re: the Edinburgh University Folksong Society I mention above; I just got a note from President Taylor that I should expect a contact from one Neil Palmer of the School of Scottish Studies. Seems the man came across Edgar's considerable memorabilia of the Society and he's doing a PhD on it. Feels that this makes one of the finest documentations anywhere of the Revival.

Those was certainly exciting times, folk-wise - in many ways better than even Greenwich Village or Cambridge (Mass) where I'd also lived.

President Taylor goes on: "Cute to think that the stuff that we did for fun in our youth is now the subject of academic study." It is. But I guess all events eventually coming under study were lived by actual people whose purposes had nothing to do with recording the events for history.