Scope and Contents Contents: She's the Queen of the Tonga Islands -- My bonnie lies over the ocean -- Sing a song of sixpence -- Girls get a home of your own -- The Never Even's Sang -- Bob Ingersoll -- The man that wouldn't hoe corn -- Little brown jug -- Skip to Maloo -- My brother -- I bought a wife the tenth of June -- Coo Coo -- Shew Li -- I went down town -- Old Rosin the beau -- Oh babe, my home is on the bayou -- Just kiss yourself goodby -- Nelly Bly -- Song and rhymes -- The squirrel is a handsome...

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Contents: Falling leaves -- The aged Indian -- Uncle Lohido -- An Indian legend -- Pretty Maumee -- Pretty Mohea.

Scope and Contents Contents: In the glooming -- Sweet bunch of daisies -- Anna Lee -- I am lonely tonight without you -- Kitty Clyde -- 'Tis true, dear heart, we're fading -- While the leaves come drifting down -- My heart's tonight in Texas -- She was bred in old Kentucky -- I've a longing in my heart -- A song for the girl I love -- Will you love me when I'm old -- Dear heart, we're growing old -- Down among the daisies -- Lorena -- After the game -- The two drummers -- After the honeymoon -- Blue-eyed boy...

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Contents: Beautiful star -- Lavender -- The little robin -- Come, birdie, come -- Beautiful bird of Spring -- Who shot Cock Robin -- The old cow -- Little bluebird in the tree -- My bonny black Bess -- Birdies' Ball -- The old gray mule -- A terrible tale -- Under the snow -- Old dog tray.

Scope and Contents Contents: Kitty Wells -- Song sung by Negros in Georgia -- Hangman's tree -- Chicken pie -- Some people say dat Niggahs don't steal -- Black dem boots and make dem shine -- Run, Nigger, run -- Lorena -- Come along home Lucinda -- Fragments -- Ole Sukey Blueskin -- Down on de Missisippi floating -- Darling Nellie Gray -- Dearest May -- Old Massa -- Ella Ree -- Lucy Long -- Kingdom coming -- The sorrows of Yamba -- Poor Old Ned -- Wake Nicodemus -- I is goin' from de cotton field -- My Pete --...

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Contents: Song about the building of the Cheyenne Northern Railroad -- Drill ye tarriers, drill -- Baggage coach ahead -- The brakeman's dream -- Casey Jones -- Life's railway to Heaven.

Scope and Contents Contents: The house carpenter -- Gathering shells from the seashore -- A home bay on the tide -- Pull for the shore -- Nail, boys, nail -- My sweetheart went down with the Maine -- The old canoe -- Captain Kidd -- Drunken sailor -- Three sailor boys -- Fragment II -- Oh, Mr. Captain stop the ship n The Low Lands Low -- The Lady Elgin -- Red, white and blue -- Sailor's trade -- The ship that never returned -- The sailor's bride's lament -- Dublin Bay -- The ocean burial -- Little Nell --...

Scope and Contents Contents: On Jordon's stormy banks -- Jacob's ladder -- We'll stem the storm -- I want to be an angel -- Pulling hard against the stream -- Ever to the right boys -- Your mission -- The model church -- The reward of intoxicated hautiness -- Pass under the rod -- Two babes -- What is the use of repining -- Where there's a will there's a way -- Little brown church in the vale -- Sometime we'll understand -- Memorial hymn -- The death of a Romish lady -- The preacher's legacy -- Wicked Pollie...

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Handwritten and typewritten songs, stories, articles, term papers, and correspondence. Most of the items are American folklore and songs. They relate to many topics including the American Civil War of 1861 to 1865.