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Notes regarding Harry Reid Croker's marriage

Item consists of handwritten notes likely drafted by Roy Laurence in 1937, about findings related to Harry Croker's marriage. Item is "Enclosure 3" accompanying correspondence between Thomas Raddall and Roy Laurence.

Research notes on "The Sarah Croker Case"

Item consists of annotated typescript notes compiled by Thomas Raddall from multiple sources (including Roy Laurence's testimony), around the death of Sarah Croker Giberson, in preparation for a chapter on Sadie Davenport in his publication "Footsteps on Old Floors", published in 1968.

From title page: "Sources: personal conversations with Halifax lawyer (later Judge) M.B.Archibald, who represented the Salvation Army in the case: personal conversations and complete copies of the court documents supplied by lawyer Roy A. Lawrence
of Annapolis, who represented Blanchard Giberson in the case."

Correspondence from E. F. Street to Thomas Head Raddall

Item consists of typed correspondence from E.F. Street, of the Committee on Camp Hill Cemetery, to Thomas Raddall, regarding the location of Sarah Croker's burial. The letter is annotated with inked additions, with a crude map marked to verso.

Diary, December 28, 1957-May 19, 1959

Item is one volume of a diary of Thomas H. Raddall, dating from December 28, 1957 - May 19, 1959 containing accounts of his son's University education and fees at Dalhousie, golf games, weather, and reflections on his writing career since quitting his day job 20 years ago.

"Chanties and Other Songs of the Sea" : [manuscript]

Item is a collection of transcribed sea chanties, as sung aboard vessels out of Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the 1870's, 1880's, and 1890's, and recalled in whole or part by William H. Smith, of Liverpool, N.S. (born 1867). The words were taken down and prepared in typescript by his son T. Brenton Smith, in the year 1940. Includes the following chanties: "The Loss of the Emma-Jane," "Lay Out, Tack Sheets and Haul," "Bound to Rio," "Blow the Man Down," "Old Hoss," "Screwing in Song," "Way Down in Tennessee," "The City of Baltimore," "Around the World and Home Again," "Old Mother Head's," "Sauer Kraut," "Arriving back at Liverpool," "The Mary," "Brigantine Scrocco," "The Big Five Gallon Jar," "Shiloh Brown," "Shanadore [Shenandoah]," "What You Going to do with a Drunken Sailor," "Goodbye, Fare Ye Well," "Say Old Man," "Harbour Grace," "Liverpool Packet," "Fire in the Foretop," "Sailor's Burial at Sea," "On the Banks of the Sacremento," "Rolling Home to Merry England," "Then Turn out You Jolly Tars," "Whiskey for my Johnnie," "The Banks of Newfoundland," "Hangman Johnnie," "On the Plains of Mexico," "We'll Pay Paddy Doyle for his Boots," "Isle of Fugi," "Old England's Gained the Day," and "Walking in de Middle of de Road." Includes annotations about the chanties, some of which are handwritten and by Thomas H. Raddall.

"Irish Settlers in Queens County"

Item consists of Thomas H. Raddall's typed research notes (with handwritten annotations) related to Irish emigration to Queens County, likely compiled in the early-1950s.

"Old Sailor's Ballads, Collected by the Late Capt. Fenwick Hatt of Liverpool, N.S."

File contains a transcription of ballads. Includes: "The Frozen Girl," "On the Banks of Newfoundland," "The Worn-Out Sailor," "The Rose of Britons Isle," "The Banks of Brandywine," "The Pride of Glenco," "Sweet Jinny on the Moor," [Untitled], "The Blind Sailor," "The Ship Lady Sherbrooke," "The Cabin Boy," "The Braes of Balquhidder," "The Ramblin' Irishman," "The Desolate Widow," "The Bounty Jumper," "Our Fifer Boy," "The Ghostly Sailors," "The Cumberland," and "Bold Jack Donahue." Includes handwritten annotations by Raddall

"Old Wall-paper in Nova Scotia"

File contains an adaptation of an article of the same title written by Blodwen Davies, printed in the Halifax Herald, May 27,1929, with handwritten notes by Raddall. File also contains an associated article "They Play House with Antiquity" by Claire Van Wart.
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