Joe,
You're really making me envious now. I'd love to visit the NLS but time, distance and funds don't allow. I have to make do with what they've put online. I get to the BL on occasions as my sons live in London.

On another note do you have copies of any Transactions of The Dumfries & Galloway Natural Hist & Antiquarian Socy booklets? Or know of where I can obtain copies cheaply? They are online on JStor but not being an academic I don't have access. They contain some interesting articles on balladry and collections by Frank Miller who was one of the collectors who helped Child.

My most interesting visit to Edinburgh was about 5 years ago when in a bookshop I found Chappell's OWN copy of Popular Music, just vol 1, but inside were a load of manuscripts in his writing and correspondence between him and Ebsworth, a mss copy of William and Margaret, and a load of newspaper obits of Chappell. I think they had all belonged to his daughter then Edin Uni. How they found their way into the bookshop I don't know but going by the cheap price I paid the bookseller had no idea what they were.