This is huge and great deal of thanks is due to Dr Julia Bishop at Sheffield University and to the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library itself. If you search on the VWML Digital Archive for Carpenter as Collector, you get over 7,600 entries. Sharp himself only has a thousand more, so that gives you an idea of the amount of material that Carpenter collected and also shows how remiss the English collectors were between the wars. I am going to use this as an opportunity to plug the work done on the songs collected by Carpenter in Gloucestershire, which can be found transcribed with full song and performer notes on www.glostrad.com. Tradsinger
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