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Summer 2021 18 18 P A N P I P E S A World of Music By Jayne I. Hanlin In his book Living with Liszt, Carl Lachmund reveals that he gave Mabel Wagnalls a lock of Franz Liszt's hair. Today it is in the Wagnalls Memorial in Lithopolis ("City of Stone"), Ohio, inside a frame that also contains the author's inscription and an obscure autographed photograph of Liszt: Presented to Mabel Wagnalls-Jones for the Wagnalls Memorial, this autographed photograph of e Abbé Liszt together with this genuine lock of my great friend and teacher's hair, which were given to me at his Weimar home June 17th, 1884. by Carl V. Lachmund New York May - 1925 Adam and Anna Wagnalls were born in humble circumstances in Lithopolis, which is not far from Columbus. eir only child, Mabel, born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1869, visited her maternal grandmother in this Ohio village in the summer but never permanently resided there. Her father co-founded Funk & Wagnalls, famed publisher of reference books. Her mother referred to the family as "our little triangle" and was a beacon of light for her husband and daughter. Mabel wrote her mother's biography, aptly named e Light in the Valley: Being the Story of Anna Willis, in which she documents her mother's background and life as she remembers them. In the telling, she acquaints us with her own fascinating experiences, including their sojourns in Vienna and Berlin. Her father learned about his nineteen-year-old daughter's first performance in Germany from a local New York publication: "American girl's successful début in Berlin." In the second half of the book Wagnalls Memorial in Lithopolis, Ohio Wagnalls Memorial in Lithopolis, Ohio Mabel Wagnalls, Pianist and Author Mabel Wagnalls, Pianist and Author

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