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1934
    • "Elegy for Time," River: A Magazine in the Deep South, April 1937
    • "Elizabeth," Southwestern Journal, nd
    • "The Hound That Hunts No More," Harper's Bazaar, June 1940
    • "Inscription for the Tomb of a Musician," Oxford Magazine, nd
    • "Lasting Covers," Talisman 2, Winter 1952
    • "Lullaby for a Metaphysical Baby," Mademoiselle, July 1947
    • "Nocturne II", Kosmos, May-June 1934
    • "On Seeing the Statue of Jefferson Davis Before the Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama," publication unknown, nd
    • "Plain Statement," Sewanee Review, Winter 1943
  • Published, Folder two:
    • "Prothalamion," Hika, May 1940 (3 copies)
    • "Retraction," New Yorker, 20 May 1944
    • "Return: In Memoriam M.B. O'D. ob. MCMXXV," Southern Review, nd
    • "The Rivals of My Watch," Alcestis, April 1935
    • "Savage Province," Sewanee Review, Winter 1943
    • "Semmes in the Garden," New Yorker, 16 September 1939
    • "Song: To Exiled Art," The Nation, 10 February 1940
    • Southwestern Journal, December 1934
      • "Such Rest in Bed"
      • "Bishop's Gambit
      • "Nor Wisdom in the Grave"
      • "To a Virgin Rocking on the Veranda in Spring"
    • "Talk of Friends" and "In the Language of the Polished Leaves," Poetry, May 1938
    • "These Fragments," Sewanee Review April-June 1935
    • "Three Songs," Hika, December 1938
    • "Time's Well," A Southern Vanguard, nd
    • "The Treacherous Brook," Tomorrow, August 1945
    • "The Wings of Plaster Angels" and "Prayer Against the Furies," Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1938"Winter Meeting," Harper's Bazaar, 1 September 1941
    • Reviews by George M. O'Donnell, 1938-40, 1947, 1949
    • Reviews of George M. O'Donnell's work, 1941, 1947-48
    • Reviews -- scrapbook -- both by and about, c. 1930s-50s
      
• Stories
  • "Encounter in Vicksburg," nd
  • "Friends in New York," nd
  • "Lost Travelers," nd
  • "The Trigger," nd

Series V -- Notes

• Notes, Courses Taken
  • English drama to 19642
  • German, history, unidentified (from one notebook)
  • Romantic Poetry

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Box 5:

Series V -- Notes (cont'd)

• Notes, Courses Taught
  • English Aa and Ab, 1946
  • English 20
  • English 55/56
  • English 111 -- Speech and Writing
  • English 112 -- Speech and Writing
  • English 163 -- Creative Writing
  • English 202
  • English 208
  • English 211 -- The Greek Adjustment
  • English 211 -- Human Understanding
  • English 212 -- Art Through the Ages
  • English 212 -- Medieval Synthesis
  • English 213 -- Expression of Beauty
  • English 213 -- Modern Temper
  • English 311 -- Understanding of Man
  • English 314/15 -- Modern Literature
  • English 315 -- Modern Literature
  • English 316 -- Modern Literature
  • English 317/319 -- Modern Poetry
    
• Notes, Miscellaneous
• Notes, Miscellaneous -- Plans for a symposium on poetry and tradition by the Southern Group, nd

Series VI -- Collected writings/publications

• American Spectator, July 1935
• Brown, Wendell H., "The Basic Structure of the English Language," 1954
• Bywater, Ingram, trans., Aristotle on the Art of Poetry, 1931
• Clay, Landon T., "The Immaturity of Saroyan," 1946
• Iconograph, no. 1, Spring 1946
• Jackson, Elizabeth, "Poetry and Poppycock," nd
• Jevons, W. Stanley, Elementary Lessons in Logic, 1882
• Leatherman, LeRoy, "The Sportsman," 1944
• Matthieson, F.O., "Introduction," The Oxford Book of American Verse, offprint, 1950
• Merritt, Charles W., "Moral Law Portrayed by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides," nd
• New Yorker, 20 May 1944
• Oglethorpe Literary Magazine, 1956-57
• Pfeiffer, Dagobert, "Exploring the River Banks," 1944
• Poetry, various authors, nd, 1940, 1949, 1961
• Porter, Katherine Anne, "Noon Wine," Story, June 1937
• Saturday Review of Literature, 19 March 1949
• Stewart, Randall, "On the Meaning of Vanderbilt," 1959
• Stormy Petrel (Oglethorpe University), 24 February 1960
• Sutcliffe, Denham, "W-S-Ow-R-W," 1948
• Tate, Allen -- two poems, typescript, nd
• Thomas, Richard A., "Amiel's Portrait of a Poet," 1936
• Time, 8 August 1955
• Yale News, 23 April 1958
  

