found: Her The letter edged in black, 1897:caption (words and music by Hattie Nevada)
found: Newsweek (Jan. 26, 1953):p. 73 (Mrs. Hattie Woodbury, d. Jan. 24 in Kansas City at 91; composer of "The letter edged in black")
found: SecondHandSongs web site, viewed March 30, 2017 (Hattie Nevada; b. November 10, 1861, d. January 14, 1953; Harriet Woodbury was a songwriter and mezzo soprano. She co-owned with her husband, Frank H. Woodbury, the Kansas City Talking Machine Company founded in 1897. She made cylinder recordings which were sold only by the Kansas City Talking Machine Company. She often used the pseudonym, Hattie Nevada, when publishing songs)
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