Comprises the following items:
2185/LEB/2/ Parcel of broadsides and other printed ephemera. c.1800-1916
2185/LEB/2/100 Letter from William Albery, saddler and harness maker, of Horsham, to Lucy Broadwood at Carlisle Mansions, Westminster Thanks her for two letters and 'the folk song book'. 'Since I have been collecting old documents, books and all matter relating to Horsham and neighbourhood I have been much more careful in handling what often looks like rubbish and it was only by chance that these were saved and reached their fitting destination; yourself'. 26 Jul 1916
2185/LEB/2/101 The Prince of Wales's Primer or best introduction to spelling and reading, printed and published by A Park, 47 Leonard Street, Finsbury, London. Includes engraving of Albert, Prince of Wales, born 1841. Annotated 'Mary Ann Neal, Her Book'. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [post 1841]
2185/LEB/2/102 Loss of 300 Lives - Full particulars of the awful shipwreck, printed by WS Fortey, steam printer and publisher, of Great St Andrew Street, Bloomsbury, London. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. Includes descriptions of wreck of HMS Eurydice, 24 Mar 1878; disappearance of HMS Atalanta in the West Indies, Jan 1880; burning of the steam ship, Solway, 16 Nov 1881; cannibalism by survivors following loss of the Mignonette, 6 Sep 1884; loss of the paddle-steamer, Dolphin, 18 Sep 1885; collision of emigrant ship, the Kapunda, bound from Plymouth to Fremantle, 20 Jan 1887; and wreck of the White Star steamer, Atlantic, off Halifax, North America. nd [post 1887]
2185/LEB/2/103 The Little Child's Verse & Hymn Book, published by Houlston & Wright, 65 Paternoster Row, London, printed by Adam & King, 30 Goswell Street, London Annotated on flyleaf 'Emily Read and Mary Ann Read Book [sic]' Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/104 The Church Missionary Juvenile Instructor, no.9, vol IV, sold at the Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, London, and from other named book dealers. Profits from sale to go to Church Missionary Society. Printed by TC Johns, Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London. Annotated inside cover 'Emily Read'. Illustrated. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. Sep 1845
2185/LEB/2/105 The Mother of Doddridge teaching him scripture history from Dutch tiles. Illustrated pamphlet of pious poems and tales for children including brief notes on the life and work of Philip Doddridge (1702-1751), dissenting clergyman and hymn writer, who wrote The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul (1745). Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [?mid 19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/106 Hush! Hush! Illustrated moral tale for children about the sins of vanity and pride and the importance to young girls of wearing plain dress, remaining humble and dying quietly. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [?mid 19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/107 Two ways to do good and The Little Crusader Illustrated moral tales for children about the importance of giving a pauper child work rather than gifts; and fighting 'the holy war' to live a Christian life Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [? mid 19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/108 The Children's Jewish Advocate, vol.VI no.70, printed for the London Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, Lincolns Inn Fields, London, by the Operative Jewish Converts' Institution, Palestine Place, Bethnal Green. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. Oct 1860
2185/LEB/2/109 Puss in Boots. Children's story, illustrated with woodcuts of a windmill, a castle and Puss in Boots, [printer unknown]. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [?pre 1850]
2185/LEB/2/110 Old Mother Goose Children's rhyme illustrated with woodcuts. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [?pre 1850]
2185/LEB/2/111 ABC - Butterfly's Ball Children's rhyme illustrated with woodcuts. Annotated in manuscript: 'Fanny Worsfold' Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [?pre 1850]
2185/LEB/2/112 Susan's First Money by Mrs Sherwood, 'author of 'Seaside-stories' etc.' printed by Darton & Co, Holborn Hill, London. Illustrated moral tale for children concerning the importance of self-denial and generosity in the face of familial poverty. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [? mid 19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/113 Richard Noah Bailey, The Once Well Known Pugilist, Now A Christian Teetotal Advocate, Ipswich Temperance Tract no.329, printed by JM Burton & Co, Ipswich, Suffolk. Illustrated with line engraving of Bailey based on photograph taken by W Cobb. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [post 1838]
2185/LEB/2/114 Trial and execution at the Old Bailey of Franz Muller for the murder of Mr Briggs on the North London Railway Illustrated broadsheet printed by WS Fortey at the Catnach Press, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London [The trial took place on 27 Oct 1864] Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [?1864]
2185/LEB/2/115 Confession, Examination & Committal of Miss CE Kent for the murder at Road-Hill House Illustrated broadsheet printed by H Disley, 57 High Street, St Giles, London. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. In 25 Apr 1865, Constance Emilie Kent, of Frome Selwood, Wiltshire, surrendered herself to Bow-Street police court and confessed to the murder, five years previously, of her infant half-brother. At the magistrates' trial in Trowbridge, it was revealed that there was a history of insanity in her mother's line. She was committed to Devizes Gaol pending trial at the Salisbury Assizes in Jul 1866. nd [?1865]
2185/LEB/2/116 Broadsheet containing lyrics to over 100 'new and popular songs' printed by JT Wood, 278 & 279 Strand, London, including 'Wish me good night once more!'; 'Pretty Miss Ricketts!'; and 'The Stars Will Light Me Home!' Illustrated with portrait engraving of Nellie Power (d.1887), English music hall singer, in costume. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. Notes accompany some sets of lyrics denoting the publisher of the music including Hopwood & Crew's, London (estab 1860); and Sheard's, of Holborn. Includes songs popularised by the 'Christy Minstrels', a popular 19th cent music-hall act established in New York by Edwin Pearce Christy, manager and performer, c.1845; Nellie Power; Harry Rickards (1845-1911), singer, songwriter, actor-manager and proprietor of the Australian Tivoli Theatre Circuit; George Leybourne (1842-1884), English music hall singer (née Joe Sanders; from 1868, known as 'Champagne Charlie' after the song he popularized); Alfred Glenville Vance (stage name 'The Great Vance'), a music-hall star and rival of George Leybourne (1838?-88); and Harry Clifton (d.1872), English music-hall singer and songwriter. nd [1870 x 1900]
2185/LEB/2/117 Broadsheet containing lyrics to over 100 songs including 'That's The Style For Me Boys!', 'After Dark', 'Up in a Balloon' and 'The Shoreditch Toff' Illustrated with engraving of a dancing couple. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. Notes accompany some sets of lyrics denoting the publisher of the music including Hopwood & Crew's, London (estab 1860); Addison, Hollier & Lucas, Regent Street; Hutchings & Romer, Conduit Street, and Sheard's, of Holborn, London Includes songs popularised by Annie Adams, English music hall star of the 1860s; the 'Christy Minstrels'; Harry Rickards; George Leybourne; Alfred Glenville Vance; and Harry Clifton. nd [1860 x 1900]
2185/LEB/2/118 The Original Christy's U-Pi-Dee Collection of Song & Melodies Broadsheet containing lyrics to over 100 songs published by JT Wood, 278 & 279 the Strand, London. Accompanying music sheets available from Hopwood & Crew, 42 New Bond Street, London. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. [The 'Christy Minstrels' were a popular 19th cent 'blackface' singing troupe established in New York in the 1840s by Edwin Pearce Christy (1815-1862), Vaudeville manager and performer. When Christy retired as in 1855, the name of the original group was licensed for use by a new organization and became synonymous with the performance tradition of 'blackface' minstrelsy]. nd [1860 x 1900]
2185/LEB/2/119 Illustrated broadside of 'I'd Choose to Be A Daisy' and 'My Bonny Lad is Young And Growing', printed at the 'Catnach' Press by WS Fortey, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Bloomsbury. nd [1858 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/120 Illustrated broadside of 'Just As The Tide Was Flowing and 'Farmer's Boy', printed at the 'Catnach' Press by WS Fortey, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials [For variant of Farmer's Boy see -/136 below]. nd [1858 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/121 Illustrated broadside of 'Can I E'er Forget the Valley', 'The Land of the West' and 'Farewell to the Village', printed at the 'Catnach' Press by WS Fortey, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials nd [1858 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/122 Illustrated broadside of 'Erin's Lovely Home' and 'Don't be too Particular', printed by [Ryle] & Co, 2& 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials. nd [1845 x 1859]
