Show NOT bur PUT TO ro FLIGHT 19 1 SOUTH BOUNTIFUL nov NovIS 18 1883 1885 1887 editor deseret nees news 11 oblige me ine once more inore and I 1 w wili il try ty to be brief sot not until yesterday did I 1 hap bap tonee to tee t see ee by a it friends kindness mr ddn 11 J hills letter rud or I 1 would booner hooner have replied re piled plied enat amiable gentleman called calleg on me as he isaas and was evide evidently out of sorts perhaps with bis cold ride mrs hill in in her buggy buguy and accost ed we we with now how is this about your letter later knowing anohim to what be he referred refer redi replied that what I 1 had written to the alews NEws was the tile truth that I 1 considered the proper time timeto to make a orr correction eption nas was as at the time and not after it vas waa out of date I 1 told him that only one of my iny preces p had heen been in 1881 I 1 in UL he the primary tune kuae book and here let iet et me bay tay of prof tc J 1 bonus who took at c down from my dictation lic tation tatton his his hid baug laughter liter and mish miss minnie allun I 1 e eit elv feit felt elt being the only persons persona present that he is a thoro thoroughly u h conscientious musie musician an never altering even to improve the original and nd that he wrote it j just as I 1 played and sang it to him hini air and bass repeating repeAt ind lud itt it to 0 me for my judgment I 1 wish ail all all ail professionals were as generous and just to authors as prof thomas 1 I 1 have often heard his views upon taen tain with the work of others if any alteration afterward occurred from my entirely original production I 1 am not prepared to state who did it jt he who steals my purse steals trash etc in stating that mrs hill hui is the first lady in utah who nho has issued sheet music mv my statement that my iny piece antedated ante aute jated dated dated hers in its p publication is not affected nor the fact that I 1 practiced musical composition for tor or twenty fourbears four years before her hero waltz waltg was announced why should mr hill doubt the existence of my unpublished music shall I 1 say that mrs hill has not w written cl aten two or three novels because they are still unpublished I 1 can easily believe she has written them and that they are good does the employment of an amanuensis invalidate authorship then blind tom can never claim his beautiful grain orain 6 rain kain storm and others because he old did not write them upon paper i 1 nind and find in my old oid scrap book a memorandum of sixteen songs which memory still retains dating back to july 1 1800 1860 the authorship and date of which c capo compositions I 1 can make affidavit to one of these earliest tunes the sunlight of the household splayed and sang by toy my fathers request to our sues gues guests ta brothers F A mitchell and joseph wood woodmansee mansee at burho our house bouse use in california Afterward Miss carmichael asked to bear it and expressed herself thus your music has expressed my poem most satisfactorily 11 this was twenty years ago in salt lake city mrs lizzie lizzle thomas the well remember remembered ea scotch vocalist was very fond of my jeannie morrison as prof thomas may remember at st george georgej 1867 self seit respect and confidence are not egotism shall I 1 bush and deny the still small voice of melodies and harmonies harmonics I 1 have heard beard and stifle it from the outer life I 1 have been urgently advised by that fimi comi eminent nent english author dr J simms to exercise the faculty of musical composition but its requisite culture has been to me the impo impossible sibie sible from my poverty art hill I 1 the divine gift the inspiration of song existed I 1 before the science and the manual labor of its preservation do you think miriam paused on the further shore of the lied sea to hunt bunt up blank sheets and a printing press and to learn publishers terms before she san gan sang her immortal song son of praise tin til the le field is very large room for or many composers the more the bet ter and in conclusion I 1 wilt repeat with the indest kindest feelings mrs birs hills compositions may be far superior to tco mine but I 1 can play and sing twenty four songs composed before the year 1883 1885 by myself and without the slightest assistance from any person living cordeal or cor dead I 1 consider this statement due to my friends I 1 in truth and sincerity AUGUSTA JOYCE CROCHE Rox ros 4 1 1 A MA i can 4 named evan owen owens s was placed in c custody u at buete butte butter kin montana tana on monday jast last as aduna a lunatic tic an examination n showed that he was on on the verge of starvation aa and h A keane become crazed by hunger I 1 |