Thanks Nigel,
I am in Arizona in the U.S. How do you even contact the estate of someone to find out? I know that for modern songs, we contact the writer and send them a royalty, if they want it.... but not sure about how that works if you are only using lyrics.   On a side note, I would love to send a cd to the decendants of Katherine Tynan - I just think that might be really nice for them to have.

Claire