2185/LEB/2/123 Broadside of 'There's None Like A Mother If Ever So Poor' and 'Stone Wall Jackson', [printer unknown]. [The latter ballad describes the death of American Civil War leader, Lieut. General T.J. 'Stonewall' Jackson on 11 May 1863]. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [post 1863]
2185/LEB/2/124 Broadside of 'There's None Like A Mother If Ever So Poor' and 'Stone Wall Jackson', [printer unknown]. [The latter ballad describes the death of American Civil War leader, Lieut. General T.J. 'Stonewall' Jackson on 11 May 1863]. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [post 1863]
2185/LEB/2/125 Illustrated broadside of 'Dear Young Sue or You Should See Her Hair', [printer unknown]. Upper half only – lower half torn away and lost. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/126 Illustrated broadside of 'John Brown' and 'Hot Codlings' printed by Ryle & Co, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. nd [1858 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/127 Broadside of a temperance ballad, 'Close the Ale House Door' printed by H Such, 177 Union Street, Borough, Southwark Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/128 Illustrated broadside of 'Who's Your Butcher or What's the Price of Meat' printed by H Such, 177 Union Street, Borough, Southwark An almost identical version, also printed by Such, is available in the Bodleian Library. nd [1849 x 1862]
2185/LEB/2/129 Illustrated broadside of 'Where There's A Will There's A Way' and 'The Widow's Last Prayer', printed by WS Fortey, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. According to the Bodleian Library catalogue, 'Where There's A Will There's A Way' was written by Harry Clifton (1824-1872). The Bodleian also holds other versions of 'The Widow's Last Prayer'. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/130 Illustrated broadside of 'The Four Leaved Shamrock' and 'Young Edward, the Gallant Hussar', printed at the Catnach Press by WS Fortey, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/131 Illustrated broadside of 'The Marble Arch' and 'I Wish Mamma Was Here', printed at the Catnach Press by WS Fortey, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/132 Broadside of 'The Sewing Machine', [printer unknown]. Lyrics allude to singer's sweetheart operating a 'Thomas's no.2' machine at a workshop in Oxford Street, London. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/133 Illustrated broadside of 'The Walking Tub of Butter' and 'Don't Say One Thing and mean another', printed by Taylor's Song Mart, 93 Brick Lane, Bethnal Green, London. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/134 Illustrated broadside of 'Limerick Races' and 'The Isle of France' printed at the Catnach Press by WS Fortey, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials. Illustrated with a woodcut of St Paul's Cathedral, with a wharf and the River Thames in the foreground. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection ['The Isle of France' is a ballad concerning an Irish convict transported to the Isle of France for seven years. Part of the last stanza has been torn away]. See also -/2/138. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/135 Broadside of 'Lord Bateman' printed by J Catnach, 2 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. [These are not the words published by Rev John Broadwood in Old English Songs (1843), nor by Lucy Broadwood in English County Songs (London, 1893). According to Lucy's manuscript annotations in her own copy of English County Songs, there is another Catnach broadsheet of this song in the British Library]. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [1813 x 1838]
2185/LEB/2/136 Broadside of 'Farmer's Boy' and 'I Stood on the Shore' printed by H Disley, 57 High Street, St Giles, London. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. [For another copy of the 'Farmer's Boy' see Fortey sheet (ref-/120 above)]. