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The present letter documents Sousa's involvement in the war effort after the U.S. had entered the First World War.  Ironically, his correspondent, Oscar G. Sonneck, was opposed to the U.S. involvement in the war.  Born in New Jersey but educated in Germany, Sonneck introduced the achievements of the then new academic discipline of musicology to the U.S.  He headed and built the music department of the Library of Congress from 1902 to 1917 and became one of the first scholars to study the history of American Music.  In 1917, harassed by the government because of his opposition to the war, he left the library to accept an executive position at G. Schirmer, where his championed contemporary American composers.  Today's Society for American Music was founded in his honor (in 1975) and initially named after him.