Inventory of the Alex Helm Collection - Volume 20

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20:1A-5 - The Bampton Mummering
Author:Helm, Alex
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Bampton; Aug. 28, 1962
 
Notes: By Bobby Wells and Ted Hunt
Date: 1962
Content: Text
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:6 - [Letter to Helm from -- on Idbury, Leafield, Ilmington Morris]
Author:--
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Fleet; Sept. 14, 1962
 
Notes: --
Date: 1962
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:7-10 - The Compton Tipteerers' Play
Author:Carey, Clive
Title: Carey Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: --; Christmas 1911
 
Notes: --
Date: 1911
Content: Text
Refs: ERD
20:15A* - Christmas Mummers of the Nineteenth Century [Berkshire, Sussex]
Author:Bacon, John M
Title: "Christmas Mummers of the Nineteenth Century"
Journal: --
Imprint: --
 
Notes: Pages Misnumbered; 4 Pages Given Number "15a"
Date: --
Content: Photos; Texts
Refs: not used
20:15A-15C - [Letter to Helm from Newman on Chawton Mummers]
Author:Newman, Ethel
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Chawton, Hants.; Nov. 23, 1962
 
Notes: --
Date: 1962
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:15-16 - Wassailing - Newdigate, Surrey [Also Warlingham]
Author:Brayley, Edward Wedlake
Title: A Topographical History of Surrey (Rev. and Ed. Edward Walford)
Journal: --
Imprint: London: J. S. Virtue, 1850, pp.72
 
Notes: --
Date: 1850
Content: Song
Refs: not used
20:16-17 - Mummers' Play, Winchcombe, Glos
Author:--
Title: --
Journal: The Winchcombe and Sudeley Record
Imprint: 3:32 (August 1892), 142-43
 
Notes: --
Date: 1892
Content: Text
Refs: --
20:18-19 - [Extracts from Letters to Ewart Russell from Ruffler on Northampton May Garland: Jack in the Green]
Author:Ruffler, F. D
Title: Russell Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: Langdon Hills; 1962
 
Notes: Via Np?
Date: 1962
Content: Illus; Song
Refs: not used
20:20 - [Notes on Chesham "Kattners" or "Tanders"]
Author:Bennell, John
Title: Bennell Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: --
 
Notes: --
Date: --
Content: Text
Refs: ERD
20:21 - [Notes on Mummers' Plays]
Author:Board, M. E
Title: "St. George the Mummer's Christmas Play"
Journal: Word-Lore
Imprint: 1 (1926), 235
 
Notes: From Np?
Date: 1926
Content: Text
Refs: not used
20:21-22V - [Letter to Helm from N. Peacock on V. A.'s Book]
Author:Peacock, Norman
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Milngavie; Jan. 6, 1963
 
Notes: --
Date: 1963
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:22 - [Notes on West End, Middlesex, Dance]
Author:Hunter, G. H
Title: "A Middlesex Dance"
Journal: Word-Lore
Imprint: 2 (1927), 61-62
 
Notes: "Np/Mx 3"
Date: 1927
Content: --
Refs: not used
20:23-24V - Iping Midhurst, Sussex, Play
Author:Sharp, R. J
Title: "The Usssex Mummers' Play"
Journal: Word-Lore
Imprint: 2 (1927), 206-7
 
Notes: "Np/Sx 10"; Plus Np Comment
Date: 1927
Content: Text
Refs: not used
20:24R - [Notes on Various Oxon. and Glos. Morris]
Author:Williams, Alfred
Title: "Folk Songs of the Upper Thames District"
Journal: Word-Lore
Imprint: 1 (1926), 15
 
Notes: "Np/Oxon 13"; Plus Np Comment
Date: 1926
Content: --
Refs: not used
20:25-26V - [Notes on Roxburghshire Play]
Author:Curle, James
Title: "The Guisers"
Journal: The Times Literary Supplement
Imprint: No. 1556, Oct. 26, 1931, pp.960b
 
Notes: "Np/Sc 33-4"
Date: 1931
Content: --
Refs: not used
20:26V - [Notes on Hogmanay Play]
Author:Johnstone, Henry
Title: "The Guisers"
Journal: The Times Literary Supplement
Imprint: No. 1555, Oct. 19, 1931, pp.916d
 
