Pieces collected in Old Deer, Scotland : by Mrs. A. F. Murison for Professor Child : manuscript, 1876-1877.

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Pieces collected in Old Deer, Scotland : by Mrs. A. F. Murison for Professor Child : manuscript, 1876-1877.

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Contains English and Scottish ballads gathered in Deer Parish, Scotland. The letters concern Child's ballad research.

1 v. (viii, 140) ; 21 cm.

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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...

Murison, Elizabeth

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Murison, Alexander Falconer, 1847-1934

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