Formulating Foster

Introductory Essay: Remembering the Life and Works of Stephen C. Foster Part I. Competing Narratives after Foster's Death 1: An Obituary of Stephen C. Foster (1864) 2: Two Letters by Henry Baldwin Foster (1864) 3: Reminiscences of George W. Birdseye (1867) 4: Reminiscences of Robert P. Nevin (1867) 5: Reminiscences of John Mahon (1877) 6: An Interview with an Anonymous Pittsburgh Acquaintance (1879) 7: An Interview with Rebecca Shiras Morris and Joan Sloan Shiras (1879) 8: An Interview with Samuel S. Sanford (1882) 9: An "Anonymous" Interview with Morrison Foster and George C. Cooper (ca. 1888) 10: An Interview with an Anonymous "Acquaintance" (1889) Part II. Memorializing Foster at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 11: Reminiscences of Kit Clarke (1893) 12: An Interview with Jane Foster Wiley (1895) 13: An Interview with Frank Dumont and a Pittsburgh Lady (1895) 14: Two Interviews with Susan Pentland Robinson (1895) 15: An Interview with John H. Cassidy (1895) 16: An Interview with J. William Pope (1895) 17: An Interview with a "Prosperous Merchant" (1895) 18: An Interview with Jehu Haworth (1895) 19: An Interview with Marion Foster Welch (1895) 20: Two Interviews with William Hamilton (1895) 21: An Interview with an Art Dealer (1895) 22: An Interview with a St. Louis Businessman (1895) 23: An Interview with a "Prominent Pittsburgher" (1895) 24: Morrison Foster's Sketch of His Brother's Life (1896) 25: An Interview with the "Foster Serenaders" (1900) 26: An Interview with Rachel E. Woods (1900) 27: An Interview with the Daughter of a Friend (1900) 28: An Interview with William P. T. Jope (1900) 29: An Interview with Maria Beabout (1900) 30: Reminiscences of George C. Cooper (1902) 31: Recollections from Classmates at the Athens Academy (1905/1911) Part III. Remembering Foster after the NAACP's 1914 Protests 32: Reminiscences of Susan McFarland Parkhurst (1916) 33: A "Letter" by W. W. Kingsbury (1905/1916) 34: An Interview with B. D. M. Eaton (ca. 1916) 35: Harry Houdini's Take on Kit Clarke's Memories of Foster (1916) 36: Reminiscences of John W. Robinson (1920) 37: More Reminiscences from George C. Cooper (1920) 38: An Interview with Marion Foster Welch (1924) 39: An Interview with Marion Foster Welch (1929) 40: Family Memories Relayed by the Grandson of Thomas "Daddy" Rice (1931) 41: An Interview with Katherine Schoenberger Mygatt and Martha Stough (1934) 42: Jessie Welsh Rose Relays Her Grandmother's Memories (1926/1934) Conclusion: After Archival Amnesty: Toward a New View of Stephen C. Foster Appendices