| Description | Letter Gavin Greig, Whitehill, New Deer (Aberdeen) to James Bruce Duncan. Greig sending another volume of ballad records just completed for Duncan to go through; comments on version obtained of "Johnie Scot"; work on remaining records is continuing; notes will be sent on sources used by Bell Robertson and Annie Shirer, in addition to several listed here; would compile a note-book record of sources to save correspondence; discusses proposal made by the Beltane Society recently formed in Glasgow to publish some of the "bucolics and pastorals" which he had collected to illustrate and lecture given to them by Mr Ord on "Bothy Ballads"; [Inserted in MS 2732/1 between ff.11 and 12]. |