Scope and Contents The collection includes copies and extracts from the notebooks of Robert Hird and David Naitby, together with fieldwork collected by Richard Blakeborough; original dialect rhymes and sketches; published folklore articles and folktales; the correspondence and papers of Richard Blakeborough and John Fairfax-Blakeborough. The original manuscripts of Hird and Naitby which Richard Blakeborough copied in part, and from which the older part of his folklore collection derives, appear to...