Except for some privately printed juvenilia, this was the first separate publication issued under Baums authorship. As Louis F. Baum, the future childrens book writer earned his earliest national recognition as the author and star of the mildy succesful Irish melodrama Maid of Arran, based on William Blacks popular Scottish novel, A Princess of Thule (1873).
On the second leg of the national tour, Baum had printed up a collection of the six of the songs in the show all composed by the author and star himself to be sold in the lobby of the theater where the play was appearing.
Only a few copies of this fragile pamphlet are known to have survived, two in institutions.
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