Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1883 — WHERE "HOME, SWEET HOME," WAS WRITTEN. [ARTICLE]

WHERE "HOME, SWEET HOME," WAS WRITTEN.

In the autumn of 1846 John Howard Payne was my daily companion in Paris, and told me much of the history of his life. One afternoon, after dining together at Tavernier’s in the Palais Royal, we were strolling around the quadrangle, when, turning his eyes toward that portion of the main building occupied by shops, offices and leased dormitories, he asked me if I saw a small window near the roof, at which he pointed with his Huger. On my replying that I did, he said that in that room, during a season of dejection and almost despair, with only a brick wall separating him., from the palace, and that small window between him and the happy, thoughtless crowds belew, the opening words of the song, “Mid pleasures and palaces,” came to his mind as naturally and unconsciously as a sigh, and that then and there he wrote the words which he afterwards introduced into “Clari, or the Maid of Milan.”— Wm. T. Davis, in New York Sun. ,

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