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The Calvert Manuscript
Calvert, George
[1960s-1970s]
Photocopy of a manuscript compiled by George Calvert of Kirkby Moorside, and completed by his son, Alfred Calvert, for Sir Martin Stapleton. The original manuscript (dated 1823) consists of a collecti...
The Fowler Manuscript
Fowler, Wilelmine M E
[1960s-1970s]
Bound photocopy of Wilelmine Fowler's manuscript, 'Yorkshire Sayings and Superstitions Collected in the Neighbourhood of Wakefield' ( ca. 1890s). Fowler intended the manuscript for publication in the ...
The Greenwood Manuscript
Greenwood, Harry
[1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript compiled by Harry Greenwood of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, being memoirs of local life and traditions prior to World War Two. The manuscript appears to ...
The Kellet Manuscript
Kellet, G R
[1970s]
The first file contains a photocopy of a manuscript by G. R. Kellet, being a memoir of growing up in Hunslet, Leeds, in the 1920s and 1930s. Although biographical, the manuscript includes descriptions...
The Courtney Manuscript and Related Papers
1973-1974
This file contains papers relating to the republication of Margaret Courtney's 'Cornish Feasts and Folklore' (originally published Penzance: Beare, 1890). Tony Green, lecturer at the Institute of Dial...
Clapham Town End Manuscript
Buck, Charles William (1851-1932)
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of an ms. collection of song texts and tunes, made by Dr. Charles William Buck of Giggleswick (North Yorkshire), ca. 1885-1902. Many of the songs appear to have been har...
The Gregor-Crombie Manuscript of Riddles and Proverbs
Gregor, Mr; Crombie, Mr
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of an undated ms. collection of proverbs and riddles, [121] leaves.
A New Look at an Old Manuscript and its Author
Neale, Brenda Ann
1975
Research project involving work on a manuscript of miscellaneous folklore items, collected by Wilhelmine Fowler and originally sent to the Folk Lore Society in February 1894 for possible publication i...
The Calvert Folklore Manuscript, by George and Alfred Calvert
Annis, Paul
1978
The focus of this study is a manuscript containing items of Yorkshire folklore collected by George Calvert of Kirkby Moorside (North Yorkshire) in the early nineteenth century. Two-fifths of the manus...
An Edition of George Butterworth's Folk Music Manuscripts
Dawney, Michael
1975
The abstract in this M.Phil. thesis states: George Butterworth collected folk music in England between 1906 and 1913. In collecting folk songs, he was sometimes accompanied by Francis Jekyll or Ralph ...
Manuscript Collection of Folk Songs made by Janet Blunt
University Microfilms Limited
[1970s]
Microfilm copy of the ms. collection of folk songs from Adderbury (Oxfordshire) made by Janet Heatley Blunt. The copy was made for Michael Pickering, who used the manuscript as a basis for his Ph.D. t...
The Passing of a Community and its Songs: A Study Based on the Unpublished Manuscript Collection of Songs from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire, made by Janet Heatley Blunt
Pickering, Michael J
1978
Ph.D. thesis concerned primarily with the social background to traditional English song, as found in the manuscript collection made by Miss Janet Blunt in Adderbury, North Oxfordshire. The Introductio...