Hi,

I'm adding the English versions of Earl Brand. Does anyone know the date of "Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy" or have information about this collection?

I have four Scottish versions of Child A. Not sure of Child's dates, I assume he means the 1857 version is the most complete. It it from the 1818 version?

"Obtained from recitation "many years ago" wrote Mr. White in 1873, by James Telfer, of Laughtree Liddesdale, in some part of the neighboring country: the copy has the date 1818."

Why the 1857 date?

Richie