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Nursery rhymes.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Tales in rhymed verse for children.

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. III`, mostly containing material for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 2, in continuation of Adv.MS.50.1.2, but also including scripts, notes or proofs for tales bound out of series and published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 1 and the earlier part of volume 2., 1859-1860.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.3(Part 1)
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Tale of the Soldier/The Old Soldier` or ‘Sgeulachd an t-Saighdear/An Saighdear`, English (folio 2) and Gaelic (folio 10) versions, the latter as transcribed by Hector Urquhart from John MacDonald, Inveraray, 1860. ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 2, pages 276-285. With a corrected proof of the Gaelic text (folio 9 verso), and a covering letter (folio 14) of Urquhart to John Francis Campbell, 23 January 1860. (Folio...
Dates: 1859-1860.

Papers collected by the Rymour Club, chiefly containing material not printed in the ‘Miscellanea’., ?19th century-?early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.3768
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Two sets of corrections to T G Stevenson's 'Sempill ballates’, with notes (folio 1);(ii) Popular rhymes (folio 17), with a girls' singing-game (folio 28) and a skipping-rope rhyme (folio 29);(iii) Children's rhymes and a game (folio 30);(iv) Proverbs and sayings (folio 47);(v) Stories (folio 57);(vi) Miscellaneous verse and prose (folio 64), including copies of five poems of Henry Scott...
Dates: ?19th century-?early 20th century.

'St Mungo's City', rhymes for children, by George W Slaney, (‘George Woden’)., 1941, 1966.

 File
Identifier: MS.19633
Scope and Contents

The title of each rhyme begins with a different letter of the alphabet, and additional verses representing 'ampersand' and written in 1966 have been tipped in at the end.

Dates: 1941, 1966.