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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 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 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...
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.
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.
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...
An apology for the life of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew : commonly call'd the King of the beggars; being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton school, at the age of fifteen, and entering into a society of gypsies, to the present time... with his travels twice through great part of America. A particular account of the original government, languages, laws and customs of the gypsies ... And a parallel drawn after the manner of Plutarch, between Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew and Mr. Thomas Jones
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?); Goadby, Robert (1721-1778); Goadby, Mrs Robert
[between 1760 and 1769?]
Dedication "To the Worshipful Justice Fielding", attacking Tom Jones, signed: The historiographer to Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew. "This was... his own autobiography, dictated by him to some literary a...
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. ...
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 life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the Beggars... : being a true account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School at the age of fifteen, and entering into a society of gypsies ... : with his travels twice through great part of America : giving a particular account of the origin, government, laws and customs of the gipsies, with the method of electing their king ; to which is added a dictionary of the cant language used by the mendicants
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?); Price, Thomas (1787-1848); Goadby, Robert (1721-1778); Goadby, Mrs Robert
1802
One of the numerous versions with varying titles the authorship of which has been ascribed variously to Thomas Price, Robert Goadby, Mrs. Goadby and Carew himself.