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/137 Illustrated broadside of 'Bushes and Briers' [sic] and 'Fair Phoebe and her Dark Eyed Sailor' printed at the Catnach Press by WS Fortey, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials [The first folksong collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams was 'Bushes and Briars' from a Mr Pottiphar of Ingrave, Essex, in 1903. He noted down the tune and later supplemented the words using a broadside (Folk songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, ed. Roy Palmer (London, 1983))]. nd [1858 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/138 Half of an illustrated broadside of 'Limerick Races' and 'The Isle of France' printed at the Catnach Press by WS Fortey, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials. Illustrated with a woodcut of St Paul's Cathedral, with a wharf and the River Thames in the foreground. [Upper half only - the bottom half has been torn away. For an entire copy of this broadside, see -/135 above] Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/139 Illustrated broadside pamphlet, The New Songster, containing the lyrics to 30 songs, printed by WS Fortey, steam printer, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. Illustrated with an engraving of St George slaying a dragon. Other publishers named include Hopwood & Crew's, London (estab 1860); Sheard's, High Holborn, London. Includes 'The Man on the Flying Trapeze', written and sung by George Leybourne (1868). Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [post 1868]
2185/LEB/2/140 Illustrated broadside pamphlet, The People's Songster, containing the lyrics to 33 songs, printed by W Fortey, Monmouth Court, London. Other publishers named include W Young, 14 Leicester Place, Leicester Square; and Sheard's, High Holborn, London. Named singers include Harry Liston and George Leybourne. Includes lyrics for 'Champagne Charlie'. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/141 Illustrated broadside pamphlet, Paddle Your Own Canoe, containing the lyrics to 33 songs, printed by W Fortey, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. Other publishers named include Williams, Paternoster Row; and Brewer's, Bishopsgate Street, London. Named singers include Harry Clifton and AG Hassan. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/142 Illustrated broadside pamphlet, The Victory Songster, containing the lyrics to 23 songs, printed by W Fortey, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. Other publishers named include Francis Bros & Day, Oxford Street, London. Named singers include Fred Bird, Ethel Victor, Bessie Bonehill and W Jasper. Includes list of wholesalers who sell Fortey's publications. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/143 Broadside pamphlet, Favorite [sic] Songster, containing the lyrics to 10 songs [printer unknown]. Subject matter includes poverty, emigration, naval life and sentimental songs about 'Old Ireland'. Not found in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/144 Illustrated broadside of 'My Bonny Blooming Highland Jane' and 'The Mermaid' printed by WS Fortey, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. nd [1858 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/145 Illustrated broadside of 'A Father's Blessing' printed by [blank (Ryle?)] & Co, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/146 Illustrated broadside of 'How's Your Poor Feet?' (first line: 'We have rare funny sayings come up every day') and 'Billy Pattison' printed by T Goode, Lion Steam Printing Office, Clerkenwell Green, London. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/147 Illustrated broadside of 'The Grand Conversation on Napoleon' and 'The Brave Old Oak' printed at the 'Catnach Press' by WS Fortey, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London ['The Grand Conversation on Napoleon' concerns Napoleon's death on St Helena in 1821] Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [post 1821]
2185/LEB/2/148 Illustrated broadside of 'The Fatal Ramilies' and 'Auld Langsyne' [sic] printed by H Such, 177 Union Street, Borough, Southwark ['The Fatal Ramilies' concerns the wreck of the eponymous ship]. nd [1863 x 1875]
2185/LEB/2/149 Illustrated broadside of 'Shouldn't I like to get Fat?' and 'Hurrah for Bold Robin Hood' printed at the 'Catnach Press' by WS Fortey, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. nd [1858 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/150 Illustrated broadside of 'Forty Years Ago' and 'Hop Light Loo' printed at the 'Catnach Press' by WS Fortey, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/151 Illustrated broadside of 'The Lord Will Provide' and 'The Disciples at Sea' printed by J Catnach, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/152 Illustrated broadside of 'Donnelly & Cooper' and 'The Croppy Boy' [printer unknown]. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection ['Donnelly & Cooper' concerns the contest held in 1815 on the Curragh, Co Kildare, in which the Irish boxer, Daniel Donnelly (1788-1820), beat the English champion, George Cooper. The term 'croppy' originates in a nickname given to the rebels of Wexford during the 1798 rebellion because of their close-cropped hair, and was long synonymous with 'rebel']. nd [post 1815]
