Fair copy by Robert Anderson of his Cumberland ballads, dedicated to P.H. Howard of Corby Castle, 1823. The second volume includes a glossary of the Cumbrian dialect; tunes by Anderson for Cumberland ballads; and songs by Susanna Blamire (dedicated to P.H. Howard) copied out by Anderson.
Fair copy by Robert Anderson of hisCumberland ballads
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. poet. e. 172-3
- Dates of Creation
- 1823
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 2 shelfmarks. Bound by C. Thurnham, Carlisle, in half calf, marbled boards
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Robert Anderson (1770-1833) was a Cumbrian poet. See the Dictionary of National Biography for further information.
Access Information
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).
Acquisition Information
Bought, H.T. Jantzen, cat. 71 (1967), 27.
Note
Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 46505-6.
Bibliography
See Anderson's Cumberland ballads and songs ed. T. Ellwood (Ulverston, 1904).