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Raven McDavid Articles
McDavid, Raven Ioor (1911-1984)
[1960-1981]
Originally housed in a single folder labelled Complete Set of Xeroxes of Raven McDavid's Articles, these files contain photocopies of printed, typed and draft articles and papers by McDavid, mainly re...
Folktales: Miscellaneous 2
[1970-1973]
This file contains items relating to folklore and folktale, including folktales from Sub-Saharan Africa. This includes a photocopy of an ms. paper by Lindi Shembi Williams of the University of Botswan...
Traditional Song: General
1963-1979
This file contains items relating to aspects of traditional music, and includes a copy of 'The Health of Man', a collection of traditional songs from Bedfordshire, Yorkshire, Suffolk and Lancashire, c...
Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 3
1960-1979
This file contains a photocopy of Vivienne Furze's paper on the Devonshire dialect, from an unidentified publication, pp. 20-21; an ms. orthographic and phonetic transcription of Purbeck marblers' dia...
Folklife Research in the Jewish Community
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1963-1974
This file includes copies of Stewart Sanderson's 'Proposals for Folk Life Research Amongst the Jewish Community in Leeds', (February 1963); correspondence with Dr. Zvi Sofer of the University of Gött...
Ballads: General
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains the typed text of a song written about celebrations at Rothwell on the jubilee of George III (25 October 1809), collected by Peter Brears; a photostat copy of the text for 'England ...
Folk Song: General
1959-1981
This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from a...