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Thread #106000 Message #2185544
Posted By: The Sandman
03-Nov-07 - 06:52 AM
Thread Name: Mary Neal letters and archives
Subject: RE: Mary Neal letters and archives
Treewind ,very clever,but I am not convinced.
the likelihood of exposure to greater numbers of non folk enthusiasts,is more in a busy museum,than in a relatively quiet[apart from folkies]C~# House,where you have a ten minute walk from the tube station,and not very good parking facilities.
If Cecil Sharp House was moved,to a place with good parking and good public transport connections,there might be a stronger argument.,but it is still against her wishes.
another alternative might be that CecilSharp house, were allowed to have computerised copies,so that the folk fraternity could view it there.
Mary Neals work was about the social emancipation of women through folk dance,not just the promotion of folkdance,these were notCecil Sharps aims.
Mary Neal expressly forbade ,that her letters ETC,should go there,who are we to say that had she died yesterday,she would have expressed her wishes differently,should not her original wishes be respected.
finally Cecil Sharp house is not the only folk museum in the country .Dick Miles.