“Sail On” is a setting of a text by Thomas Moore for voice and piano by Adolph M. Foerster. The song appears to have never been published. Foerster may have originally considered including it in his songs published in his opus 71. He scratched out “Op. 71, No. 2” on a manuscript in his handwriting dated June 13, 1908. On a separate manuscript he scratched out “Op. 80, No. 1.”

Henry Kleber published the two books that comprise Adolph M. Foerster’s Second Album of Lyrics in 1909. The manuscript of an orchestrated version of “Through the Wood,” the fourth song of book two, is in Adolph M. Foerster’s hand.

“Sitting by My Own Cabin Door” was submitted for copyright deposit on April 20, 1864, by John J. Daly of New York.

There is no record of copyright entry or deposit for “Slumber My Darling.” It was issued as number 11 in Waters’s Foster’s Melodies series. Therefore it was probably published number 10, “Was My Brother in the Battle?”, was entered for copyright on August 10, 1862. The song must have been published by June 4, 1863, when Waters advertised it in the New York Daily Tribune.

Snowbirds is a composition by Cecil Burleigh. A four-hand piano arrangement was made by William H. Oetting. The manuscript in the William Oetting Collection is dated October 22, 1936. 

“Soiree Polka” was submitted for copyright on February 12, 1850, by W. C. Peters of Baltimore. An arrangement for four hands was submitted on September 3, 1850, although it Is unclear if Stephen Foster made that arrangement himself.

According to Evelyn Foster Mornweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family:

“The Soldier’s Home” was submitted for copyright deposit on November 13, 1863, by S. T. Gordon of New York. George Cooper authored the lyrics.

“Somebody’s Coming to See Me To Night” was submitted for copyright entry on April 29, 1864, and for copyright deposit on May 14, 1864, both by D. S. Holmes of New York. George Cooper authored the lyrics.

For organ. On the manuscript in the William Oetting Collection, the composer indicated the piece was “dedicated to the memory of his mother.” 

I. Allegro moderato et maestoso

II. Andante

III. Allegro furioso

“Song of the Winds and Streams” is a composition for voice and piano by William H. Oetting. The poetry is by Tennyson. Oetting dedicated the piece “to Martha.” Manuscripts for high voice (in the key of A-flat) and mezzo-soprano (in the key of F) are found in the William Oetting Collection. The manuscript for high voice is dated February 20, 1902, and lists performances of the song. 

For SATB choir and piano.

“Stand Up for the Truth” was published in The Athenaeum Collection of Hymns and Tunes for Church and Sunday School, which was submitted for copyright deposit on December 9, 1863, by Horace Waters. The author of the text is identified as J. C.

Adolph M. Foerster’s String Quartet No. 1, op. 33, appears to have never been published. The manuscripts are in the composer’s hand. The manuscript for the first violin part is dated June 8, 1894.

For piano. The manuscript in the William Oetting Collection indicates that this study is to practice the “passing under of thumb.” The manuscript is dated October 10, 1916. Oetting inscribed, “Written for want of something better to do.” 

The autograph manuscript of Fidelis Zitterbart’s “Music’s Phases,” a suite for solo piano, is dated November 27, 1902. The movements are inspired by the poetry of C. Tulloch. 

I. Introductione (Moderato-con moto et molto-esspressione)

II. Cradle song (Adagio-con moto et cantabile)

III. Capriccio (Presto)

IV. Marcia eroica

V. Marcia funebre

VI. Religioso fantastique

VII. Finale (Moderato-con grazioso et Allegro-spiritoso)

The autograph manuscript for Fidelis Zitterbart’s Suite for Solo Piano, “Christmas,” is dated December 14, 1902. The piece is dedicated “to Mrs. Agnes Braun.”

I. Introductione: Moderato-maestoso

II. Under the magnolia

III. Valse impromptu (La esmeralda)

IV. Finale

Suite für Violine und Klavier, op. 36, was published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1895. A manuscript in the composer’s hand survives for the first movement.

The six movements in Fidelis Zitterbart’s Suite No. 2 (“The Nursery”) for Solo Piano are based on nursery rhymes. The piece is dedicated to Beatrice and Cedric Braun. 

I. Jack and Jill

II. Little Pig Went to the Market

III. Little Bo Peep

IV. Ba Ba Black Sheep

V. Mother Goose

VI. Cinderella’s Valse 

The autograph manuscript of Fidelis Zitterbart’s Suite No. 3 (“Souvenier de Schumann”) for Solo Piano in A major is dated April 5, 1900. 

“The Music of the Sea” is Fidelis Zitterbart’s sixth suite for solo piano. 

“Sweet Emerald Isle That I Love So Well” was submitted for copyright deposit on November 1, 1866, by John J. Daly. George Cooper authored the lyrics. Only the melody is attributed to Foster.

“Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair” was submitted for copyright deposit on March 18, 1851, by F. D. Benteen of Baltimore. The text was an adaptation of Charles G. Eastman’s “Sweetly She Sleeps,” which appeared in Poems of Charles G. Eastman (Montpelier: Eastman and Danforth, 1848).

According to Evelyn Foster Mornweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family: