Macfie and Prideaux correspondence. Bound volume.
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Macfie and Prideaux correspondence. Bound volume.
Classmark: BC MS ROM 1/2/21
Original reference: BC MS Rom 1/1115
Creator(s): Macfie, R A Scott (1868-1935)
Date(s): 29/11/1909 - 30/08/1910
Size and medium: 5 postcards; 9 letters
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/504909
Collection group(s): Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections
Description
Bound volume[so entitled] of correspondence with Colonel William Francis Prideaux;
Consists of:
1)5 postcards from Scott Macfie [Gypsy Lore Society letterhead]
2)7 letters from from Scott Macfie [Gypsy Lore Society letterhead]
Both referencing studies of Romany language including the vocabulary of J. S. Harriott and a review for the Journal of Gypsy Lore Society.
3)2 letters from Ranking to Colonel William Francis Prideaux 15-23 March 1910 concerning proposed June 1910 meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society in London. From 9 Overstrand Mansions, Battersea Park, London S.W.
Physical characteristics
Measurement details: Letters from Ranking , pp. 2, 25 X 20 cm.
Provenance
2 letters from Ranking were originally separate and described in the (1962) Romany Catalogue as a seperate item [1115] to the correspondence from Macfie [1107]
System of arrangement
Most have been bound in chronological order with a couple of exceptions.
Access and usage
Reproduction
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