Ruairidh Greig wrote:
>
> In his introduction to English Folksongs, Barrett claims that it is part of
> a large collection. He died in 1891, leaving his books and papers to his son
> Frances. He died in1925 and some or all of his Father's collection was sold
> at Hodgson's Rooms in June1925. Where is the Harding collection? Thank you
> for the other leads.
> Regards
> Ruairidh Greig
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bruce Olson <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: 16 April 1999 02:39
> Subject: Re: W.A.Barrett
>
> > Ruairidh Greig wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any ideas on the following:
> > > Which institutions were actively buying folksong-related materials at
> > > auction in London in 1925? ( in addition to British Library and Folger
> > > Library, Washington DC)
> > > Why would W.A.Barrett ( editor of English Folksongs, Novello, London
> > > (1891) ) be awarded an honorary doctorate in music by the University
> > > of Toronto in the 1880s?
> > > Ruairidh Greig
> >
> >
> >
Do you know for certain if the collection was sold as a single block?
If you can find the auction sale catalogs, then you know what was
sold as a block, and know better what to hunt for. There's no way
to guess a priori whether items, other than broadside ballads and
single sheet songs with music, were sold as a block or individually.
Broadside ballad and single sheet song with music collections
were usually sold as a block, but songbook collections were
sometimes broken up. However, both Folger and Huntington have
single sheet songs with music collections that were from Henry
Huth, but evidently in already-bound volumes, suggesting that
Huth bought several already bound volumes, and they were
subsequently sold as bound volumes.
NLS -Lauriston Castle collection of chapbooks has a number of
Huth's garlands (17th century ones) that seem to have come in a
block (c #2910-2935), but others do not seem to have been in this
block, or even in the same block, #3014, 3093, & 3163.
The Lauriston Castle collection also has a number of prose
chapbooks that were once those of James Maidment. Maidment bound
his collection of Scots song chapbooks into two volumes. The one
of earlier imprints (1733 - c 1749) is in the Folger Shakespeare
Library, and the other (c 1750 -1794) is across the street in the
Library of Congress.
Harvard has the Julien Marshall collection of single sheet songs
with music, but Marshal's songbook collection was apparently
broken up. I have one 18th century songbook with Marshall's
bookplate in it (being my whole collection of 18th century
songbooks). I've also seen single songbooks from Henry
Huth's collection, but no group of Huth songbooks.
Heber's collection of broadside ballads were sold (1832?) as a
block, but about 6 were later removed (by J. O. Halliwell?) and
the rest ended up in the Euing collection. His Garlands were
listed seperately in the Heber sale catalog. A few are in the
Lauriston Castle collection.
So, by all means try to turn up a copy of the auction sale
catalog, or you may be hunting for a collection that no longer
exists as a single collection.
Bruce Olson
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