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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
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Ref NoMS 2732/11/1
TitleVolume labelled 'Miscellaneous Ballad Notes & Jottings 1885-1915, William Walker'
Date1885 - 1915
Extent1 item
DescriptionVolume covered in black cloth; labelled 'Miscellaneous Ballad Notes & Jottings 1885-1915, William Walker'; spine damaged and requiring repair; pages used for earlier entries have been excised; partly and variously paged; contains random biographical and bibliographical notes used by William Walker in the compilation of bibliographical lists for Professor Francis J. Child and in connection with his own 'Peter Buchan', including the following:
List of first appearance of ballads from introduction to W. Motherwell 'Minstrelsy' (1827 or 1873 ed.);
Notes from papers by W. Nacmath given to Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 1891-1892 and 1895;
List of ballad titles (annotated);
Annotated lists of manuscripts of P. Buchan in British Museum and at Harvard University or not in printed edition of 1828;
Notes on English Ballad writers, Mrs Brown of Falkland's ballads, Skene Ballad manuscript, songs in Motherwell's chap-books;
Notes on material gathered by Gavin Greig and James Bruce Duncan for 'Folk-song and music of the North East of Scotland' (as at 16 September 1919);
Notes on D. Herd's manuscripts, 'Canadian Boatsong', letters from Gavin Greig 1907-1908;
Also (inserted at end and in another hand) 'David Scott's list of Buchan's manuscripts, 1816-1827'.
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