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MS 3407 - Helena Mennie Shire, literary scholar: papers
1 - Personal papers
2 - Correspondence
3 - Papers relating to Helena Mennie Shire's academic career
4 - Papers and correspondence relating to Helena Mennie Shire's teaching career at Cambridge
5 - Papers and correspondence relating to Helena Mennie Shire's published works
1 - 'Song, Dance and Poetry of the Court of Scotland Under King James VI'
2 - 'A Preface to Spenser' and related Spenser work
3 - 'Music of Scotland 1500-1700' by Helena Shire and Kenneth Elliot from 'Musica Britannica' volume XV, (London, Stainer & Bell, 1957) and related projects.
4 - 'Alexander Montgomerie: a selection of his songs and poems' (Edinburgh, Saltire Society, 1960) and related research.
5 - 'Poems from Panmure House' (Cambridge, The Ninth of May, 1960).
1 - Two drafts of 'Poems from Panmure House' with publishers annotations.
2 - Duplicate drafts of 'Poems from Panmure House'.
3 - Early drafts of a commentary on the ballad 'The Leesome Brand' or 'The Sheath and the Knife', subsequently printed in 'Poems from Panmure House'.
4 - Rough notes and drafts and material for 'Poems from Panmure House', mainly relating to 'The Sheath and the Knife'.
5 - Rough transcriptions of 'Littel Musgrave' (from Robert Edward's Commonplace Book, also referred to as Panmure Eleven) - subsequently printed in a separate Ninth of May Edition in 1973.
6 - Rough notes about, and transcriptions of texts from, Robert Edward's Commonplace Book.
7 - Photostat copy of ms of Robert Edward's Commonplace Book (negative image).
8 - Publisher's advertising material for 'Poems from Panmure House'.
9 - Review of 'Poems from Panmure House' by Henry H Malone, University of Wichita, from 'Western Folklore', Vol XXI, Apr 1962, No 2, pp129-130.
10 - Orders for 'Poems from Panmure House'.
11 - Correspondence of Helena Shire concerning research, publication, and other matters relating to 'Poems from Panmure House' (Closed):
6 - 'Poems and Songs of Sir Robert Ayton' (Cambridge, The Ninth of May, 1961) and related research.
7 - 'The Thrissil, the Rois and the Fleur-de-Lys' (Cambridge, The Ninth of May, 1962).
8 - 'King Orphius, Sir Colling, The Brother's Lament, Litel Musgrave' (Cambridge, The Ninth of May, 1973).
9 - 'The Sheath and the Knife or Leesome Brand' (Cambridge, The Ninth of May, 1974) (published as a broadsheet). Orders for 'The Sheath and the Knife or Leesome Brand', including National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, and Blackwells Books, Oxford.
10 - The Ninth of May, miscellaneous materials.
11 - Material relating to Helena Mennie Shire's research on the writer and poet Olive Fraser.
12 - Articles and essays published in journals, anthologies, newspapers etc (relating predominately to Musica Scotica)
13 - Reviews written by Helena Mennie Shire
6 - Papers relating to broadcasts, musical presentations, lectures, and conference papers of Helena Mennie Shire
7 - Miscellaneous research papers
8 - Material presented to Helena Mennie Shire by colleagues and friends
9 - Miscellaneous material
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