All that can presently (March 2021) be gleaned about Will Atkins from sheet music covers and by internet searching is that he has been featured on 2 works published in 1895.
Of interest is How Can I Break the News (1895) music by Charles Osborne, words by John S. Baker and published by R. Maynard, . His portrait on the sheet cover of this work is captioned proclaiming that he sang the song with enormous success.
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