| Description | Bears title-page "Index to the Ballads and Ballad Fragments in 5 volumes MSS. collected by Gavin Greig M.A. 1908-1914"; notes are added by William Walker on method of compilation from source or singer, original manuscripts or subsequent enquiries; also includes "private notes" sent to William Walker by Miss Mary Ann Crichton in a letter of 25 November 1919; at the end are notes by William Walker regarding sources of texts collected by James Bruce Duncan and negotiations with his daughter regarding the preservation of his manuscripts (see also MS 2732/30/23, 24); pasted in at the back are specimen proofs of pp. 29-32 of proposed "Folk Music and Song of North Eastern Scotland", containing text and airs and notes on ballad "The Duke of Atholl's Nurse" (cf. Last Leaves, 134-136). Volume roughly bound in thin paper covers, consisting of slips arranged in alphabetical order, and notes, pasted into the pages of a copy of The Spectator dated 16th July 1921, compiled by William Walker. |