The Dying Minstrel

[Wes Merchant]

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85026105/1855-07-26/ed-1/s...

I was noodling around on the Library of Congress site and came across this article, I thought it might be of interest to some here.

[Tim Twiss]

Thanks Wes. It is also inside the reprint of the Briggs' Banjo Instructor. Doesn't that paint a great image of Tom Briggs? I think so.

[Leonidas (Lee) Jones]

Tim, I knew I saw that somewhere before, thanks for jogging my memory

[Wes Merchant]

It is a nice tribute I'm not surprised this has shown up elsewhere. The writer, George Wilkes, was a well known journalist of the times, here are a few more of his works:

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?type%5B%5D=all&lookfo...