Firth, Pond & Co. deposited Stephen C. Foster’s “Poor Drooping Maiden” for copyright on February 9, 1860. 

According to Evelyn Foster Morneweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family: “Before leaving for New York, he sent to Firth, Pond in 1860, ‘Poor Drooping Maiden,’ ‘None Shall Weep a Tear for Me,’ ‘The Wife; or He’ll Come Home,’ ‘Under the Willow She’s Sleeping,’ probably ‘Cora Dean,’ and one good song, ‘The Glendy Burk,’ composed in his best old-time manner.”