| Description | Volume of music MS sewn into stiff paper covers; 14ff., one of which has only marginal portion remaining; endorsed 'Folk-Song I. James Bruce Duncan'; contains: tunes for folk songs or ballads with words of first verse written underneath, notes by James Bruce Duncan on other ballads sung to the same tune, provenance and published variants; the contents were later copied by Mary Ann Crichton into MS 786 as Nos. 1-49; the items were mainly from the parents and other relatives of James Bruce Duncan. |