(3) Alexander Fraser Tytler’s Brown MS. Nine ballads sent A. F. T. by Mrs Brown in 1800; with the airs. Anderson, as above, VII, 179 f. Aldourie Castle, Inverness-shire.
Sir Walter Scott’s collection, Abbotsford. 1783-1830.
(1) Small folio without title, Library, L 2 (Catalogue, p. 57). Two fragments.
(2) ‘Scottish Songs,’ 1795. Library, N 3 (Catalogue, p. 104). Seven ballads with airs and three fragments. All the ballads appear to be Mrs Brown’s copies altered.
(3) Letters addressed to Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1831. Ballads enclosed have in most cases been removed, but some seven remain.
(4) ‘Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,’ a folio volume made up at a recent date from detached pieces to the number of above eighty.
(5) ‘North Country Ballads’ in a quarto volume with the title ‘Miscellanea Curiosa,’ Library B 5 (Catalogue, p. 15).
(6) ‘Miscellanies,’ a folio with one ballad and a fragment.
Glenriddell MS., 1791. In vol. XI of Robert Riddell’s collection of Scottish Antiquities. (There is an earlier transcript of one of the ballads in vol. VIII.) Library of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
MS. described by Scott as the ‘collection of an old lady’s complete set of ballads.’ In two portions, the first in 53 pages, on paper of 1805-6-7; the second in 10 pages, on paper of 1818. Contains thirty-two popular ballads and gives the titles of others known to the compiler. Obtained by Skene of Rubislaw in the north of Scotland (but obviously not so early as 1802-3 as endorsed by Scott on the cover of the Skene MS.), turned over to Scott by Skene, and in 1823 by Scott to C. K. Sharpe. In the possession of Mr Macmath.