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series, the first of its kind in the country. He also published four volumes of poetry with the Yale
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Percy's family was plagued with suicides, including that of his first cousin LeRoy Pratt Percy and possibly his wife Martha Susan (Mattie Sue) Phinizy Percy, who died in a car accident. William adopted his cousin's children,
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or whether Slocum read it, liked it, and revised it himself for the anthology. ... In addition, there is no extant evidence of connection between and Percy and Slocum in Percy's own papers.
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