Steve,

Hugill's "many well-known collectors of sea-songs and shanties, with whom I exchanged notes on the subject" were not necessarily still collecting in the 50s and 60s.

He could well have met people like Percy Grainger at CSH in that period: although his shanty collecting was now many years in the past, Grainger certainly qualifies as "well-known"

What happened to Hugill's notes and correspondence?