Stephen Collins Foster a Bibliography of Americas Folk Song Composer
Stephen Collins Foster a Bibliography of Americas Folk Song Composer
Harold Vincent Milligan
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The song Stephen refers to had been sent to Gilead A. Smith, a connection of ours in New York, to be by him delivered to a person who had requested Stephen to send him a song for public perform- ances. Mr. Smith after calling several times, failed to find the person and so informed my brother. Hence the latter's invitation. I well remember that this very song was "Nelly Was a Lady, " one of Stephen's best compositions. It afterwards sold in immense num- bers and to a profit of several thousand ...dollars. The significant features of the letter are the indications that Stephen still seems to have had no conception of the commercial value of his "miserable songs, " and that his 50 STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER fame had reached in a few months such proportions as to attract the attention and interest of a New York music- publishing house, one of the largest and foremost of the time. This relation between Stephen Foster and the house of Firth, Pond & Co. , was to grow and to endure through many years.
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