A Paul Morphy Oddity

Perusing the May-June edition of the American Chess Bulletin I came across this peculiar blurb:

"A link between these days and the Morphy period was found in the person of Charles T. Work of the Hotel Lexington, Atlantic City, where a portion of the chess party sojourned during the time of the tournament. Mr. Work's brother, now dead, was Henry C. Work, a noted New England composer of many of the popular songs of his day, such as 'Marching Through Georgia,' 'Grandfather's Clock' and 'Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now.' The composer had also been a strong chess player and, according to his brother, was often the opponent of Paul Morphy."

Henry Clay Work was an interesting man. He was five years older than Morphy and died a month before him. While he lived and worked in Hartford Conn. (though born in Quincy, Ill., where his father had been put into prison for harboring runaway slaves, enticing him to move his family to Conn.), his biography says he moved to Chicago in 1855 where he lived until 1871. He lived in Philadelphia for a time and finally moved to Bath, N.Y. in 1882. He died in Hartford, Conn. on June 8, 1884.  It's pretty unclear to me when and where he and Morphy might have met and played.  I tried to track down Work's chess activity (such as club membership), but with no success. If he met Morphy - and Morphy played him often, as his brother asserts, then Work would have had to have been a decent player - even if the games were at Rook odds.

How many beautiful games guys like Morphy had played(with guys like Henry C. Work), which the world will never see?...