Catalogue description Papers of the Rev. Herbert H. Malleson

List of the papers of the Rev. Herbert H. Malleson relating to his interest in the gipsies, and his contacts with the Gipsy Lore Society.

Members of the Gipsy-phile circle mentioned in the correspondence, apart from those already noted in the list, include:-

Walter Theadore Watts Dunton: William Henry Hudson: John St. Loe Strachey, journalist and editor of the Cornhill Magazine in 1896, editor and proprietor of the Spectator 1898 - 1915: John Sampson, romany scholar who made a study of the dialect of the Welsh gipsies.

Robert Andrew Scott Macfie, the secretary of the Gipsy Lore Society, was an industrialist, most likely the son of Robert Andrew Macfie, sugar refiner of Edinburgh and Liverpool.

The papers have been kept in the original seven packets and listed packet by packet.

Malleson, Herbert H, fl 1907-1919, vicar, of Herefordshire

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