Article on Open Letter to Jerome Hopkins

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3 January 2026

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26 Sep 1864

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Participants:  Charles Jerome Hopkins

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Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 26 September 1864.
Same letter.
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Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 September 1864.
“Dear Sir, Believing that the art of music is progressive and that American composers are destined in time to occupy as high positions as our painters, poets and sculptors now do, we hereby invite you to produce some of your orchestral and piano works in our city, as from the pen of one whose past and present labor is to popularize high art.”  It is signed by Peter Cooper; Odgen Doremus; Richard Grant White; Jame M Quin; A.V. Stout; Thomas Ward; Edward Conner; J.W. Gerard; Abraham S. Smith, William Pond, and others.