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Rev George Hall Collection
Hall, Rev George
1908-1918
Correspondence, notebooks, diaries and reports/loose notes documenting Hall's research and information gathering.Mainly concerned with (UK) Gypsy and Traveller biographies and genealogical details.
Correspondence
1908-1918
Letters addressed to Reverend George Hall (at Ruckland Rectory, Nr. Louth, Lincolnshire) from a number of correspondents across the UK, (one in the USA). Most reference Hall's own and other's literary...
Dyke (Watson), Letter to Mrs McGrigor Phillips.
02/05/1940
Handwritten letter (2 pages) from Watson Dyke (Leyburn,Yorkshire) to Dorothy Una Ratcliffe about his encounter with Native Americans in the USA and reference to Gypsies and Travellers in England.
Stow, (Edith)
15/Dec/1915 - 14/May/1918
Mainly typed letters from Edith Stow of Clyde, New York (USA) to Rev George Hall. References include American Gypsies and Travellers [Roma] and exchange and publication of works on related matters. ...
Photograph titled, "A Gypsy Madonna." by Alexander Alland. 1952
Alland, Alexander
c.1952
Black and white photograph of a woman nursing a baby. (The photograph has been altered to " blackout the childs face at the foot of picture.") In pencil it is labelled, "Frontispiece- A Gypsy Madonn...
Photograph, "Gypsy Children Sleeping." 1941
Alland, Alexander
Apr 1941
Photograph of children sleeping on the floor, with hand written caption on the reverse, "Gypsy Children Asleep. New York 1941."
Photograph of, " interior of Gypsy home," New York. 1941.
Alland, Alexander
Apr 1941
Mounted photograph with typed caption underneath that reads, "The interior of a Gypsy home is unlike any other to be seen in the city. Living much as they did in tents, flats are bare of furniture sav...
Borrow (George Henry)"Bunkers Hill " fragment.
1950
1) Holograph (handwritten) manuscript of a fragment beginning: “Bunkers Hill. The reader will probably say” and ending, “who has a word to say after that ?”
The life and adventures of Bamfylde-Moore Carew, the noted Devonshire stroller [sic] and dog-stealer
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?)
1745
An apology for the life of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, son of the Rev. Mr. Carew of Bickley, commonly known throughout the west of England by the title of King of the Beggars and Dog Merchant-General : containing, an account of his leaving Tiverton School, at the age of fifteen, and entering into a society of Gypsies; his many comical adventures... The whole taken from his own mouth
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?); Goadby, Robert (1721-1778); Goadby, Mrs Robert
[1749]
Variously ascribed to Robert Goadby and Mrs. Goadby. Cf. NUC pre-1956, Lowndes, Halkett & Laing. There are numerous versions, probably by various compilers, with varying titles, including: "An apolo...
The King of the beggars : Bampfylde-Moore Carew
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?); Price, Thomas of Poole; Goadby, Robert (1721-1778); Goadby, Mrs Robert; Wilkinson, Cyril Hackett (1888-1960)
1931
"Conclusive evidence of his popularity is furnished by the great number of editions [with varying titles] in which Carew's adventures are described at varying length. But his story as told in The life...
The King of the beggars : Bampfylde-Moore Carew
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?); Price, Thomas of Poole; Goadby, Robert (1721-1778); Goadby, Mrs Robert; Wilkinson, Cyril Hackett (1888-1960)
1931
"Conclusive evidence of his popularity is furnished by the great number of editions [with varying titles] in which Carew's adventures are described at varying length. But his story as told in The life...