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List of song titles, separated by publisher or composer, by Louisa Crawford. Including Crouch, Jefferys, Nelson, Leoni Lee, Chappell, Addison and D'Almaine.

Scope and Contents Poem titled "On hearing Miss Catherine Hays [sic], sing "Kathleen Mavourneen!" by Crofton Gray" in the hand of Louisa Matilda Crawford. "Kathleen Mavourneen" was Crawford's most successful song, set to music by composer Frederick Crouch and hugely popularised in America by Irish soprano Catherine Hayes on her international tour. The first lines read, "Oh! Sing again, sweet maiden sing / That lovely strain which first I heard / When this lone heart was in its spring / And throbb'd to every...

Scope and Contents

Stitched booklet titled "List of songs by Mrs Crawford. What airs they were written to, and what composers set them subsequently." The songs are divided under four headings; "Scotch," "Welsh," "Irish," and "Anthia Variosa." The majority of the songs are attributed to composers Frederick Crouch or Samuel Wesley. A crossed letter, much of the text is overlayed and difficult to read.