Alexander Laing of Brechin’s MS., 1829-35. ‘Ancient Ballads and Songs, etc., etc., from the recitation of old people; never published, 1829.’ Three ballads and a fragment. Harvard College Library.
Robert White’s Papers, 1829 and after. Ballads selected from his collectanea by Mr White of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Harvard College Library.
British Museum, Additional MSS, 20094. 1829. (No. 4.)
Campbell MSS, 1830 or earlier. ‘Old Scottish Songs collected in the counties of Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles.’ 2 volumes. Collector unknown. At Marchmont House, Berwickshire.
‘Scottish Songs and Ballads,’ copied probably before 1830, by a granddaughter of Lord Woodhouselee, mostly from print or from A. F. Tytler’s Brown MS., but containing two or three versions of popular ballads not found elsewhere.
Harris MS. Ballads learned by Amelia Harris in her childhood from an old nurse in Perthshire (the last years of the 18th century); taken down by her daughter, who has added a few of her own collecting. With an appendix of airs. Harvard College Library.
Joseph Robertson. An interleaved and annotated copy of The New Deeside Guide [1832] (of which J. R. was the author).
Gibb MS., 1860. Twenty-one ballads written down from the recitation of his mother by Mr James Gibb of Joppa, representing the form in which ballads were recited about the beginning of the century in Angus and Mearns. Harvard College Library.
David Louden’s MS., 1873. Contains four popular ballads derived from reciters in Haddingtonshire. Harvard College Library.
Murison MS., about 1873. Some forty pieces collected by Mrs A. F. Murison in Old Deer, among which there are several traditional popular ballads. Harvard College Library.