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Includes two original ballad manuscripts compiled by Peter Buchan: Secret songs of silence and The ancient unpublished national ballads of Scotland ... , as well as a transcript of his ballad manuscript in the British Museum: Ancient minstrelsy of the north of Scotland in its original purity ... Also includes: correspondence between Buchan and the poet and ballad editor, William Motherwell (1797-1835), concerning publication of Buchan's writings; a letter from folklorist William Walker (1840-1931) conveying Buchan's manuscript Secret songs ... to Harvard College librarian Justin Winsor; a typescript essay about Buchan by James Cameron; a manuscript poem on Buchan; and some annotations by Francis James Child.