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Date: 12 Mar 2002 19:51:38 -0700

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27 November 1974 New York Times

Margaret Boni, 82, A Writer on Songs
Margaret Bradford Boni, a music teacher and writer of popular books on songs, died yesterday at Lenox Hill Hospital. She was 82 years old and lived at 2 Washington Square Village.
The most popular of several books that Mrs. Boni wrote on songs, "The Fireside Book of Folk Songs," was published in 1947 by Simon & Schuster. It is now in its 20th printing and has sold 250,000 copies.
She also wrote "The Fireside Book of Love Songs," "The Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs," and "Keep Singing, Keep Humming," a book for smaller children.
Mrs. Boni was an early exponent in this country of the recorder, a medieval flute. From 1928 to 1954, she was director of the music department of the City and Country School, 165 West 12th Street.
Mrs. Boni, whose husband, Charles, died in 1969, leaves no immediate survivors.

BONI-Margaret Bradford, wife of the late Charles, beloved aunt of Margaret Bevans, Anne Ross and Barbara Klaw. No services. Contributions may be sent to the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, 166 Avenue of the Americas.

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