ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Ettlinger's Pamphlet collection

Alison Petch,
Researcher 'The Other Within' project

One of the pamphlets in Ettlinger's collection in the Balfour Library.

One of the pamphlets in Ettlinger's collection in the Balfour Library.

One of the pamphlets in Ettlinger's collection in the Balfour Library.

One of the pamphlets in Ettlinger's collection in the Balfour Library.

Cover of one of the pamphlets in Ettlinger's collection in the Balfour Library.

Cover of one of the pamphlets in Ettlinger's collection in the Balfour Library.

Inside cover of one of the pamphlets in Ettlinger's collection in the Balfour Library.

Inside cover of one of the pamphlets in Ettlinger's collection in the Balfour Library.

Ellen Ettlinger obviously kept the pamphlets and booklets she obtained, and the off-prints she was given by other authors. She bequeathed them to the Pitt Rivers Museum in case they would be helpful to future scholars and they are now held in the Balfour Library at the museum, a resource for students, staff and visiting researchers. A detailed examination of these has shown relatively few pamphlets relating to the folklore of England. Here is a list of the relevant material:

1. Box marked Ettlinger collection Pamphlets I

a/ 'The Scouring of the White Horse' G.W.B. Huntingford The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 87, No. 1 (Jan. - Jun., 1957), pp. 105-114 [either off-print, or cut from JRAI]
b/ "Folk Society" and "Western Civilization". A suggestion to the study of European Folk Cultures Albert Eskeröd, Stockholm. Folkliv 17/18 (1953-54), 53-60. [Off-print or torn out]
c/ H.A. Beecham and John W.Y. Higgs 'The story of farm tools' Young Farmers' Club Booklet no. 24 published by Evans Brothers Ltd. for the National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs. [first edition 1951]
d/ 'Views of Rosslyn Chapel'
e/ The Hatcher Review number 6 Salisbury Local History Autumn/Winter 1978-9
f/ Saint Samson in Cornwall by Revd Gilbert H. Doble

2. Ettlinger Collection Pamphlets II

a/ Battersea Parish Church History and Guide book 3rd edition 1972
b/ Offprint of The Stone Sculptures on White Island Lower Lough Erne Co. Fermanagh by Ettlinger. In final end note she thanks 'I am greatly indebted for advice in the preparation of this article to Father Romuald Baurreiss, O.S.B. of Munich, and to Professor I. Ll. Foster, Sir John L. Myres and Mr. C.H. Roberts of Oxford.' [Man, nos 53/54 March 1953 p34]
Romuald Baurreiss was a Benedictine scholar apparently, Myres is obvious and CH Roberts appears to be Colin Henderson Roberts (1909-1990) who wrote about religious topics, according to National Portrait Gallery he was Publisher and Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press; Classicist [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp75781]
c/ Stonehenge and Midsummer: A new interpretation by A.T. Hatto Man July 1953 Nos 150-151 pp 101-105 plus related correspondence
d/ Offprint of KP Oakley's 'Fossil shell observed by Acheulian man' Antiquity vol 47 1973
e/ RAI Report of Council and Annual Accounts for year ending Dec 31st 1976

Ettlinger Collection IV Agsax Bibliography Bonser, W.

This appears to be a bibliography of Anglo Saxon sources, probably Bonser, Wilfrid, 1887-1972.
Title An Anglo-Saxon and Celtic bibliography (450-1087) / by Wilfrid Bonser.
Publisher Oxford : Blackwell, 1957.
As OLIS has it. It appears to be an offprint

Folklore Mrs Ettlinger collection I (Part I)

Copy of 'The Studies of the Scottish folklorist Robert Jamieson into Latvian Mythology and Folklore' [Haralds Biezais Uppsala] 1.1
'Dorset Up Along and Down Along: A collection of History, Tradition, Folklore, Flower Names and Herbal Lore gathered together by members of Women's Institutes' edited by Marianne R. Dacombe [1951?]
'English Dance and Song' Magazine of the English Folk Dance and Song Society March 1950 vol XIV No 2.
'English Dance and Song' Magazine of the English Folk Dance and Song Society May 1950 vol XIV No 3.
Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society vol VI no 1 December 1949
Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society vol VI no 2 December 1950
Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society vol VI no 3 December 1951
Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society vol VII no 1 December 1952
Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society vol VII no 2 December 1953
Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society vol VII no 3 December 1954
Various reports of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
A guide to Cregneash the Manx Open-air Museum

Folklore Mrs Ettlinger collection I (Part 2)

'The Inlaid Paving Tiles of Wilts' Frank Stevens Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine vol xlvii pp 358-378
'The Barrows of Winterslow' Frank Stevens Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine vol xlviii pp 174-182
45 Questionnaire No. 1 on Scottish Life and Tradition Issued by The School of Scottish Studies The University of Edinburgh
'Touching for the King's Evil' John Todd Modern Churchman March 1943 off print
'Is our King a Layman?' John Todd Modern Churchman March 1944 off print
'The Palimpsest Brass of Waterperry Church' John Todd Modern Churchman vol VIII part VI March 1949 off print
'The Folk Museum of West Yorkshire' Shibden Hall Halifax

Folklore Mrs Ettlinger collection I (Part 3)

Nothing of interest

Folklore Mrs Ettlinger collection Ia (Part 1)

