Transcripts and notes concerning the "Brown manuscript" of Scottish popular ballads, 1793-1920.

Child, Francis James, 1825-1896

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The materials in this bound volume were generated due to a manuscript called the "Harris manuscript." The Harris manuscript was written down by the sisters Amelia Harris (1815-1891) and Jane Harris (1823-1897). They compiled a family repertoire of Scottish ballads, mainly passed on orally to the sisters by their mother, Grace Dow Harris (Mrs. David Harris) (b.1782). This manuscript and some correspondence was purchased in 1873 by Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University who was a scho...

Rosenbach, A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952

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Ritson, Joseph, 1752-1803

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Joseph Ritson (1752-1803), antiquarian and literary scholar, is best known for his concern for textual accuracy and as the editor of several poetry anthologies, including The Northumbrian Garland (1793). He also published Observations on...the History of English Poetry (1782) and the Bibliographia Poetica (1802). From the description of Joseph Ritson collection, 1782-1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132840 English literary antiquary. From the description o...

Robert Jamieson

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Mary Seton Fraser Tytler Watts

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Perry, Marsden J. (Marsden Jasiel), 1850-1935

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Joseph, Frank

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Galsford, Thomas

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Mary Fraser Tytler

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Laing, David

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David Laing (1793-1878), antiquary, was born in Edinburgh on 20 April 1793, son of William Laing, an Edinburgh bookseller. He attended Canongate Grammar School and Edinburgh University, before becoming a partner in his father's business in 1821. He was secretary of the Bannatyne Club, 1823-1861, and was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1826. He was made librarian of the Signet Library in 1837. Laing edited old Scottish ballads, metrical romances and many antiquarian wo...

Watts, Mary S., transcriber.

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Sim, Adam

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Mr. Pitcairns

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