Articles, lectures and talks, 1951-1957

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Comprises:

Iona and Peter Opie: 'Burns and the Nursery', Scots Chronicle, 1951. [Copy of the journal]
Iona and Peter Opie: 'The Literary Origins of Children's Rhymes and Songs', paper read before the Folk-Lore Society at University College, London, 20 June 1951. [Typescript with corrections]
Peter Opie: 'The What? and Why? of Folklore', [talk at] CPRE Alton, 10 October 1951, [notes and draft].
Iona and Peter Opie: 'The Preservation of Folk Song in Juvenile Literature', Journal of the Folk Dance and Song Society, Vol.6 No.3, December 1951. [Manuscript, offprint]
Iona and Peter Opie: 'How we play and what we say', The Village, Vol.8 No.1, Spring 1953. [Copy of the journal]
[Peter Opie]: 'Old wives tales', Weekly News, 5 May 1953. [Typescript]
Peter Opie: 'The Collection of Folklore in England', Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol.CI No.4906, 21 August 1953. [Copies of the journal, manuscript, photographs; correspondence with the Royal Society of Arts].
Peter Opie: 'The Natural History of English Oral Lore', talk at the Department of Biochemistry, 7 September 1954. [Manuscript notes]
Peter Opie: 'England, the Great Undiscovered', paper read before the meeting of the Folk-Lore Society on 20 May 1975, and published in Folk-Lore, Vol.LXV, December 1954. [Typescript and offprint]
Iona Opie: Introduction of Peter Opie at a speech at Festival Hall [meeting of a society?], c.1955. [Manuscript]
Peter Opie: 'The Present State of Folklore Studies in England', Folk-Lore, Vol.LXVIII, December 1957. [Manuscript, typescript, offprint]
[Peter Opie]: 'Collecting Folklore', talk at Dyson Perrins Laboratory [for Oxfordshire and District Folklore Society?], n.d. [1950s]. [Manuscript drafts and notes]