No mention of this song in Spaeth's History of Popular Music in America; Hamm's Yesterdays: Popular Song in America; Dichter & Shapiro's Handbook of Early American Sheet Music 1768-1889; Sanjek's American Popular Music and Its Business, vols. 1-2; Mattfeld's Variety Music Cavalcade: Musical-Historical Review 1620-1961; and some other books.