Notes: "Np/Sc 33-4"
Date: 1931
Content: --
Refs: not used
20:26-27 - [Notes on Ritual Dramas]
Author:Smith, Sidney
Title: "The Practice of Kingship in Early Semitic Kingdoms" in S. H. Hooke (Ed.), "Myth, Ritual And Kingship"
Journal: --
Imprint: Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1958, pp.41-73
 
Notes: Via Np?
Date: 1958
Content: --
Refs: ERD
20:28 - [Letter to Nibs Matthews from Wall on Soul Cake Songs]
Author:Wall, Emily
Title: Matthews Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: Northwich, Cheshire; --
 
Notes: --
Date: --
Content: Songs
Refs: not used
20:29-30V - [Letter to Helm from Wortley on Plays]
Author:Wortley, Russell
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Cambridge; Aug. 5, 1961
 
Notes: --
Date: 1961
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:30R-31 - [Notes on Mummers' Play Rehearsal]
Author:--
Title: "A Christmas Rehearsal"
Journal: The Pall Mall Gazette
Imprint: Dec. 22, 1902, pp.1-2
 
Notes: From Wortley
Date: 1902
Content: --
Refs: --
20:32-35 - [Scottish Guizards]
Author:--
Title: --
Journal: Sharpe's London Magazine
Imprint: No. 10, Jan. 3, 1846, pp.153-54
 
Notes: --
Date: 1846
Content: Text
Refs: --
20:36-37 - [Notes on South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Morris]
Author:Carmichael, Alexander
Title: Carmina Gadelica, Vol. I
Journal: --
Imprint: Edinburgh: the Author, 1900, 207-9
 
Notes: Via Np
Date: 1900
Content: --
Refs: not used
20:38 - [Notes on S. African and Salopian Morris]
Author:L., M
Title: "A Distant Echo?"
Journal: Country Life
Imprint: 98 (Nov. 2, 1945), 781
 
Notes: Via Np?
Date: 1945
Content: --
Refs: --
20:39 - [Notes on Perth Sword Dance]
Author:Flood, William H
Title: The Story of the Bagpipe
Journal: --
Imprint: London: Walter Scott Pub. Co., 1911, pp.162
 
Notes: Via Np
Date: 1911
Content: --
Refs: not used
20:40 - [Extract from Ruffler to Ewart Russell on Northamptom Customs]
Author:Ruffler, F. D
Title: Russell Collection; Peacock Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: Langdon Hills; Nov. 21, 1962
 
Notes: "Np/Bna 6"
Date: 1962
Content: Song
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:41 - [Letter to Helm from Harvey on Peterborough Play]
Author:Harvey, James
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Peterborough; Sept. 18, 1962
 
Notes: --
Date: 1962
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:42-43 - [Letter to Helm from Roberts on Revesby Play]
Author:Roberts, E. H
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Lincoln; Sept. 11, 1962
 
Notes: --
Date: 1962
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:44 - [Letter to Helm from Mealor on Hobby Horse]
Author:Mealor, J. K
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Newark-on-Trent; Sept. 10, 1962
 
Notes: --
Date: 1962
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:45-47 - [Letter to Helm from Huddy on Evesham Mummers, Morris]
Author:Huddy, C. W. T
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Evesham; Nov. 20, 1962
 
Notes: --
Date: 1962
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:48-53 - [Letter to Helm from Froome on Mumming]
Author:Froome, Derek
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Sale, Cheshire; February 1962
 
Notes: Notes on Items in Manchester City News: Dec. 21, 1878; Dec. 28, 1878; Jan. 11, 1879; Jan. 3, 1903; Jan. 10, 1903; Jan. 17, 1903; Jan. 24, 1903; Feb. 7, 1903; Feb. 25, 1905; March 4, 1905; March 11, 1905; March 18, 1905; March 25, 1905; July 9, 1921; July 16, 1921; Also Manchester Guardian: Dec. 26, 1902; Dec. 30, 1902; Jan. 1, 1903
Date: 1962
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:54-55 - [Notes on Old Chorlton Pace-Egging and May Singing]
Author:Sarll, C. F
Title: Interesting Reminiscences of Old Chorlton
Journal: --
Imprint: Chorlton: the Electric Press, --
 
Notes: --
Date: --
Content: --
Refs: not used
20:56-61 - Northleach, Glos., Mummers' Play
Author:Howison, D. R
Title: Howison Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: Northleach; 1962
 
