Rufus Norton Grisham (reprise)

In June 2020, I posted a short piece on singer/songwriter Rufus Norton Grisham. Since that time, I have located a newspaper obituary of Grisham.

The Daily (Mississippi Coast) Herald, Saturday, September 26, 1936, page 1

Also here is a list of the songbooks with which I know he was involved in publishing:

• Songs of Heaven: a Collection of the very Best Songs to be found, for Church, Sunday School, Revival, the Singing Conventions, and all Religious Gatherings, Greenville, SC: R. N. Grisham, circa 1924
• Heavenly Light, No. 2: a Collection of the Best Songs to be found for Church, Sunday School, and all Religious Gatherings, Fort Worth, TX: Quartet Music Co, n.d.
• Service Songs for Christian Work and Worship, ( J. W. Gaines, editor), Austin, TX: Firm Foundation (Memphis, TN: Showalter Publishing), 1929 
• Our Bells of Heaven, Laurel, MS: R. N. Grisham, n.d.
• Gospel Carols, Ellisville, MS: R. N. Grisham, n.d.
• Heaven’s Message: a Collection of the very Best New, and Old Songs that can be found, for Church, Sunday School, Singing Conventions and all Religious Gatherings, Ellisville, MS: R. N. Grisham, n.d.
• Heaven’s Highway, Ellisville, MS: R. N. Grisham, n.d.
• The Gates of Glory: a Book with a Song for any Occasion where a real Spiritual Uplift is Desired (with J. L. Moore, J. R. Baxter), Ellisville, MS: R. N. Grisham, circa 1935

Daniel Read complains, gets even

I enjoyed and was amused by these honest thoughts of Daniel Read.

“It is not only ungenerous but unjust to publish the works of any author without his consent.—Irritated beyond measure at the unprovoked robbery committed upon the American Singing Book by the Editor of the Worcester Collection and having no redress but by retaliation there being then no law in existance to prevent such abuses I availed myself of that opportunity to publish some peices [sic] from the Worcester Collection to which I had no right.” – Excerpt from a 1793 letter from Daniel Read to Jacob French, as printed in Music in the USA: a Documentary Companion, Judith Tick, editor, (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 74)