Item 786 - Ballad, “May Song”

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Add. MS a/786

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Ballad, “May Song”

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  • 1872 (Creation)

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1 folded sheet

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Gift of A. J. Munby, 2 May 1910.

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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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      Laid in loose to the front of John Harland’s Ballads & Songs of Lancashire. (London: Whitaker & Co., 1865). Library shelfmark Munby.d.260

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