A manuscript for “Autumn Waltz” was discovered in a binder’s volume in 1988. This presentation copy was prepared for the dedicatee who lived at Freedom (Beaver County) near Pittsburgh in the 1840s. Because the song was unknown in the early 1930s when the Foster Hall Reproductions were made, it is not present in that edition. The song was published for the first time in The Music of Stephen C. Foster: A Critical Edition, by Deane Root and Steven Saunders (Smithsonian Institute Press, 1990).