Material relating to Shanties (part III): Draft for book 'Cruising with Carpenter' along with articles, music, songs, research, correspondence and bibliography relating to this. Collated by Mr Roy Palmer

Includes 'Cruising with Carpenter' by Roy Palmer [James M. Carpenter, an american who spent 3 years in Britain collecting folk songs] in ENGLISH DANCE & SONG, 47:2 (1984), 14; an article 'Here We Come Home in a Leaky Ship!': The Shanty Collection of James Madison Carpenter' by Robert Young Walser, in FOLK MUSIC JOURNAL, Volume 7, Number 4, 1998, pp.471-495 and lyrics for 'Girls around Cape Horn' recorded in 1928 by James Thorton, Dublin, Ireland. Large folder of articles, sheet music, lyrics and notes.

Record Details

Item reference: PMR/4/3; REG14/000580.23 PMR/23
Catalogue Section: Artificial collections previously assembled
Level: FILE
Extent: 1 folder
Date made: circa 1928-1998
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London