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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
7 - Miscellaneous research papers
1 - Research Notebooks
2 - Miscellaneous unpublished articles, lectures and essays and related correspondence
3 - Miscellaneous papers relating to Music in Scotland 1500-1700 and Song, Dance and Poetry
1 - Drafts and notes for a paper entitled 'Where is Constable's Cantus? A ost manuscript of Scottish Song before 1600'. Intended as a chapter in the proposed volume of 'Studies in Scottish Music and Poetry 1500-1700' (predecessor of Song, Dance and Poetry.)
2 - Miscellaneous transcripts of lyrics for material relating to 'Studies in Scottish Music and Poetry 1500-1700' (subsequently referred to as SSMP). On the cover is an outline sketch of the chapters intended to be included in the work.
3 - File of transcriptions of lyrics for the Musica Scotica project taken from Panmure Eleven and Wode's Quintis.
4 - Trace of map of Britain showing the School of Piping on Skye, 1580-1730.
5 - 'The Men and the Manuscripts: Mure of Rowallan.' Handwritten ms for article or chapter.
6 - Miscallaneous fragments and notes relating to Musica Scotica.
7 - Miscallaneous fragments and notes relating to Musica Scotica.
8 - Notes taken from Thurston Dart's article 'Song 1500-1700'.
9 - Photocopies of two letters of receipt from Alexander Scott (held in the Scottish Record Office), with transcription and notes by Helena Mennie Shire.
10 - Outline plan for volume Studies in Scottish Music and Poetry (later revised to become "Song, Dance and Poetry"
11 - 'Song and poetry in Sixteenth-century Scotland'. Typescript. A draft of an introduction intended for the volume Studies in Scottish Music and Poetry
12 - List of sources for the "Musica Scotica" project Typescript.
13 - Drafts and notes from an early stage of Helena Mennie Shires ' proposed study of music in Scotland, relating mainly to James VI.
14 - 'Of May; Alexander Scott'. Typescript. Draft of chapter intended for Studies in Scottish Music and Poetry or Song Dance and Poetry of the Court of Scotland under King James VI
15 - 'King James and the Cherrie: a conjecture'. Typescript. Draft of chapter subsequently appearing in Song, Dance and Poetry of the Court of Scotland under King James VI
16 - 'Bannatyne's Bulk, 1568, and 'The Gude and Godlie Ballatis', 1578'. Typescript. Draft of chapter for Studies in Scottish Music and Poetry or Song, Dance and Poetry of the Court of Scotland under King James VI
17 - 'Sonnets' - typescript draft for chapter on Montgomerie's sonnets.
18 - Drafts and notes relating to 'The Unknown Castalian' (John Murray). Includes correspondence from C P Findlayson, Keeper of Manuscripts at University of Edinburgh Library, 1957-1960, relating to an ms of Murray's sonnets held at one time in the University's Drummond Collection
19 - Drafts and notes relating to 'The Unknown Castalian' (John Murray). Includes correspondence from C P Findlayson, Keeper of Manuscripts at University of Edinburgh Library, 1957-1960, relating to an ms of Murray's sonnets held at one time in the University's Drummond Collection
20 - Drafts and notes relating to 'The Unknown Castalian' (John Murray). Includes correspondence from C P Findlayson, Keeper of Manuscripts at University of Edinburgh Library, 1957-1960, relating to an ms of Murray's sonnets held at one time in the University's Drummond Collection
21 - Drafts and notes relating to 'The Unknown Castalian' (John Murray). Includes correspondence from C P Findlayson, Keeper of Manuscripts at University of Edinburgh Library, 1957-1960, relating to an ms of Murray's sonnets held at one time in the University's Drummond Collection
22 - Drafts and notes relating to 'The Unknown Castalian' (John Murray). Includes correspondence from C P Findlayson, Keeper of Manuscripts at University of Edinburgh Library, 1957-1960, relating to an ms of Murray's sonnets held at one time in the University's Drummond Collection
23 - Drafts and notes relating to 'The Unknown Castalian' (John Murray). Includes correspondence from C P Findlayson, Keeper of Manuscripts at University of Edinburgh Library, 1957-1960, relating to an ms of Murray's sonnets held at one time in the University's Drummond Collection
24 - Drafts and notes relating to 'The Unknown Castalian' (John Murray). Includes correspondence from C P Findlayson, Keeper of Manuscripts at University of Edinburgh Library, 1957-1960, relating to an ms of Murray's sonnets held at one time in the University's Drummond Collection
25 - Drafts and notes relating to 'The Unknown Castalian' (John Murray). Includes correspondence from C P Findlayson, Keeper of Manuscripts at University of Edinburgh Library, 1957-1960, relating to an ms of Murray's sonnets held at one time in the University's Drummond Collection
4 - Music and poetry under King James V, 1512-1537
5 - Miscellaneous papers relating to 'Style King James V'. Joint project of Helena Mennie Shire with Dr Janet Hadley Williams, subsequently published as "Stewart Style" in 1996
6 - Miscellaneous papers and notes relating to the Panmure music book, the John Forbes music book and other early research for "Musica Scotica"
7 - Papers relating to Helena Mennie Shire's research on festivals in Scotland (originally intended to be part of the volume of 'Studies in Scottish Music and Poetry' which was to become "Song Dance and Poetry of the Court of King James VI, and later intended to be published as a separate volume 'Festivals and ceremony, words and music in Scotland' c1970)
8 - Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to research
9 - Books and other printed matter from Helena Mennie Shire's library.
8 - Material presented to Helena Mennie Shire by colleagues and friends
9 - Miscellaneous material
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