Collations of Robin Hood ballads in the Pepys Collection, Magdalene College, Cambridge : manuscript, 1886.

Pepys Library.

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Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941

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George Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860 – July 23, 1941) was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th century. He was also involved in American folklore studies and was instrumental in the formation and management of the Harvard University Press. One of his better-known books concerned witchcraft in England. Kittredge was born in Boston in 1860. His father, Edward "Kit" Lyman Kittredg...

Skeat, Walter William, 1866-1953

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Walter William Skeat was born and educated at Cambridge, where he studied classics. As a colonial administrator in Selangor, he developed an interest in Malay culture, and shared leadership of a scientific expedition into uncivilized Malay states and Thailand in 1899-1900. As a result, he wrote and published the first comprehensive study of Malay and Malayan aboriginal beliefs and customs, and also donated a collection of artifacts to the British Museum from his trip. An illness contracted on th...

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...