The Childs First Grief

Sheetmusic at:

Childs first grief / by Max Braun
The child's first grief, op. 11 / by Max Braun.

At the first link:

Braun, Max.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Brooklyn, NY: P. K. Weizel, 1854.
NOTES
In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860
SUBJECTS
Songs with piano
RELATED TITLES
Music for a nation: American sheet music, 1820-1860.
MEDIUM
1 score
CALL NUMBER
M1.A12V vol. 64 Case Class original bound volumes
PART OF
American 19th-century sheet music. Copyright deposits, 1820-1860
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress. Music Division.
DIGITAL ID
sm1854 560340 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/sm1854.560340


At the second link:

The child's first grief, op. 11 / by Max Braun.
Braun, Max.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Brooklyn, NY: P. K. Weizel, 1854.
NOTES
In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860
SUBJECTS
Songs with piano
RELATED TITLES
Music for a nation: American sheet music, 1820-1860.
MEDIUM
1 score
CALL NUMBER
M1.A12Z vol. 59 Case Class original bound volumes
PART OF
American 19th-century sheet music. Copyright deposits, 1820-1860
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress. Music Division.
DIGITAL ID

Neither of these two credits "Felicia D. Hemans" as the lyric author, although the second (on page 2) has a dedication to "Adelaide H. Metcalf, of Damairscotta "Maine.""

There are minor variations in the text, but this is apparently "the same poem" set to music.

Both copies show submitted to LOC for copyright in 1854. This is prior to the book in which the poem is shown, but it remains unknown when "Felicia" may have written the poem.

John