2185/LEB/2/153 Broadside ballad and explanatory passage concerning the 'Dreadful Explosion of Gunpowder' at Messrs Hall & Son, Gunpowder Stores, Belvedere, Kent, on 1 Oct 1864. Printed at the 'Catnach Press' by WS Fortey, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. No copies in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [post 1864]
2185/LEB/2/154 Illustrated broadside of 'Answer to Gentle Annie' by LM Thornton, to the tune of 'Gentle Annie', and 'When I am Far Away', by Lee, esq, sung by L Davis. [Printer unknown]. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/155 Illustrated broadside of 'Didn't she seem to like it?' printed at the 'Catnach Press' by WS Fortey, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London [part torn away]. nd [1858 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/156 Illustrated broadside of 'Sugar Shop' and 'My Dear Mother's Grave', the latter to the tune of 'Gentle Annie', printed by J Catnach, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/157 Illustrated broadside of 'Biddy the Basket Woman' and 'The Slave' printed by Beard, printers, of Tamworth, ['Biddy the Basket Woman' concerns an Irish flower seller who was at Waterloo]. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [post 1815]
2185/LEB/2/158 Illustrated broadside of 'My Bonny Blooming Highland Jane' and 'Single Young Man Lodger', [printer unknown]. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/159 Broadside of 'Oh! If I had a Wife That Would Love Me' and 'Going Down Holborn Hill' printed by WS Fortey, Monmouth Court, London. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/160 Broadside of 'Peggy Band', 'The Angels' Whisper' and 'My Gentle Mother Dear' printed at the 'Catnach' Press by WS Fortey, Monmouth Court, London. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/161 Illustrated broadside of 'Polly Bluck; or Married on Wednesday' and 'the Soldier's Daughter', [printer unknown]. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/162 Illustrated broadside of 'Tom Moody' and 'The Gallant Poacher' [sometimes known as 'The Poacher's Fate'] printed by [blank (Ryle?)] & Co, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/163 Illustrated broadside of 'Biscay O!' (alias 'The Bay of Biscay O', first line 'Loud roar'd the dreadful thunder') and 'The Husband's Dream' printed by William Pratt, 82 Digbeth, Birmingham. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/164 Illustrated broadside of 'Do a Good Turn When You Can' and 'I'm off to Paddy's Land – parody on I'm off to Charlestown' printed at the 'Catnach' press by W Fortey, Monmouth Court, London [Upper half only – lower half torn away and lost]. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/165 Broadside of 'On Board of the Kangaroo' and 'Red Sage Sal', [printer unknown]. [Upper half only – lower half torn away and lost.] [According to Stan Hugill, (Shanties from the Seven Seas (New York, 1987)) 'On Board of the Kangaroo' (alias 'The Good Ship Kangaroo') was a popular broadside shanty during the mid to late 1800s. However, notes from the Greig-Duncan Folksong Collection, vol. 6, suggest that the song was composed by Harry Clifton (1824-1872), a music-hall performer, and published in 1856]. nd [1858 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/166 Broadside of 'I'd Choose to be a Baby' and 'The Charming Young Widow I met in The Train', to the tune of 'Jenny Jones', [printer unknown] [Upper half only – lower half torn away and lost] nd [1858 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/167 Illustrated broadside of 'Merchant's Daughter and Constant Farmer's Son' and 'Lovely Night', [printer unknown]. [Some versions of the title substitute 'or' for 'and'. The first line of this version is 'It's of a merchant's daughter in London Town did dwell...' Some versions substitute Limerick for London. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection]. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/168 Illustrated broadside of 'Isabella with her Gingham Umbrella' printed at the 'Catnach' Press by WS Fortey, Monmouth Court, London. nd [1858 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/169 Illustrated broadside of 'Execution of Mrs Pearcey for the Hampstead Murders' includes a picture of the scene on the scaffold, ballads about the murders and execution, news article and letter from the accused. Printed by HP Such, 183 Union Street, Borough, Southwark. [According to Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (London, 1895), 24 year old Mary Eleanor Pearcey (alias Piercey, née Wheeler), was hanged at Newgate on 23 Dec 1890 for the murders of Phoebe Hogg and her eighteen month-old daughter in order to regain the affections of Frank Hogg]. No copies in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [post 1890]
