Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — Wesley’s Retentive Memory. [ARTICLE]

Wesley’s Retentive Memory.

Samuel Wesley reproduced from memory after a lapse of 25 years an oratorio covering upward of 300 closely written pages which he had composed early in life. He said that he saw the score in his “mind’s eye” as accurately as if It lay before him.