Notes: From Bob Hyde
Date: 1962
Content: Text; Songs; Music
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:62 - [Note on Sherborne, Glos., Mummers' Play]
Author:Howison, D. R.
Title: Howison Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: --; January 1963
 
Notes: --
Date: 1963
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:63-65 - [Notes on Alderley Edge Play]
Author:Howison, D. R
Title: Howison Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: --; September 1962
 
Notes: Includes Letter to Howison from J. H. Barton on Alderley Edge Morris
Date: 1962
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:66-69 - [Notes on Alderley Edge Morris]
Author:Howison, D. R
Title: Howison Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: --; Jan. 13, 1963
 
Notes: From Frank Wood
Date: 1963
Content: Dance
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:70 - [Notes on Crewe Morris]
Author:Howison, D. R
Title: Howison Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: Wheelock and Sandbach; September 1962
 
Notes: From Anon. and Albert Shaw
Date: 1962
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:71-72 - [Notes on Wheelock Morris]
Author:Howison, D. R
Title: Howison Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: Sandbach; September 1962
 
Notes: From Albert Shaw
Date: 1962
Content: Dance
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:73 - [Notes on Chorley Morris]
Author:Pilling, Julian, and D. R. Howison
Title: Pilling Collection; Howison Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: Ormskirk; --
 
Notes: From Emma Vickers
Date: --
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:74 - [Notes on Horwich Morris]
Author:Howison, D. R
Title: Howison Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: Ulverston; --
 
Notes: From A. C. F. Dobson
Date: --
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:75 - [Notes on Ormskirk Morris]
Author:Pilling, Julian, and D. R. Howison
Title: Pilling Collection; Howison Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: Burscough; September 1962
 
Notes: From Emma Vickers
Date: 1962
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:76 - [Notes on Southport Morris]
Author:Howison, D. R
Title: Howison Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: --; September 1962
 
Notes: --
Date: 1962
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:77 - [Letter to Helm from P. H. Cleverley on Beaminster Mummers]
Author:Cleverley, P. H
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Yeovil; Feb. 16, 1963
 
Notes: --
Date: 1963
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:78 - [Extract on Beaminster Mummers]
Author:--
Title: "Beaminster Mummers to Be Revived?"
Journal: Pulman's Weekly News (Dorset and Devon)
Imprint: Nov. 13, 1956, pp.3d
 
Notes: --
Date: 1956
Content: --
Refs: --
20:79-83 - [Symondsbury Mumming Play]
Author:Legg, A. T
Title: "The Symondsbury Mumming Play - Its True Meaning", in F. C. H. Dennett (Ed.), the Dorset Year Book 1960-61
Journal: --
Imprint: Bridport: the Society of Dorset Men, --, pp.139-42
 
Notes: --
Date: --
Content: --
Refs: not used
20:84 - [Notes on Idbury Morris]
Author:Goshawk, Evelyn
Title: Idbury History
Journal: --
Imprint: Oxford: Truex Press, 1961
 
Notes: "Np/Ni 5-6"
Date: 1961
Content: --
Refs: not used
20:85-87 - Armagh (South) Play
Author:Murphy, Michael J
Title: At Slieve Gullion's Foot
Journal: --
Imprint: Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1940, pp.81-84
 
Notes: "Np/Ni 5-6"
Date: 1940
Content: Text
Refs: ERD
20:[88] - Rochdale and District, Lancs., Play
Author:"A North Country Man"
Title: "An Easter Play"
Journal: The Pall Mall Gazette
Imprint: 80:12495 (April 26, 1905), 3c
 
Notes: "Np/L10"
Date: 1905
Content: Text
Refs: --
20:89V-90V - Why Rushbearing?
Author:--
Title: "Why Rushbearing? Why Wakes?"
Journal: --
Imprint: Rochdale: Turner Bros. Asbestos Co., --
 
Notes: --
Date: --
Content: Illus
Refs: --
20: 90R - [Letter to Helm from Burton on Folk Play Distribution]
Author:Burton, R. W
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Esher; Feb. 19, 1963
 
Notes: --
Date: 1963
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:91-92V - [Letter to Helm from Burton on Folk Play Distribution]
Author:Burton, R. W
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Esher; March 7, 1963
 
Notes: --
Date: 1963
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:92R-98 - The Story of the Wake
Author:Daniel, Clarence
Title: "The Story of the 'Wake'"
Journal: Derbyshire Countryside
Imprint: 24:4 (June-July 1959), 18-19, 39
 