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Box 6:

Series VII -- Clippings

• Clippings, c. 1940s-50s (2f)
  
  Series VIII -- Miscellany

• Miscellany
• Miscellany -- Address book
• Miscellany -- Creative and performing arts memorabilia
• Miscellany -- Recordings (3 albums)
  • Allen Tate reading his poems "The Mediterranean" and "The Cross," 1937
  • George M. O'Donnell reading "That Day" and "Her Distress," nd
  • George M. O'Donnell reading "Mask of Christ" and "Descent of Leaf," 1941
    

Series IX -- Photographs

• O'Donnell, George M., c. 1914-20, 1929, 1937, 1940, 1947, 1950, 1960-61 (21 items)
• Family, c. 1870s-1920s (10 album pages, 45 loose photographs
• Family -- Tintypes -- c. 1860s-70s (7 items total; 3 are painted)
• from: Puritan Village, by Sumner C. Powell, nd

Series X -- Gordon Roysce Smith, Jr.

• Biographical and personal, 1944, 1962-63

Correspondence:

• Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn), 1942
• Ames, Elizabeth, 1948
• Atlanta Graphic Arts Center, 1949

• Barton, Craig, 1964, 1966-67 (4)
• Berg, Norman, 1957, 1960 (2)
• Bewley, Marcus, 1947
• Brown, Wendell and Eve, 1957, 1960, 1962-64 (6)
• Butler, John, nd, 1944, 1947 (3)

• Censorship, Georgia, 1953 (5 rec'd and 3 sent, plus 17 other items)
• Cerf, Bennett, 1956
• Chaney, Bev, Jr., nd
• Cohen, Barbara, 1954, 1957-58 (5)
• Cooper, Marie, nd, 1947-48 (4)
• Cox, Chap, nd
• Crane, Vernon, 1969
• Crosby, Caresse, 1947, 1949 (2 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Crosby, Midlred, 1945

• Davidson, Martha, 1957
• DeBoer, Bernhard, 1951-52, 1954 (5)
• Dempsey, John, 1969
• East, Charles, 1963, 1971 (2)
• Emory University Alumni Association, 1942 (2)

• Falck-Baranan, Marianne, 1962
• Fry, Beatrice, 1962
• Funeral arrangements, George M. O'Donnell, 1962 (2)
• Fryxell, Lucy, 1944

• Greenberg, Clem, 1947-50, 1952, 1954, 1960, 1962, 1967 (32 rec'd and 2 sent)

• Haffenden, John, 1975
• Halpern, Maizie, 1954, 1956-57 (5)
• Hays, Marguerite, 1962
• Herrington, Lillian N., 1962
• Hobart, Alice Tisdale, 1944
• Hoepfner, Ted, 1944-45 (4)
• Hoyleman, Merle, 1950, 1962-65, 1976 (9)

• Jones, Ibbie, 1944-47 (14)

• Kappa Sigma, 1944-45 (2)
• Kirby, T.A., 1949
• Koch, Frederick, 1962

• Lawrence, Seymour, 1961-62 (2)
• Leatherman, LeRoy, nd
• Levin, Hilda Cohen, 1962
• Logan Middie, 1962
• Lowe, Harry, 1962
• Lyons, Rebie, 1962

• McDonough, Richard P., 1977
• McDowell, David, 1950
• McGehee, Edward, 1945, 1947-48 (6)
• McLellan, Pearl, 1949, 1962-63 (6)ontesi, Al, 1962 (2)
• Morgan, Elliott, 1947, 1949, 1959, 1963-64 (5)

• National Association of College Stores, 1958-59 (6)
• National Association of College Stores, 1965 (19 rec'd and 7 sent)

• O'Donnell, George Marion, nd, 1944-45 (173) (4f)

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Box 7:

Series X -- Gordon Roysce Smith, Jr. (cont'd)

Correspondence (cont'd):

• Packer, Herbert, 1946, 1951, 1954 (14)
• Palmer, Harriet Smith, 1946-47, 1962 (4)
• Paroissien, H.F., nd, 1951-57, 1960 (15)
• Phillips, A., 1945
• Pollock, Charles, nd
• Posters (3f)
  • nd, 1967-68 (3)
  • Invoices, 1967-68
  • Brochures, Catalogues, 1967-68
    
