[Caledonia] Song to tune "Caledonian Hunt's Delight", Watson Collection p.12
MS Details
ID: 28
Repository: National Library of Scotland
Call No: MS 586
MS Title: [Caledonia] Song to tune "Caledonian Hunt's Delight", Watson Collection p.12
MS Date: 23 January [1789]
MS Year: [1789]
Type: Verse
Paper Details
Paper: Laid
Dimensions (mm): 308W 333H
Chain Lines: 8
Chain Width: 1"
Chain Direction: Vertical
Watermark: Britannia
Countermark: Band
Paper Maker: Edward and John Band
Mill Location: Somerset
Country of Origin: England
Notes
Description:
Song for James Johnson, ink on paper. Folio foolscap sheet with verses ff.1-3 and address to James Johnson Edinr on last, after folding to make envelope. Various repairs to bottom right of f.1, and two repairs to ff.2-3.
Previously recorded information:
Verses for the Tune "Caledonian Hunt's Delight" 23 January (1789)
Notes:
See Kinsley Poems I: "Caledonia. Text from the Watson MS (1124; Letter to Johnson, 23 January 1789), collated with the Alloway MS (Al) and Currie (iv. 352–4). Title from Currie; tune only in MSS. In Al ll. 41–48 are written on f. 2v, though there is ample space on f. 2r; they are probably a later addition
253. Sent to Johnson for SMM on 23 January 1789 (Letter 303)."
Churchill 1935, p.48 lists Band & Son 1783 in list of British paper-makers and mills.
Reference: K253; Churchill 1935, p.48; Shorter 1971, 60
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