Folklore collection, 1974.

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Folklore collection, 1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70955450

Dubbings, collected from the Miramichi, N.B., area of Manny's original recordings known as the Lord Beaverbrook Collection of New Brunswick Folksong.

2 audiotapes (3 hr.)

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, Maine Folklife Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 8051024

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Wilson, James Reginald

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Manny, Louise

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Louise Manny, 1890-1970, provided Beaverbrook's ongoing contact with his native Newcastle. Their correspondence spans from 1946 to his death in 1964. Beaverbrook supported her in her historical research on the Miramichi, her folk song collecting, and her work in the development of the historic burial ground at Wilson's (Beaubair's) Point into a park named The Enclosure. In the early 1950s he appointed her in charge of the Old Manse Library, his boyhood home, where she continued until her death. ...