• Publisher's Weekly, 1956 (1 sent)
• Rawls, June, 1945
• Scotland (Book trade), 1970 (3 rec'd and 19 enclosures)
• Shinn, John, nd, 1944-45 (3)
• Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Gordon R., 1944-49, 1959-62 (12 rec'd and 1 sent)
• Smith, Mildred C., 1953 (2)
• Smith, Roger, 1964
• Smith, Sarah T., 1944
• Sorum, R.E., 1946-48, 1952, 1957, 1959 (10)
• Strand, Mark, nd, 1964 (6)
• Sullivan, Mrs., 1962
• Sutcliffe, Priscilla, 1946-49, 1952, 1964 (9 rec'd and 1 sent)
• The Tiger's Eye, 1948 (3)
• Topp, Mildred, 1950, 1962 (5)
• Tucker, Carol, 1957
• Turner E. Smith & Co., 1949
• Tyre, Nedra, 1954 (3)
• Washington University, St. Louis, 1971 (2)
• Weber, Olga S., 1962
• Wildman, John, 1962
• Williams, Mrs. T.H., 1945 (2)
• Willison, John, 1962-63 (4)
• Willoughby, C.L., nd
• Witzel, Edward J., 1956
• Woodbury, Lee, 1962
• Yerkes, Bill, 1945
• Zalewski, Steve, 1971
• Sender not identified, nd, 1945, 1957, 1960, 1962-63, 1971 (11)
• Greeting cards, announcements, invitations, 1944, 1958, 1962, 1965, nd (37 items)
• Writings, Published or Presented
  • "Being Arbitrary: The Opinionated Man," 1970
  • "Dupes for Whom?" National Association of College Stores, 1959
  • "Paperbackground," National Association of College Stores, 1959
  • Poetry, 1948-49, 1952
• Writings, Unpublished
  • Poetry, nd
  • Prose, nd
• Drawings, nd (3f)
• Calendars, 1962-63, 1965-66, 1975
• Notes, Miscellaneous, nd
  

Collected writings/publications

• Banks, J. Richard, various poems, nd
• Dembo, L.S, "Norman Holmes Pearson on H.D.: An Interview,"
• Contemporary Literature Autumn 1969
• The Faulkner Newsletter, 1981-82 (8 issues)
• Hoyleman, Merle, Letters from Christopher, excerpts, nd
• Nash, Ogden, "The Seven Spiritual Ages of Mrs. Marmaduke
• Moore," copied and illustrated by G. Roysce Smith, Jr., nd
• Shavzin, Alan, "A Day at the Zoo," 1959
• Sutcliffe, Priscilla, "Bobby Birthdaybird's Trip," nd
• Yale News, 26 May 1960
  

Clippings, 1960s
Clippings -- Censorship in Georgia, 1953
Miscellany, nd
Photographs: Pictures of Smith, pictures of booksellers conventions, 1 8x10 of Charles M. Schulz signing books and 1 4x5 negative of Cleanth Brooks signing books (68 items total)

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Box 8:

Series XI -- Oversize

George Marion O'Donnell

Miscellany -- Poster announcing GMOD reading from his own work, 4/17/46, Harvard University
Photographs

• Unidentified -- one white man, two white women, and one African-American woman, c. 1860s or 1870s
• "The Big Four," -- two men and women, c. 1910s
• "A bedroom at Stronghold, Greenwood, Mississippi,"12 December 1948; photograph by John Butler
• "Pearl McLellan, mistress of Stronghold . . ." 12 December 1948; photograph by John Butler
• "Stronghold, Greenwood, Mississippi, 12 December 1948.Built in 1847. Architecture, Greek revival."
  Photograph by John Butler.
• Albums (7 total)
  • c. 1890s-1920s, [family ?], (2 albums)
  • Red cover, GMOD and friends, 1930s
  • Green cover, GMOD and friends, 1934-37
  • Blue cover, GMOD and friends, 1938-39
  • Blue scrapbook, mostly clippings, entitled
  • "Phenomena in the Arts," c. 1930s
    

Gordon Roysce Smith, Jr.

• Two sketch books
• Collected writings/publications: Life: John F. Kennedy Memorial Edition, 1963
• Miscellany
  • Certificate naming Smith to Connecticut's "Standards of Decency" commission
  • Sketch by Bill Moulan
  • Movie posters
    • "Badman's Gold" (1951)
    • "Blazing Six Shooters" (nd)
    • "Bury the Living" (1957)
    • "The Disorderly Orderly" (1964)
    • "East of Eden," six different posters (1955)
    • "Godzilla vs. The Thing" (1964)
    • "Hercules" (1959)
    • "Nightmare" (1956)
    • "The Sniper" (1952)
    • "The Women of Pitcairn Island" (1956)
      

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