“Little Boy Blue,” by Ethelbert Nevin, was published in 1891 in the set Five Songs, op. 12. Eugene Field wrote the text. Two holograph sketches are found in the Ethelbert Nevin Collection. 

“Little Jenny Dow” was submitted for copyright deposit on January 10, 1862, by Horace Waters of New York.

“Little Jenny Dow” is one of several Foster songs that use the name “Jenny” in the title. The others are “Jennie’s Own Schottisch” (which is part of The Social Orchestra), “Jennie’s Coming o’er the Green,” “Jenny June,” and the original draft of “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair.”

“Love Song,” for soprano and orchestra, is a setting of a poem by Amelia Rives by Adolph M. Foerster. The manuscripts survive in the composer’s hand. 

Firth, Pond & Co. entered “Maggie by My Side” for copyright on October 14, 1852, depositing a title page on that day as well. An arrangement of “Maggie by My Side” with guitar accompaniment was entered and deposited for copyright on September 20, 1854, by Firth, Pond & Co.

According to Evelyn Foster Mornweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, “After his return from the South in March, 1852, Stephen published that year ‘Massa’s in de Cold Ground,’ ‘The Hour for Thee and Me,’ ‘I Cannot Sing Tonight,’ and ‘Maggie by My Side.’”