HAM/05/37/10	Letter from H.E.D Hammond to Lucy Broadwood (23 Dec 1905) re: errors and omissions in songs published in JFSS 7, plus deficiencies in his own way of annotating songs sent previously	HAM-05-371.gif HAM-05-372.gif HAM-05-373.gif HAM-05-374.gif HAM-05-375.gif HAM-05-376.gif HAM-05-377.gif HAM-05-378.gif HAM-05-379.gif HAM-05-383.gif
Dec 23. 1905
The Vicarage,
East Clevedon,
Somerset.
My dear Miss Broadwood,
I have received no. vii of the Folk Song Society Journal which is very excellent, and especially interesting to me, as there are in the two collections, which I have been able to send you, variants of several of the ???? printed.
I fear, however, that I must be to blame for one or two misprints which in the no, through not having given sufficient information about some of the songs I communicated.
Thus on p.p. 95, 96, at the head of a section of 'The Tries' is printed "Tune noted by H.A.Geboult &c"
"Sung by Mrs Ash at Somerset;" and at the head of another version "Tune" is as before "Sung by Mrs* Gullion at Somerset." I am very sorry for this as it is clear to me from the Society's latest hints to collectors

* for Gulliver.
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that I ought to have written far more precise information on each tune-slip than I imagined to be necessary.
I am afraid I had contented myself with sending you merely a collection of tunes and words, and various letters containing names and other particulars concerning the singers. I had also, I remember, distinguished the tunes noted by Mr Jeboult from those which I had noted myself. If in the future I find any tunes, the which I think worthy of being com-
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mitted to you I shall of course head them all in accordance with your latest hints, and you will possibly approve of my adding the contributor's name in cases where the contributor is not the same person as the notes of the tune, otherwise there is a danger, for instance in the case of the two songs I have referred to, of people communicating with Mr Jeboult of Taunton concerning songs which he took down for my brother, Dr Gardiner and myself.
Unfortunately my shortcomings in the matter of the Somerset collection extend further to the more important collection from Dorset. Here as before I have sent you a large number of songs on separate sheets of paper under certain covering letters giving general information concerning the songs singers and collectors.
But I am afraid that the slips by themselves in many cases convey very little information, and that often you would not even be able to tell whence they came. Now I should 
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should like to do anything I can to remedy this state of things as far as possible, and I am perfectly willing, and shall indeed be very glad to write in all necessary details upon all the tune-slips, or sets of words I have sent you, if you will send them back to me, the more so as I have understood from you that some of the songs are destined to be eventually published, and I should like to help to render all pranks of the printer's 
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devil impossible. Of course you will know better than I whether there is s more satisfactory way out of the difficulty.
With regard to the Somerset collection and our correspondence about it, I have decided to get Mr Jeboult to send me a copy of all tunes in his possession. I think I have almost all that he has not. As to the words, I might have to ask you for copies of two or three sets; one of which I know I have not is that very
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pretty game-song of Mrs Gulliver's 'Oh! Madam I will give to you a new silk gown" with chorus "Oh! man John" &c of which I notice two similar versions, noted by Mr Sharp, in no vii.
While writing on the subject of no vii may I make a last remark. I notice in song no 4 a tune with the words of less than one verse attached.
I sent you, in June last, I think, a song which I took down from a Mrs Poole an inmate of an almshouse in
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Taunton. It began thus: 
"Oh! once did I court a fair beauty bright,
And (oh!?)all it was to gain her own heart's delight.
She grant to use her love, and her love I did obtain.
My love she had no alarm at all to complain"
Surely this is connected eith the fragment recovered by Mr Grainger. Poole gave me five other verses which ended by confining the [undeciphered] /New
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Bedlam. Even Poole's tune was not altogether dissimilar from that which Mr Grainger noted. It was numbered LXIX in the somerset collection.
With regard to the remark, of Dr Vaughan Williams upon the connections between the words of 'Maria Martin' and 'Come all you worthy Xtians', it may interest you to know, in
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Case you have not yet had time to discern it, that I took down in Dorset practically identical tunes, (closely resembling Mr Sharp's Mixolydian tunes to 'Come all ye worth Christian friends' in no vii) to a  murder ballad similar to Maria Martin, and to 'Come all ye worthy people that dwell within this land) &c.
The tunes are numbered respectively No 72 'Prentice Boy' and No 1 of the Carols in the Dorset collection.
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With all best wishes for Christmas, I am
Yours very truly
HED Hammond