HAM/05/37/11	Letter from H.E.D Hammond to Lucy Broadwood (17 Oct 1905) accompanying songs collected from Joseph Elliott	HAM-05-380.gif HAM-05-381.gif HAM-05-382.gif
In a different hand:
Letter belongs to envelope: Dorset 111
The Vicarage
S. Clevedon
Somerset
Oct 17. 1905
Dear Miss Broadwood,
I am sending you tomorrow 20 songs collected by my brother and myself from Joseph Elliot of Todber, near Marnhull, Dorset. They nearly all ahve to do with the sea, Elliot having been a fisherman off Newfoundland.
He went out with about 60 of the men chiefly from Dorset, I gather, starting from Dartmouth
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about 55 years ago. He is now some 70 odd years old.
He knows nothing of the original source of most of his songs having learnt them all or nearly all while fishing.
We could however trace some of them and you, no doubt, will recognise more.
I got 4 more carols - from Barratt of Puddltown whose songs you shall have shortly - they are, I think, of the same style as Scotus
I am yours very truly
HED Hammond

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P.S. My brother has just found something wh. seems to throw light on one of our Dorset Songs, so I enclose it.
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Note upon the 'Rambling Comber' no 109 of Dorset Collection.
With the last verse beginning "A tailor's bill I never fill;
I never do take measure" &c
Compare a lay called 'The Mode of France' (p193 of Percy M.S.) verse 3
"If your tailor chance to strike you"
"With his bill, and stay no leisure,"
"Lead him in a dance that likes you,"
"And instead of coyne take measure."