Our Complaints Depratment is always pleased to entertain petitions. 

The first number of our publication was an experimental venture, produced as an amusement ­ not unlike our second issue. As such, it was literally rife with errors. Below we hope to amend these various insurgencies upon veracity, though it is to be expected that many more such examples of prevarication will arise with the publication of our most recent issue, as well. We invite all who notice such egregious transgressions to contact us for immediate satisfaction. In every case, the "Ephemeralist" regrets the errors.

A1. Issue #1. Page 27. Mr. Arthur LaBrew of Detroit, Michigan, one of the foremost black music researchers in America and contributor to our second issue, points out that the A. Hackley pictured performing with the "Williams Jubilee Singers" is not the same Azalia Hackley after whom the Hackley collection on deposit at the Detroit Public Library is named, but an entirely different Mme. Hackley. Mr. LaBrew should know this subject well, as he acted as curator of the collection for a year.

A2. Issue #1. Page 77. The musician pictured and labeled as "G. Tom Ireland", clarinetist with the Sedalia "Queen City Concert Band", is, in fact, A. H. Hickman, the organization's baritone horn player. Mr. Ireland is pictured at left, for appropriate reference.

B1. Issue #2. Page 27 ridiculously implies that Leigh Whipper was a "strutter," or a cakewalker, when in fact the reference is to his childhood nurse, who is mentioned earlier in the article. Poor editing is the root of this mistake.

Above: The Real G. Tom Ireland.