Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-12-20
HONE. SWEET HOME
BY BARRY GRAY.

From the Nsw York Evening sfan.l
50 Some songs" my wife said, cost
mint of money, and, doubtless Home,
Sweet Home brought its author good
round sum.
0Iet Us see about that, 1 replied
u this song was written, according to Mr.
Brai1ard. friend of the poet, for an
operatic drama entitled CIdri, the Hald
of' Milan. which Mr.. Payne sold, IN
1925. to Charles Kemble, Of Covent
Garden Theater for the sum Of thirty
hounds. The song itself was first sung
bv Miss Tree-an elder sister OF Ellen
who Is now the widow OF Charles keaE-
and so admirably did she sing It that she
thereby fascinsted wealthy gentleman
OF I4UIfUUrr, --s----.aIe her an offer Of
marriage, which she accepted. 80 thas,
if the song did not bring the author
wealtb-and it Is said that one million
comics Of it we're sold by the publishers
within two years, netting them pront
of two thousand guineas, and OF when
PAYNE received not a penny-lt brought
lady wealthy husband.
1T is probable that the song was
written prior to 1925, but was then In
| eornorated into the Maid Of Milan.
4 writer whose name l cannot learn,
ssys that Payne told him that ne was
one day IN Paris. waiting the coming Of
3 merchant TO bis store, upon whom ne
had q draft and as he stood BY the desk
musipe upon his home across the waters
he picked up a pen, and, almost Uneon-
sciduslv. wrote the song which has made
his name immortal.
{, And which. my wife added, is
sung and admired wherever the English
tongue is spoken.
.sMv friend Col. Lawrence, known II
literary circles by his sopbriqast O.
isKpiekerbocker Jr., in an interesting
sketch of him--still in manuscript
saws 81 pelectly well recolieet Payne
as striking my youthful fancy on his hrs
appearance in the character OF Aorrd'
on the 22d Of February, 1909, in NeV
York. He was then sixteen years o
age, very fair, very handsome, and 2P
! peared much younger than he was ii
had been educated at Schenectady, unde
DR.. Mott. who had developed those tai
ents which subsequently made him
; nopular and successful dramatist.
Payue was twice appointed Consul
E Tunis. to which place be sailed for th
7 last time in May, 1881, and where h
0 died a homeless and disappointed NAL
Z on the 9TH of April, 1852, at the age
Z sixty-tsO years. !,
h aTo think" said my wife, '.that u
anthor of Home, Sweet Home shoui
have died in foreign land and ami
. strangers
y Of home is sung in every cabin and maj
g sion in the land, it Is a singular iaet IN |,
Il the words arc seldom correctly gwen.
E. Mr. Brainard, copying them from q
70 authors manuscript, thus transerie'
: them
ie a,Mia pleasures and palaces though We m'
: y Bs ii rSSi'' svs. 50 hunbls there's no place IL
hone. -, A, =,
DO charm nom the sky seems 70 haiiow es me
"a WHICH. seek through eto ~"--~t = -
re ~ aarnS- Hofnsi sweet. swest EOmei
Thereis no place ike Home.
CO There' no place ike Home.
u nsx,le from Home. splendor dszzles IN val
10 on, give my l. WY tnstehs S ~ "a sS NV -
ha The otrdss nging gaily, thst came ~ ny 49, = =
- Give me them aud t1e pVaoe U -1A-AA ~
teao Ha5,s Honef sweet. sFaet Homel
nd There nc place ike Home.
IN There's L place Ike Home