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Personal archives of William Roy MacKenzie
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Letter from W.L. Grant to William Roy Mackenzie

File contains a letter from W.L. Grant, principal of Upper Canada College, to William Roy Mackenzie. In the letter, Grant notifies Mackenzie that he just completed a review of Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia and asks if Mackenzie has come across the shanty "Across the Western Ocean."

Personal archives of William Roy MacKenzie

  • MS-2-296
  • Collection
  • 1911-1953
Collection contains a manuscript of Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia and related material, including page proofs, research notes, off-print, and correspondence. Material primarily documents Mackenzie's interest in ballads from Nova Scotia.

Mackenzie, William Roy

Reviews of Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia

File contains four reviews of Mackenzie's book, Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia. Reviews are written by W.L. Grant, Carl Sandburg, S.B. Hustvedt, and Ethel Sturtevant. The review by Stutevant is excerpted from an issue of the Journal of American Folklore, the other reviews are typed transcriptions.