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Thread #126347 Message #2866936
Posted By: John Minear
18-Mar-10 - 12:57 PM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Here is Captain Leighton Robinson's "Sally Brown" from Sydney Robertson Cowell's collection CALIFORNIA GOLD, from the American Memory website at the Library of Congress. It was recorded November 12, 1939.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?cowellbib:12:./temp/~ammem_QAu9::
And here are her notes (scroll down):
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?cowell:1:./temp/~ammem_Gs7G::
She says that Captain Robinson "went to sea in 1888, sailing out of Cornwall to San Francisco."