The map below appeared in that second edition. In their 46 weeks in the field, they collected 1612 specimens, publishing their findings as English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1917), with an expanded second edition in 1932. Upon meeting Campbell and seeing her work, English folklorist Cecil Sharp at once recognized that Campbell had “tapped a mine which if properly and scientifically explored would yield results-musical, historical, literary, etc.-of the first importance.” (I quote this from a very useful 1999 article by Michael Yates, “Cecil Sharp in America: Collecting in the Appalachians.”) In the following years Sharp went on three extensive collecting trips with his amanuensis Maud Karpeles.

Olive Dame Campbell by chance heard a student at the Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky sing the old English ballad “Barbara Allen,” and she thereafter began canvassing the Appalachian region for remnants of other folksongs from the British Isles. In fact, I am never satisfied.”ĭorothy L. Between you and me, would you be satisfied it was suicide if the reward was claimed?” “I don’t know,” said Wimsey. I might even get them to offer a reward.” “Why not? Anyway, pitch it to ’em hot and strong, Sally.” “I will-for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer. I shall add, of course, that you, knowing the enormous circulation of the Morning Star, are relying on the wide publicity it will give to this statement to etcetera, etcetera. But until that missing link in the chain of evidence is reconstructed, I shall hold that Paul Alexis was foully and brutally murdered, and I shall spare no efforts to bring the murderer to the judgment he has so richly deserved.’ How's that, Sally?” “Not too bad. If Paul Alexis can be proved to have bought the razor, I shall consider the suicide theory to have been proved up to the hilt.

How did the razor get into the hands of Paul Alexis? If once I could be satisfied of that, the answer might at once set at rest all my doubt. “‘The trail,’” dictated Wimsey, “‘breaks off at the crucial point.

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