“Tell Me of the Angels, Mother” 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.

There is no record of copyright entry or deposit for “There Are Plenty of Fish in the Sea.” The 1862 copyright claim on the cover is for the collective title page. Later copies of the song have an 1863 copyright claim on page 3. George Cooper authored the lyrics.

“There Was a Time” was submitted for copyright deposit on June 29, 1863, by S. T. Gordon of New York. James D. Byrne authored the lyrics.

“There’s a Good Time Coming” was copyrighted on October 9, 1846, by Peters & Field of Cincinnati. The text was by poet Charles McKay. Foster was not the only one to set this poem to music. Henry Russell wrote a version prior to Foster that Foster was most likely familiar with and the Hutchinson Family also wrote a version that came out after Foster’s.

The first score linked below was used for the Foster Hall Reproduction.

There is no deposit copy in the Library of Congress for “A Thousand Miles from Home.”

John Mahon, a friend of Foster’s, offers insight into the songs origins in his article “The Last Years of Stephen C. Foster” (New York Clipper, March 24, 1877):

Adolph M. Foerster’s Thusnelda, Op. 10, is a character piece for orchestra after a poem by Karl Schäfer. The piece was published by Rieter-Biedermann in Leipzig in 1881.

For solo voice and piano.

Trio-Serenade, op. 61, is a composition for violin, cello, and piano by Adolph M. Foerster. 

“Turn Not Away!” was entered for copyright on October 15, 1850, by F. D. Benteen of Baltimore. 

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

“Twenty Studies for Organ in Trio Style Consisting of Chorales and Well-Known Hymn Tunes” is a collection of organ arrangements made by William H. Oetting. Manuscripts are found in the William Oetting Collection. 

1. O God Our Help in Ages Past (St. Anne)

2. Praise to the Lord (Lobe den Herren)

3. Now Thank We All Our God (Nun danket)

4. The God of Abraham Praise (Leoni)

5. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (Ein feste Burg) 

6. All Glory, Laud, and Honor (St. Theodulph)

7. O Sacred Head Surrounded (Passion Chorale, by Hans Leo Hassler)

The pieces that comprise Adolph M. Foerster’s Two Easy Pieces for Piano, op. 84, are “Maypole Dance” and “Homage to Mozart.” Manuscripts in the composer’s hand are found in the Adolph M. Foerster Collection.

The first part-song, “The Bedouin’s Prayer,” is for low voices (TTBB). It was first published in 1887 as a lithograph by Fitzgerald Lith. in Columbus, Ohio. The lithograph is dated June 6, 1887. 

In 1888 both songs—“The Bedouin’s Prayer” and “June Song” (SATB)—were copyrighted and published as opus 22 by H. Kleber & Bro. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “June Song” survives in manuscript in Adolph M. Foerster’s handwriting. Also surviving is a marked-up proof of the negative photographs Kleber & Bro. used to to make their printing plates.