Collinson, Francis Montgomery, 1898-1984 (Scottish folk song collector, composer, director, and musicologist)

Scope and Contents Volume containing the manuscript minutes of the West Port/Bow Yearly Society, c 1825. The minutes and accounts are largely obscured, owing to the numerous clippings and exceprts pasted in that form a scrapbook of ballads.The broadside clippings, where identified, are all printed between 1831 and 1835. Most are printed in Edinburgh, with 7 printed in Reading, England.The collator of the scrapbook is unknown, but the names of some members of the Yearly Society are...