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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
6 - Papers relating to broadcasts, musical presentations, lectures, and conference papers of Helena Mennie Shire
1 - Papers relating to radio broadcasts and recordings which Helena Mennie Shire compiled or was involved in
2 - Papers relating to musical presentations and concerts of Scottish poetry/song involving Helena Mennie Shire
3 - Papers relating to lectures given by Helena Mennie Shire to groups and societies, mainly Musica Scotica
1 - Notes for talk entitled 'The Tradition of Words, 1640-1715' given to the Women's Research Club, Cambridge, announcing launch of Musica Scotica project
2 - Notes for lectures on the Musica Scotia project, court music of Scotland, and musick fyne.
3 - Draft mss for lectures: 'Song in Scotland: Newly Discovered - 4 Talks with Argumentative Introduction by Helena Shire and David Daiches' 'Song in Sixteenth Century Scotland'.
4 - Ms and typescript copies of lecture presented by Helena Mennie Shire to Edinburgh Branch of the Saltire Society, 15 Jan 1955, 'Song in Sixteenth Century Scotland'.
5 - Correspondence to Helena Mennie Shire relating to lecture about Scotland given to the Royal India, Pakistan and Ceylon Society of London summer school at Newnham College, Cambridge
6 - Draft ms and typescript of lecture 'Court-song in sixteenth century Scotland' given at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 22 Feb 1968
7 - Draft ms and typescript of lecture given to Edinburgh Bibliographical Society (oerhaps published 1969)
8 - Typescript and notes for lecture on Gavin Douglas' "Eneados" (see also MS 3407/6/4/8/1 below)
9 - Draft ms and book with notes for lecture 'Music and Poetry - Style King James V' given at Glasgow University, 10 Mar 1976, with copy of programme for Music in the University of Glasgow series programme, 1975-76
10 - Draft ms for lecture on 'Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight'
11 - Draft mss for talk on 'Musica Scotica' detailing Helena Mennie Shire's life work n the music of Scotland
12 - Draft ms for lecture to Newcastle Saltire Society on 'The play of the poet and the King - Alexander Montgomerie and King James VI of Scots'
13 - Notes relating to lecture on 'Image and Likeness of the King of Scots in the 16th Century'.
14 - Draft ms and notes for lecture on 'Courtly Song in Seventeenth Century Scotland'.
15 - Draft letter (part) Helena Mennie Shire to Dr Fiske offering talk on 'The Festival and the Lyric'. (Closed)
16 - Miscellaneous notes on Scottish poets including Gavin Douglas, Henryson, Dunbar, and also for talk/paper headed 'Culture contact and culture conflict in Scots poetry 1500-1700'
17 - Notes for a talk on 'The Auld Alliance' given to British Council Summer School - with notes 'On Burns' in handwriting of Sebastian Carter, ninth of May editor, dated 1952.
18 - Draft ms for lecture on Ivy Compton Burnett and Virginia Woolf
19 - Draft ms for lecture 'As you Like it'
4 - Materials relating to conference Helena Mennie Shire attended and papers she presented
7 - Miscellaneous research papers
8 - Material presented to Helena Mennie Shire by colleagues and friends
9 - Miscellaneous material
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