HAM/05/37/17	Letter from H.E.D Hammond to Lucy Broadwood (n.d) accompanying another batch of songs (Nos. 298-323)	HAM-05-393.gif
c/o Stuckey Banking Co.
Clevedon
Somerset
Nov. 9 1906
Dear Miss Broadwood,
	Here is another small budget containing
298	*The Blue Cockade (usual tune
299	*The Oxen Ploughing (wch Baring Gould had, such a kind prs.)
300	*Barbara Ellen (the Dorset tune)
301	My father is a knight (which I sent you from [not deciphered])
302 Modal	*Lady and the Grenadier
303 Modal	Outlandish Knight
304 partly Modal	*Milkmaid
    Modal	*Sprig of Thyme	a glorious tune
    Modal	a)Nancy of Yarmouth	a very fair tune
307	'Rap-a-tap-tap'	Loose words
308	Creeping Jane
309 Modal	*'I am a coachman all on the high road'
	(Loose words  Derry down Chorus)
310	'A dreadful storm is rising'.
311	*Polly Oliver	(good tune)
314 Modal	*b)Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth	(not so good as a)
315 Modal	*'Its of a sailor bold	(capital tune)
317	*The Alehouse	(6/8 tune)
316	*'The Lady of Riches'	(nice words, tune pretty)
318	'Sprig of Thyme'
319	*'Old Witchet (The merry cuckold) tune better.
320	*'John Barleycorn'
321 Modal	*Cruel Father, affectionate Daughter'
322 Modal	*The old Boatman of Dover'
323 Modal	*'One night as I lay on my bed' (Good words and tune)

I have all my tunes copied now up to 412, and will send them as soon as possible
Yours very truly,
HED Hammond