Notes: Clipping; Note by Np
Date: 1959
Content: Photos; Song
Refs: ICD
20:99-106V - The Steel Age
Author:--
Title: The Steel Age: a Short Historical Survey (Rev. Ed.)
Journal: --
Imprint: --: British Iron and Steel Federation, 1954
 
Notes: --
Date: 1954
Content: --
Refs: --
20:106-122V - [Morris Dance and Hornpipe]
Author:Blume, Friedrich
Title: Die Musik in Geschichte Und Gegenwart
Journal: --
Imprint: Kassel: Wilhelmshohe (?), --, pp
 
Notes: German Reprint; English Translations
Date: --
Content: Photos; Map; Music
Refs: not used
20:122R-125V - The "Alcestis" As Folk Drama
Author:Binney, E. H
Title: "The 'Alcestus' As Folk Drama"
Journal: The Classical Review
Imprint: 19 (March 1905), 98-100
 
Notes: --
Date: 1905
Content: --
Refs: not used
20:125R-129V - Der Halleiner Schwerttanz
Author:Wolfram, Richard
Title: "Der Halleiner Schwerttanz"
Journal: Der Anschnitt
Imprint: 7:4 (July 1955), 2-8
 
Notes: --
Date: 1955
Content: Photos
Refs: --
20:129R-133V - Bergmannische Tanze
Author:Wolfram, Richard
Title: "Bergmannische Tanze"
Journal: Der Anschnitt
Imprint: 5:1 (April 1953), 6-10
 
Notes: --
Date: 1953
Content: Photos
Refs: not used
20:133R - [Letter to Norman Peacock from Willis on Cheshire Souling]
Author:Willis, Joseph H
Title: Peacock Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: Binscarth, Manitoba; Feb. 27, 1963
 
Notes: --
Date: 1963
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:134-136 - The Souling Play [Cheshire]
Author:Willis, Joseph H
Title: Peacock Collection; Willis Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: Cheshire; --
 
Notes: --
Date: --
Content: Text
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:137 - [Letter to Helm from Hole on Folklore Journals]
Author:Hole, Christina
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Oxford; Feb. 21, 1963
 
Notes: --
Date: 1963
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:138 - [Letter to Helm from Hole on Oxford Times Items]
Author:Hole, Christina
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Oxford; Feb. 19, 1963
 
Notes: --
Date: 1963
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:139-140 - [Letter to Helm from Carter on Mumming References]
Author:Carter, Kenneth
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Dorchester; Feb. 12, 1963
 
Notes: --
Date: 1963
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:141-145 - Pace-Egging Play
Author:Postlethwaite, T. N
Title: "Pace-Egging Play"
Journal: The North Lonsdale Magazine
Imprint: 3:11 (1900), 268
 
Notes: --
Date: 1900
Content: Song; Tune; Text; Photos
Refs: not used
20:146 - [Extract on Blackley Wakes]
Author:Bamford, Samuel
Title: --
Journal: Manchester Guardian
Imprint: Aug. 9, 1858
 
Notes: --
Date: 1858
Content: --
Refs: ICD
20:147-149 - The Mummers [Woodburn]
Author:--
Title: "The Mummers"
Journal: The Bucks Herald
Imprint: Dec. 29, 1923, pp.5
 
Notes: --
Date: 1923
Content: Text
Refs: --
20:150-151 - The Mummers [Haddenham]
Author:--
Title: "The Mummers"
Journal: The Bucks Herald
Imprint: Jan. 5, 1924, pp.2
 
Notes: --
Date: 1924
Content: Text
Refs: --
20:152 - [Letter to Helm from Wheeler on Mumming Articles]
Author:Wheeler, D
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Devizes; March 7, 1963
 
Notes: --
Date: 1963
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
20:153 - Cheshire Souling Song
Author:Wall, E
Title: English Folk Dance and Song Society Collection; Helm Collection - Copy
Journal: --
Imprint: Northwich; Jan. 23, 1963
 
Notes: Rvw Collection?
Date: 1963
Content: Song; Music
Refs: --
20:154 - [Letter to Helm from -- on Dendron and Furness Pace-Egg Play]
Author:--
Title: Helm Collection
Journal: --
Imprint: Barrow-in-Furness; Feb. 12, 1963
 
Notes: --
Date: 1963
Content: --
Refs: ICD; ERD; RAD
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