Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS a/786
Title
Ballad, “May Song”
Date(s)
- 1872 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 folded sheet
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Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of A. J. Munby, 2 May 1910.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
MS ballad written, as noted by A. J. Munby, by a girl of sixteen, a labourer’s daughter in a town to the west of Turvey, Bedfordshire.
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Notes area
Note
Laid in loose to the front of John Harland’s Ballads & Songs of Lancashire. (London: Whitaker & Co., 1865). Library shelfmark Munby.d.260