Notebooks manuscript [ca. 1883]
Published: 1883
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: English Ballads; Superstition; Social life and customs
Description: Contains ballads gathered by Robertson, observations concerning the ballads, and commentary on local Scottish customs and superstitions. Includes notes made by Macmath in his transcription of Robertson's manuscripts.
Notes: Transcription in an unknown hand of four notebooks, ca. 1830s, copied in Cambridge, Mass. (note by Francis James Child, p. 1), from a transcription of the original manuscripts made by William Macmath (1883).

Bound in half calf, rebacked, with marbled paper boards.

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MS Eng 1565. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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Purchase; no source; 1 Apr. 1884; recat. from 25241.19; 1880 Subscription fund.

Purchased with the 1880 Subscription fund, 1884.