References

[i] These estimations were determined after examining: JoAnne O’Connell, The Life & Songs of Stephen Foster: A Revealing Portrait of the Forgotten Man behind “Swanne River,” “Beautiful Dreamer,” and “My Old Kentucky Home”, (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), 37-80; and Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 1, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1944), 77-288.

[ii] Lindley Murray and Jeremiah Goodrich, Murray’s English Reader, (Albany: S. Shaw, 1829); Morrison Foster, My Brother Stephen, (Indianapolis: Foster Hall Library, 1932), 23-25.

[iii] JoAnne O’Connell, The Life of Stephen Foster, 51; Henrietta Wick to William B. Foster Jr., September 29, 1839, quoted in Harold Vincent Milligan, Stephen Collins Foster: A Biography of America’s Folksong Composer, (New York: G. Schirmer, 1920), 21; Morrison Foster, My Brother Stephen, 50.

[iv] JoAnne O’Connell, The Life of Stephen Foster, 57; William Wallace Kingsbury, quoted in John Tasker Howard, Stephen Foster: America’s Troubadour, (New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1943), 95-96.

[v] Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 1, 190. Stephen Foster to William Barclay Foster, Jr., November 9, 1840, quoted in Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 1, 190; Eliza Foster to William Barclay Foster Jr., March 24^th, 1841, quoted in Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 1, 196; Stephen Foster to William Barclay Foster Jr., 1841, quoted in Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 1, 197.

[vi] Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 1, 202; Stephen Foster to William Barclay Foster, Jr., July 24, 1841, quoted in Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 1, 203. William Barclay Foster Sr. to William Barclay Foster Jr., March 30, 1842, Foster Hall Collection, C513; William Barclay Foster Sr. to William Barclay Foster Jr., March 14, 1842, Foster Hall Collection, C515; Eliza Foster to William Barclay Foster Jr., October 18, 1841, quoted in Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 1, 215; Eliza Foster to William Barclay Foster Jr., September 16, 1841, Foster Hall Collection, C596;

[vii] Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 1, 241, 256.

[viii] Morrison Foster, My Brother Stephen, 31, 25; Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, 110; JoAnne O’Connell, The Life & Songs of Stephen Foster, 71.

[ix] Examples of this can be seen in: Elsie Murray, Stephen Foster at Athens: His First Composition, (Athens, Pa: Tioga Museum, 1941), 11; JoAnne O’Connell, The Life of Stephen Foster, 55; William Wallace Kingsbury, quoted in John Tasker Howard, Stephen Foster: American Troubadour, 96; John Tasker Howard, 99; William W. Austin, “Susanna,” “Jeanie,” and “The Old Folks at Home”: The Songs of Stephen C. Foster from His Time to Ours, (Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press, 1989), 18.