2185/LEB/2/170 Broadside songsheet containing the lyrics to 11 songs including 'I'll Take You Home again Kathleen', 'Nelson' and 'Caprice', printed by WS Fortey, Steam Printer and Publisher, Great St Andrew Street, Seven Dials, London. Named publishers include Charles Sheard & Co, 192 High Holborn; R Maynard, 346 Hackney Road; and W Paxton, 19 Oxford Street. No copies in Bodleian Broadside Collection. Named singers include Harry Anderson, Charles Godfrey, Leo Dryden, Miss Billie Barlow, JP Dane, Nellie Featherstone & Arthur Albert and R Donnelly. Named songwriters include EB Marks and G Rosey; Tom Mcguire; JP Dane; R Donnelly; Charles Willmott and George Le Brunn. 'Flannel Chest Brigade' to be sung to the air 'Donnelly and Cooper'. ['I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen' was written by Thomas Westendorf, (1848-1923), and published in 1875. Although attributed to JP Dane in this songsheet, 'The Stone Outside Dan Murphy's Door' was written by John Francis Patterson, (1840-1889), an Irish songwriter, musician and circus entertainer, after he travelled to America in 1876]. nd [?post 1882]
2185/LEB/2/171 Illustrated broadside containing the words to 36 songs including 'Have you seen her Lately?', 'Dustman's Wife' and 'The Bells of Shandon' , [printer unknown]. Named publishers include Brewer's, Bishopsgate Street; and Williams, Paternoster Row, London. No copies in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/172 Illustrated broadside, The Little Green Leaf in the Bible Songster containing the words to 10 songs including 'Little Green Leaf in the Bible', 'Why Can't England & Ireland Agree?' and 'The Cry of Old England', [printer unknown]. No copies in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/173 Illustrated broadside of 'Drinking Song' and 'Alice, Ben Bolt', printed by H Such, 177 Union Street, Borough, Southwark. nd [1863 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/174 Illustrated broadside of 'Darling Dinah Kitty Anna Maria, The Pride of Clerkenwell', [printer unknown]. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/175 Broadside of 'The Birth of a Prince of Wales' to the tune of 'King of the Cannibal Islands', printed by Birt, 69 Great St Andrew, Seven Dials, London. Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection [Queen Victoria's eldest son, Edward Albert, was born on 9 Nov 1841 and invested as Prince of Wales 4 weeks later. The song celebrates the Prince's presentation to the City of London on Lord Mayor's day]. nd [1841 x 1842]
2185/LEB/2/176 Illustrated broadside of 'The Babes in the Wood', printed by T Goode, Lion Steam Printing Office, Clerkenwell Green, London. First line: 'It's a woeful bad tale I'm about to relate…'; refrain 'For their nunky he vos a deceitful old man' [sic]. There are other versions of this song in the Bodleian broadside collection but none of this one. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/177 First page of the illustrated broadside, The Music Hall Songster, advertised as containing the lyrics to 17 songs, printed by WS Fortey, Monmouth Court, London. The two songs on the reverse of the sheet are 'The Tricks of the Trade' and 'There's another Jolly Row Downstairs', both published by Francis Bros & Day, 351 Oxford Street, London, sung by Herbert Cambell and W Bint respectively. No copies in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/178 Illustrated broadside of 'The Dark Girl dressed in Blue', printed at the 'Catnach' Press by WS Fortey, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. The song concerns a man who has come from Leicestershire to London to see the Great Exhibition and who is duped by a dark girl dressed in blue. [The Bodleian collection contains other versions of this song in which the narrator comes from Dublin or goes to Glasgow. All reflect the common theme of country innocence running up against urban sharp practice. One particular version, printed in Cork, pairs the song with a parody, 'The Fair Girl Dress'd in Green']. nd [post 1851]
2185/LEB/2/179 Illustrated broadside of 'the Marble Arch' and 'As Welcome as The Flowers in May', printed by HP Such, 177 Union Street, Borough, Southwark. nd [1863 x 1885]
2185/LEB/2/180 Broadside of 'John Bull and The Taxes', printed by WS Fortey, Monmouth Court, Bloomsbury, London. [A satirical song criticizing the increasing number of new taxes 'for to raise some money / for the wedding of the Queen' [1840]] Other versions available in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [post 1840]
