“Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair” was entered for copyright deposit on June 5, 1854, by Firth, Pond & Co. The name Jennie, not Jeanie, appears consistently in the draft text of Foster’s manuscript book. 

The composer’s niece, Evelyn Foster Morneweck, suggests that the publisher asked for the change but avowed that the song was always known to the Foster family as “Jennie with the Light Brown Hair.” She writes in The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family,

Stephen C. Foster’s “Jenny’s Coming o’er the Green” was first published in Clark’s School Visitor in July 1860. It was subsequently entered into copyright on July 21, 1860, and published by Lee & Walker as a songsheet.

Foster’s friend John Mahon wrote about the song in “The Last Years of Stephen C. Foster,” which appeared in the New York Clipper on March 24, 1877. He wrote, 

“Kissing in the Dark” was submitted for copyright deposit on August 8, 1863, by John J. Daly of New York. George Cooper authored the lyrics.

“Laura Lee” was deposited on August 7, 1851.