Margaret Washington sent a card to Jessie from Tuskegee in January 1907 confirming receipt of a photograph: ‘[how] much like both you and Mr. Taylor these children are’. That summer she travelled to Berlin to her stepdaughter Portia who accompanied her to America where Portia married architect Sidney Pittman. Portia Washington Pittman played Coleridge-Taylor's arrangement of ‘Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child’ at the Metropolitan AME Church the following summer.

January's Monthly Musical Record reviewed Coleridge-Taylor's Scenes de Ballet: four piano pieces inspired by Longfellow's poetry. ‘In addition to stirring rhythm, we have delightful melody and harmonic colouring’. The reviewer decided to ‘proclaim them all best’. Coleridge-Taylor was one of nine vice-presidents of the Croydon Choral Society whose concert at the Large Public Hall on 19 January included Kubla Khan, the Choral Ballads and the Entr'acte from Nero. A concert in aid of St Mary's church in Chatham included his African Dances on 5 February. On 1 March August Manns died. A leading figure through his work at the Crystal Palace he had been knighted. His widow, daughter, brother, Parry, Stanford and Coleridge-Taylor attended the funeral in Upper Norwood on 6 March. Others noted by Musical News were Crystal Palace personnel. Ten days later the String Players’ Club's concert had Coleridge-Taylor directing them in works by Brahms and Victor Herbert.