2185/LEB/2/181 Illustrated broadside of 'Old Woman of Rumford' and 'the Rose in June', printed by J Catnach, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London. nd [1813 x 1838]
2185/LEB/2/182 Illustrated broadside of 'To Struggle With Death and Sink At Last to a Watery Grave' sung to the air of 'Just Before The Battle', printed by H Such, 177 Union Street, Borough, Southwark. [The ballad concerns the loss of 293 passengers and hands, of the English passenger ship, the Northfleet, run down by a Spanish ship, the Murillo, in Jan 1873, while at anchor near Dungeness, Kent. In a fit of artistic licence, the ballad gives the number of fatalities as 400]. No copies in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [post 1873]
2185/LEB/2/183 Four illustrated broadside pamphlets, 228 songs: The John Bull Songster printed by [blank (Ryle?)] & Co, Monmouth Court, Bloomsbury, London, which includes songs by Dibdin, others published by D'Almaine & Co, Soho Square, and 'Minnie', 'sung by Mme Anna Thillon at Drury Lane Theatre with immense applause'; Catherine Hayes's Melodist, [printer unknown], which includes 'A Tale of a Crinoline' by James Onions; The Universal Songster, [printer unknown], which includes 'Nellie Bly', 'The Old Folks at Home', and songs 'from the opera, the Rose of Castille'; On the Sands, On the Sands and Doing the Grand! Songster, printed by Marks & Sons, 72 Houndsditch, London, which includes songs published by Chappell & Co, J Williams, Davidson of Peter's Hill, and in the Musical Boquet ['Dixey's Land' and 'My Johnny Was a Shoemaker']. No copies in Bodleian Broadside Collection. nd [mid 19th cent-late 19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/184 The Pictorial Map of Palestine with colour illustrations of events described in the Old and New Testaments, engraved by Edmund Evans and printed by James Nisbet & Co, 21 Berners Street, London. nd [19th cent]
2185/LEB/2/ Parcel labelled 'Unbound Pamphlets: Folklore, History etc. LE Broadwood's (presentation etc)'. c.1890-1919
2185/LEB/2/185 'Ballad History of the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII' by Professor CH Firth, offprint from The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 3rd series, vol II, 1908. Presented to Lucy Broadwood by the author in Dec 1908. 1908
2185/LEB/2/186 'Gypsy Lore' by RA Scott Macfie, offprint from The University Review, Nov 1908, presented to Lucy Broadwood by the author. Nov 1908
2185/LEB/2/187 A Brief Account of Gypsy History, Persecutions, Character and Customs, with Examples of Genuine Gypsy Melodies, compiled by Bob Skot (Liverpool, 1909). Initialled and presented to Lucy Broadwood by RA Scott Macfie. 1909
2185/LEB/2/188 Gypsy Coppersmiths by Andreas (Mui Shuko) (Liverpool, 1913). Lucy has asterisked the author's name and written 'RA Scott Macfie'. 1913
2185/LEB/2/189 'The Hobby Horse' by Thurston Peter, offprint from the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1913. Presented to Lucy Broadwood by the author in Sep 1916. 1916
2185/LEB/2/190 'Apollo and St Michael: Some Analogies' by GF Hill, offprint from the Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol XXXVI, 1916. Presented by the author. 1916
2185/LEB/2/191 'Boccaccio, Hans Sachs, and the Bramble Briar' by HM Belden, offprint from the Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, XXXIII 3, 1918. Presented to Lucy Broadwood by the author, Dec 1918. Also a related letter from HM Belden at 811 Virginia Avenue, Columbia Missouri, 8 Feb 1919. 1918-1919
2185/LEB/2/192 'The Sources of Jonson's Masque of Christmas and Love's Welcome at Welbeck', by CR Baskervill, University of Chicago, reprinted from Modern Philology vol.VI, no.2, Oct 1908. Presented to Lucy Broadwood by the author, 1919. 1908-1919
2185/LEB/2/193 Offprint of an article by Frank Sidgwick from the Journal of the Folk Lore Society concerning the carol, 'The Bitter Withy' or 'Holy Well'. Presented to Lucy Broadwood by the author. nd [c.1909]
2185/LEB/2/194 'The Mayers and their song, or some account of the First of May and its observance in Hertfordshire' by William Blyth Gerish (Hertford, nd). Presented to Lucy Broadwood by the author. [Publication date is 1906, according to British Library catalogue]. nd [1906]
2185/LEB/2/195 'The Rushbearing' by Miss EG Fletcher (Leeds, nd). Presented by the authoress, with manuscript annotations by Lucy Broadwood. Describes Rushbearing festival, 1890. nd [c.1890-1910?]
2185/LEB/2/196 Manuscript list of ballads published by W S Fortey, annotated. Ballad sheets owned by Frank Kidson have been indicated [Possibly Kidson's handwriting]. nd [late 19th cent-early 20th cent]
2185/LEB/2/197 'The Shakespeare Myth' by Sir Edwin Durning Lawrence, bart, 1912; with loose manuscript annotations by Lucy Broadwood. 1912