Stephen Foster, the Song-Writer--A Friend Comes to the Rescu His Originality--"My Old Kentucky Home" and the "Old Folks at Home"-- General Sherman and "Marching Through Georgia" I have received many letters touching what I said a little while ago of Stephen Collins Foster, the song writer.

In that matter I had, and could have had, no unkindly thought or purpose.

The story of the musical scrapbook rested not with me, but as I stated, upon the averment of Will S.Hays, a rival song writer.

But that the melody of Old Folks at Home may be found in Schubert's posthumous Rosemonde admits not of contradiction for there it is, and this would seem to be in some sort corroborative evidence of the truth of Hays' story.
Among these letters comes one from Young E.Allison which is entitled to serious consideration.

Mr.Allison is a gentleman of the first order of character and culture, an editor and a musician, and what he writes cannot fail to carry with it very great weight.