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This book provides a comprehensive glimpse into the life and work of John Howard Payne, a well-known actor, artist, and playwright of the early 19th century. The book presents an overview of his most notable works, including his most famous contribution as the writer of the song Home Sweet Home, and chronicles his contributions to the flourishing artistic culture of his time. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Excerpt from John Howard Payne, Dramatist, Poet, Actor, and Author of Home Sweet Home: His Life and Writings IN 1875, almost immediately after the Faust Club of Brook lyn, Long Island, had erected the monument to the author of Home, Sweet Home, in Prospect Park, I wrote The Life and Writings of John Howard Payne. For over twenty years I had been gathering everything that in any way related to Mr. Payne's life. I looked through old files of the New York, Boston, Phila delphia, and Baltimore newspapers, the chief places which Mr. Payne when a boy, the young American Roscius, had visited. I then sent to London for monthly magazines that contained records of the stage, running back as far as 181...
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This collection of John Howard Payne’s Papers is a significant recovery of firsthand political and social histories of Indigenous cultures, particularly the Cherokees, a southeastern tribe, whose ancestral lands included parts of the present-day states of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The papers enable readers to understand how the Cherokees and many other American Indians endured and persevered as they encountered forced removal in the 1830s due to the Indian Removal Act. The papers are also a source of cultural revitalization, elucidating the work of Sequoyah, a Cherokee genius, who in 1821 introduced his syllabary, a phonemic system with eighty-five symbols. John Howa...