Jim,

Re Folkways availability I am referring to the days before you entered the folk music world if we can believe your own telling that you first encountered it in 1966.
Did I say that Folkways were NOT available? No. I explained that they were and the situation at the time.

It was a copyright of an "arrangement" that you referred to I have a publication dated 1957 (again pre-dating your interest by nine years) which includes the song "Rothesay-O", "Traditional", "Words and Music arranged by Ewan MacColl". Ditto for the song "Calton Weaver" which doesn't include the description "Traditional".