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or borrowed the music plates from the Philadelphia publisher and corrected the first initial of Stephen's name for this second edition.* It was doubtless Peters who arranged for the Peters & Field advertisement in the Gazetteu announcing "a beautiful Song, Music by S. C. Foster, Esq.," at the same time calling it to the attention of W. D. Gallagher, who prepared the newspaper's music as well as literary items.
So there came a heavenly morning for the clerk and bookkeeper of Irwin & Foster, the tenth of June 1847, when the Gazette's editorial page transmitted a Jovian nod of recognition from the great Gallagher. Not with the usual New Music caption but under the column headed THE CITY appeared this item:
"Open Tby Lattice, Love''—This is the title of a sweet little melody for the Piano, just published by Mr. S. C. Foster, whose spirited air of "A Good Time Coming,"f published
* The copy of the Peters edition in the Foster Hall Collection (only known copy extant) reveals that the music plates seem identical with the Willig edition; that W. C. Peters is given as the publisher and the firms of Peters & Webster, Louisville, and Peters & Field, Cincinnati, as co-publishers; that the original copyright line is omitted; that the plate numbers 1116 are added to both pages; and that, most important to Stephen, his name is printed correctly.
| The item indicates that "There's a Good Time Coming," copyrighted by W. C. Peters in 1846, may also have been brought out by Peters in a second edition in 1847; there was, however, no local newspaper reference to this "spirited air" prior to the item of June 10. |
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