'Guide to the Church of St Mary Sompting [chichester]' edited by Walter H. Godfrey
'Guide to the Church of St Nicholas Worth [chichester]' edited by Walter H. Godfrey
'A pottery mould from Horsepath, Oxford' Mark Hassell reprint from Oxoniensia vols XVII/XVIII 1952-3 p. 231-4 with handwritten message 'Submitted by the new member of the Oxfordshire Folk Lore Society (done by he was 13!) With greetings and good wishes from The Hassalls'
Offprints of Papers given by Hildburgh to Japan Society of London on various aspects of superstitition / magic
Book 'Singing flails' by Albert Sandklef 1949

Folklore Mrs Ettlinger collection Ia (Part 2)

1A.22 'Bygone days at Iffley' Edward Cordrey 1956
'St Nectan' Revd Gilbert H. Doble
'S. Meubred, Cardynham: A history of the church and parish' Rev Canon G.H. Doble
'Saint Teilo' by Rev Gilbert H. Doble
'Saint Dubricius' Doble [NB these are all cornish]
'Old Sarum Wiltshire' Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings 1953

Folklore Mrs Ettlinger collection Ia (Part 3)

Various offprints by Barbara Aitken [F-M]

Folklore Mrs Ettlinger collection II (Part I)

Devon's Folklore and Legends A. Farquharson-Coe James Pike Ltd. [part of Viewing Devon series] 1975
Series of offprints [not English stuff] from Roger S Loomis
Offprint of 'Some Notes on the Pharmacology and Therapeutic Value of Folk Medicines I by Leslie F. Newman vol LIX Sept 1948 and Part II Vol LIX December 1948
'The progress of British Folk-lore Studies during the War Period' Leslie F. Newman, Halfacre, Blakeney Sonderabzug Extrait Schweiz Archiv für Volkeskunde Band XLV (1948) Archives suisses des traditions populaires Tome XLV (1948)
'The Local Society in the Community of Today' Address by Dr FJ North President of the Assembly of Corresponding Societies British Association [BAAS] Sheffield meeting address given on August 30 1956 reprint from 'The Advancement of Science' No. 50, September 1956

Folklore Mrs Ettlinger collection II (Part 2)

'Country Buildings and Handicraft in Ancient Cottages and Farmhouses' Alfred H Powell SPAB
'Celtic Smiths and Satirists: Partners in Sorcery' Mary Claire Randolph Journal of English Literary History vol 8 no 3 Sept 1941 [offprint from author]

Folklore Mrs Ettlinger collection II (Part 3)

'The Cathedral Church of St Patrick Armagh Restoration 1950'
'Blaise Castle House Folk Museum: Short Guide'
The Church of St Mary of Ottery in the county of Devon'
'Exhibition of Paisley Shawls' [Scottish Girls training corps]
Leaflet for Skansen [Skansen Buildings and Animals: A short guide for visitors' Stockholm 1949]

Folklore Mrs Ettlinger collection II (Part IV)

A little guide to Wimborne Minster [no date]
C.C. Jung-Institute Zurich Aims and Objectives 1949
Article from the Listener dated 13 May 1971 'Britain's Chorographer - Hugh Trevor-Roper discusses William Camden
English Bach Festival London / Oxford 1972 programme
Visitors guide to Country workshops in Britain 1970 [specially selected list of country craftsmen who welcome people to their workshops and sell from there]
Guide to the Nordiska Museet Stockholm [in English] with similar pamphlets in Swedish about same place [it is Scandinavian museum]
Also Museums in Stockholm and its surroundings [in English]
V and A 'Early medieval art in the North'
[several pamphlets about Wallonia stuff, in Walloon]
Copy of an article by BEB Fagg 'The Rock Gong complex today and in prehistoric times' [sent to EE by ?BEBF as it says with compliments of Curator [published in Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria Vol 1 1956

[Unlabelled box, therefore might not be Ettlinger]
Proceedings and report of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire 1937, 1938, 1940

Red boxes

I

Nothing of much interest re England


II
'Dried Cats' Margaret M. Howard Man 1951 252 [there is letter from someone in univ mus looking at cat and saying died naturally, seems EE might have facilitated this]

III
'Arthurian tradition and folklore' RS Loomis Folklore vol 69 march 1958 [judging by handwritten dedication, he obviously stayed with her]
'Arthurian literature in the Middle ages' Loomis
Robert Ranulph Marett: A report of the Memorial meeting of the Oxford University Anthropological Society' 4 March 1943
'The collection of Folklore in England' Peter Opie Journal of the Royal Society of the Arts no 4906 vol CI 21 August 1953
'The Wax Images found in Exeter Cathedrail' UM Radford Antiquaries Journal vol XXIX July-Oct 1949 nos 3-4
'Kinship and Inheritance' Lord Raglan RAI occasional paper no 16, 1963
'Andrew Lang: His place in Anthropolog' Herbert Jennings Rose 25 April 1951 Lang lecture
'Folk-life studies in Britain and abroad' RU Sayce Section H BAAS [no date]

IV
'The World Upside Down Shall Be: A note on the folklore of Doomsday' Jacqueline Simpson, Journal of American Folklore 1978
'Charles I and the King's Evil' MR Toynbee Folklore LXI March 1950
'The Hatcher Review' Salisbury A region and its centres vol 2 no 15
"Haddon Hall'
'The Medieval Painted Retables in Norwich Cathedral' Gilbert Thurlow
Another copy of the 1953 OUAS meeting about Anthropology at Oxford
'Ranworth a village and church on the Broads'
'The Well dressing guide' Crichton Porteous
'A short history of Tissington and its parish church'
'Tissington well dressing: A brief history and details of the service' [NB lot of colour photos of well dressing found loose in this]
'Worstead Church Norfolk'

The remainder of the pamphlets and offprints are in German and relate to German folklore

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