William Armstrong to May Wright Sewall 4

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William Armstrong to May Wright Sewall 4

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320 Hampton Court Chicago Oct. 9 th/98 [ARMSTRONG Wm]

My Dear Mrs Sewall: I shall be leaving for the Pacific Coast on the nineteenth of this month beginning a tour at San Francisco under the auspices of the Channing Auxiliary.

Arrangements are being made for me to lecture on "American Composers" on my return journey at Salt Lake City in the Tabernacle there with the great choir of, I believe, six hundred

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voices to sing the illustrations. Walter Damrosch is going to send me his new Te Deum written in honor of Dewey's victory. The closing part will be sung for the first time in America in the heart of the country and not on the sea-board and by the Mormon people. Mr Damrosch writes me that "The Star Spangled Banner" is the foundation of this final chorus to the words "O Lord in Thee, in Thee have I trusted, let me never be confounded."

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I wish you could be present. I am sure that the vast place and great number of singers will make the occasion an impressive one. I hope it will fasten my words in their hearts and help the cause. I shall now be lecturing entirely having given up my part in the Tribune as they disagreed with my lecturing. The lecturing I would not give up — it means both my mission and my cause and as it is I do not see how my life can be

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long enough to do the half that I must. I have finished a new lecture "The Artistic Temperament" a study of the artist psychologically — and the studies are from life.

I give it at the University of Columbia in New York and at the Brooklyn Institute in Brooklyn—and I hope the contemporary Club—Will you not speak a word to the committee for me? I give my address above. I send you a copy of a snap-shot of Verdi and his librettist Boitoof Verdi and his librettist Boito—it is signed by the man who made it --Buzzi Peccia. I got him to sign it the other day in a luncheon as I thought it would prove of interest to you.

sincerely William Armstrong.

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