Record ID:
222547
Creator:
Fletcher, J.
Title:
When I saw sweet Nellie home / sung by Edwin Green ; words by Frances Kyle ; music by J. Fletcher.
Published:
Portland [Me.] : J. S. Paine, c1856.
Notes:
Title, [1]; blank, [2] (also numbered 186); music, 3-5 (also numbered 187-189); blank, [6] (also numbered 190).
Possible first edition of the sheet music.
Caption title.
Title on cover: When I Saw Sweet Nelly Home.
For solo voice and chorus (SATB) with piano.
"Gems of the minstrelsy, Perham's Opera Vocalists, The rail road ... written & composed by H. S. Cartee."--P. [1].
Titles on p. [1]: 4.
Song first published in the 1850s and widely performed as a minstrel ballad.
"Lee Mallory, del. J. G. Chandler Lith., Boston"--P. 1
Associated names:
Mallory, Lee, illustrator.
Chandler, John Greene, 1815-1879, lithographer.
Kyle, Frances.
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