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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
Expand 7 - Papers containing versions of folk songs and correspondence7 - Papers containing versions of folk songs and correspondence
Collapse 8 - James Bruce Duncan: folksong collection papers8 - James Bruce Duncan: folksong collection papers
1 - 'The Elphin Knight'
2 - 'May Colvin'
3 - 'Simon's Lady'
4 - 'The Douglas Tragedy'
5 - 'The fair flower of Northumberland'
6 - 'Binnorie'
7 - 'Hind Horn', two versions
8 - 'Bonnie Annie'
9 - 'The Twa Magicians'
10 - 'Captain Wedderburn's Courtship'
11 - 'Fair Rosie Ann'
12 - 'Young Beichan'
13 - 'Cherry Tree Carol'
14 - 'Fair Ellen'
15 - 'Lord Lovel'
16 - 'Lord Gregory'
17 - 'Gil Morice'
18 - 'Thomas o' Winsbury'
19 - 'Rose the Red and White Lily'
20 - 'The Bailie's Daughter of Islington'
21 - 'Sweet William'
22 - Versions of either 'Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter' or 'The Shepherd Laddie'
23 - 'Johnnie o' Braidsleys'
24 - 'Queen Eleanor's Confession'
25 - 'The Battle of Harlaw'
26 - 'Johnnie Ha'', texts and notes
27 - Notes of variants for 'Fire of Frendraught', 'Bonnie Hoose o'Airlie', 'Gipsy Laddie' and 'Geordie'
28 - 'Bonnie Hoose o 'Airlie'
29 - 'The Three Gipsy Ladies'
30 - 'Geordie'
31 - 'The Duke of Atholl's Nurse'
32 - 'Dowie Dens o' Yarrow'
33 - Notes on variants of 'Dowie Dens o' Yarrow' and 'Willie's droon in Gamrie'
34 - 'Willie's drowned in Gamrie'
35 - 'Clyde's Water'
36 - 'The Broom of the Cowdenknowes'
37 - 'The False Lover won back'
38 - 'The Gardener'
39 - 'Katharine Jaffray' (fragments)
40 - 'Lizzie Lindsay'
41 - 'Glasgow Peggy'
42 - 'The Earl of Errol'
43 - 'Richie Story', text, with Deeside version 'Ritchie Tory'
44 - 'Tifty's Annie', fragment of text and notes
45 - Notes and reference for MSS. 998/8/36-44 and 'Earl o' Aboyne'
Collapse 46 - Fragments of text and music46 - Fragments of text and music
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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