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I have a steadily growing collection of operetta scores from the turn of the century to about 1945. Many of the earliest ones are, of course, in public domain, and I'd be more than happy to share them if there's any interest. At the same time, the libretti to these things are almost impossible to find, so I'm hoping some of you good folk might have access to them through your sources.

The ones that I know are PD include:

THE PINK LADY (Caryll)
WOODLAND (Luder)
THE PRINCE OF PILSEN (Luder)
MAM'ZELLE TAPS (Penn)
THE COUNT AND THE CO-ED (Morgan)
HADES INC (Miller)

After this, the list gets dicey insofar as copyright is concerned (Thanks, Mr. Disney; I hope you choke on your little mouse...), but if anyone can help with the items above, that would be *greatly* appreciated. And, as noted, if anyone feels these would of any value to the collection, I'm more than happy to scan them.

You might try looking at both the Internet Archive and Google books. They seem to have a growing collection of libretti there. Of course, many of these files will have to be cleaned of logos and metatags in order to be unloaded here. Its fairly easy to do if you have the software.

I've tried both, with no luck. Google Books has plenty of vocal scores from this genre (Those interested might enjoy looking at some of the stuff by Ivan Carylll) but not much in the way of libretti. Thanks anyway; I appreciate the response.