Chapbooks.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Small books or pamphlets, usually cheaply printed and containing such texts as popular tales, treatises, ballads, or nursery rhymes, formerly peddled by chapmen. (AAT) .
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
‘Collection of Ballads, collected chiefly from tradition, by R. Pitcairn . . . Commenced Edinr., 1817', volume III: 'Romantic Ballads', British, chiefly taken from recitation., 1817-1823.
File
Identifier: MS.2915
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The verse is accompanied by notes by Robert Pitcairn.
Dates:
1817-1823.
Copies of correspondence of Elizabeth Steuart-Barclay of Coltness, concerning "The Laird of Cool's ghost" by William Ogilvie., 1788-1802, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.10785
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists chiefly of shortened versions of the letters of Henrietta Hog, William Oglivie's daughter, which Mrs Steuart-Barclay published in her edition of the text, pages 8-40. This is followed by a copy of the original chapbook of "The Laird of Cool's ghost" (Dunbar, undated).
Dates:
1788-1802, undated.