Day: January 22, 2020

It’s a small world. One of Fanny Crosby’s dearest friends was the hymn writer Phoebe Knapp, a wealthy woman some fifteen years younger than she. Fanny often visited her at her New York mansion, where she enjoyed talking to another of Phoebe’s friends, Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was Pheobe who wrote the tune for one…