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Collapse MS 998 - James Bruce Duncan, folksong collector: papersMS 998 - James Bruce Duncan, folksong collector: papers
Expand 1 - Collection of volumes bound in cloth containing records of folk-songs and folk-airs made by James Bruce Duncan1 - Collection of volumes bound in cloth containing records of folk-songs and folk-airs made by James Bruce Duncan
Expand 2 - Collection of notes and notebooks containing words of folk songs obtained from various contributors by James Bruce Duncan2 - Collection of notes and notebooks containing words of folk songs obtained from various contributors by James Bruce Duncan
Expand 3 - Collection of notebooks containing notes by James Bruce Duncan on ballad collections other than his own3 - Collection of notebooks containing notes by James Bruce Duncan on ballad collections other than his own
Expand 4 - Collection of notebooks containing copies of ballads from MS collections of Gavin Greig or concerning his library4 - Collection of notebooks containing copies of ballads from MS collections of Gavin Greig or concerning his library
Expand 5 - Collection of notebooks containing music of folk songs with words5 - Collection of notebooks containing music of folk songs with words
Expand 6 - Four volumes containing indices for volumes of folk song words and airs6 - Four volumes containing indices for volumes of folk song words and airs
Collapse 7 - Papers containing versions of folk songs and correspondence7 - Papers containing versions of folk songs and correspondence
Expand 1 - Correspondence and versions of words and music of folk songs sent by Mrs M Harper1 - Correspondence and versions of words and music of folk songs sent by Mrs M Harper
Expand 2 - Correspondence between Rev. George Williams and James Bruce Duncan2 - Correspondence between Rev. George Williams and James Bruce Duncan
Expand 3 - Collection of folk songs and folk airs with associated correspondence 3 - Collection of folk songs and folk airs with associated correspondence
Collapse 4 - Collection of folk songs and airs sent to James Bruce Duncan by his brother G.F. Duncan4 - Collection of folk songs and airs sent to James Bruce Duncan by his brother G.F. Duncan
1 - Letter: G.F. Duncan, enclosing versions of 'Beggar Laddie' and 'Bonnie Lass o' Benachie'
2 - As Above
3 - As Above
4 - As Above
5 - 'The High Rocks o' Pennan'
6 - 'The lawyer's bonnie Peggy'
7 - 'Bethelnie' or 'Jean o' Bethelnie'
8 - 'Castle Norrie' or 'Richard Story'
9 - 'There was a poor ploughboy'
10 - 'Sir Thomas of Winchbury' and 'The apprentice boy'
11 - 'The Sheffield apprentice'
12 - 'Noo I'm a poor forsaken maid'
13 - 'Oh for the innocent days I hae seen'
14 - 'The beggar laddie'
15 - 'Bonnie Lass o' Bennachie'
16 - 'The Blaeberry Courtship'
17 - 'The Blaeberry Courtship'
18 - 'The Bonnie House o' Airlie'
19 - 'Bonnie Jim o' Aberdeen'
20 - 'Bonnie lass of Bennachie'
21 - 'Castle Norrie'
22 - 'The Crook and the Plaid'
23 - 'The Duke of Gordon's three daughters'
24 - 'The Duke of Gordon's three daughters'
25 - 'The Emigrant's farewell'
26 - 'The Gaberlunzie Man', or 'The Auld Gaberlunzie'
27 - 'A gardener lad'
28 - 'The gloamin' star'
29 - 'Gregor's ghost'
30 - 'The high rocks o' Pennan'
31 - 'The hills o' Gallowa'
32 - 'Hush-aba-loo'
33 - 'The lawyer's bonnie Peggy'
34 - 'Learn, learn, fair Annie' or 'Fair Annie'
35 - 'McPherson's farewell'
36 - 'My heart it is sair'
37 - 'Never Be Me'
38 - 'Oh are ye gane love'
39 - 'O dinna cross the burn'
40 - 'On one Thursday evening'
41 - Music with words (not first verse), beginning 'Oh Sally, oh Sally'
42 - 'Prince Charlie', or 'When Charlie first cam to the north'
43 - 'The sailor's grave'
44 - 'The Sheffield apprentice'
45 - 'Sir James the Rose'; music and first verse
46 - 'Sir James the Rose'; complete text
47 - 'Sir Neil'; music and first verse
48 - 'Sir Neil'; complete text
49 - 'The travellers' return'; music and words
50 - 'Tifty's Annie'; music and first verse
51 - 'Tifty's Annie'; complete text
52 - 'Under the moon'; music and words
Expand 5 - Collection of children's playsongs and rhymes made by A. Macdonald; with relevant correspondence5 - Collection of children's playsongs and rhymes made by A. Macdonald; with relevant correspondence
Expand 8 - James Bruce Duncan: folksong collection papers8 - James Bruce Duncan: folksong collection papers
Expand 9 - Lecture notes, cuttings and other papers9 - Lecture notes, cuttings and other papers
10 - Collection of cuttings from 'Buchan Observer'
11 - Collection of cuttings from 'Glasgow Weekly Herald'
Expand 12 - James Bruce Duncan: folksong collection papers12 - James Bruce Duncan: folksong collection papers
Expand 13 - Collection of letters and papers sent by Gavin Greig to James Bruce Duncan and drafts of some replies13 - Collection of letters and papers sent by Gavin Greig to James Bruce Duncan and drafts of some replies
Expand 14 - Collection of letters written by Miss Mary Ann Crichton to James Bruce Duncan14 - Collection of letters written by Miss Mary Ann Crichton to James Bruce Duncan
Expand 15 - Collection of letters from Miss Bell Robertson to James Bruce Duncan15 - Collection of letters from Miss Bell Robertson to James Bruce Duncan
Expand 16 - Collection of 'general correspondence' on folk song and related topics addressed to James Bruce Duncan (unless otherwise stated)16 - Collection of 'general correspondence' on folk song and related topics addressed to James Bruce Duncan (unless otherwise stated)
17 - Volume of music MS
18 - Volume of music MS
19 - Volume of music MS
20 - Volume of music MS
Expand 21 - James Bruce Duncan: folksong collection papers21 - James Bruce Duncan: folksong collection papers
Expand 22 - Collection of music MSS of 'tunes not required or rewritten'22 - Collection of music MSS of 'tunes not required or rewritten'
Expand 23 - Fragments of verse and xerox of extract23 - Fragments of verse and xerox of extract
24 - Photocopies of correspondence of Mr. Paul Duncan

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