Hi Santa,

I did say that Verrier's paper is 'highly speculative' - and you may be right, it might be too large a claim. But then MacColl was a very remarkable person and, I'm convinced, one of the truly great creative talents of the Twentieth Century. I think that behind everything that MacColl did there was a huge amount of thought, research and analysis and we will probably never get to know about even a fraction of it.

More important, though, to my mind, is this tendency to write MacColl out of the history of the post-war Folk Revival. This is absurd! It's like trying to write Einstein out of the history of modern physics and it does absolutely no service to our movement!