English and Scottish popular ballad research materials, 1849-1914.

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English and Scottish popular ballad research materials, 1849-1914.

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The materials included in these volumes are primarily concerned with Francis James Child's study of English and Scottish ballad text, though there are also materials relating to ballads of other geographical regions, and also to his other research interests such as Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. There are also materials concerning his early studies in Germany. The volumes here are primarily organized to reflect the order of his published edition: The English and Scottish popular ballads (1882-1898). These collected supporting materials include autograph manuscripts of Francis James Child and George Lyman Kittredge and many others, bibliographies, clippings, letters, lists, musical notation for ballads, notes, reviews, indexes, postcards, printed materials, scrapbooks, subscription and mailing lists, transcriptions of ballad text, and translations. Some of the prominent names associated with this collection are: Peter Buchan, Frederick James Furnivall, Sven Grundtvig, Jan Kartowicz, William Macmath, William Motherwell, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and many others.

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Child, Francis James, 1825-1896

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Kartowicz, Jan, 1836-

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Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924

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Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910

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Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 1781?-1851

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English antiquary and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to an unidentified recipient, 1838 Mar. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662531 ...

Motherwell, William, 1797-1835

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Buchan, Peter, 1790-1854

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Macmath, William, 1844-1922.

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