Letters and clippings concerning Southern songs [manuscript], 1905-1926?

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Letters and clippings concerning Southern songs [manuscript], 1905-1926?

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Letters and clippings regarding southern songs, including two letters, 1905, February 18 and 24, to Edward J. Smith, 96 Broadway, N.Y., concerning Galbreath's book, "Daniel Decatur Emmett," author of "Dixie"; and clippings regarding Stephen Foster and various southern songs and song writers.

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Smith, Edward J., 1927-

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Galbreath, C. B. (Charles Burleigh), 1858-1934

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Foster, Stephen Collins

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Stephen Collins foster was born in Pittsburgh in 1826. He wasnaturally inclined to music and he wrote over one hundred and seventy songs in his short life. He traveled to New Orleans and New York to compose music but still came back to Pittsburgh, where he died in 1864. From the description of Stephen Foster Collins collection 1931-1932 [typescripts]. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 48010401 Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer, orchest...

Emmett, Daniel Decatur, 1815-1904

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Songwriter and mistrel from Mount Vernon, Ohio. From the description of Daniel Decatur Emmet papers, 1830-1900. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 45803324 Daniel D. Emmett wrote the popular song "Dixie." From the description of Broadside, ca. 1859. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49342458 American composer and minstrel performer. From the description of I wish I was in Dixie's land, 1859. (Cornell University...