Content: Professional copy, lacking cover.
Content: Summary: Jim and Nell are sweethearts in love; Jim finds a new love while Nell is heartbroken but hopefull; years later Jim becomes a soldier and Nell a Red Cross nurse; Nell finds Jim dying on the battlefield and recalls to him her words of hopeful reconciliation.
Statement Of Responsibility: written and composed by James Thornton.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 score (6 p.) ; 31 cm.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b10826013
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b21757455
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 0145be40-c591-012f-f6eb-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

Date Issued

1896

Cite this item

MLA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Don't give up the old love for the new" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1896. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0145be40-c591-012f-f6eb-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1896). Don't give up the old love for the new Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0145be40-c591-012f-f6eb-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Don't give up the old love for the new" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 14, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0145be40-c591-012f-f6eb-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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