The Reverend Joseph Woodfall (1824-1908) collected and edited English ballads and poetry. His publications include The Roxburghe Ballads and the Westminster Drolleries of 1671 and 1672. The collection consists of holograph letters signed from various persons to the Reverend Ebsworth of Edinburgh and holograph notes by Ebsworth on ballads and religious subjects.

The Reverend Joseph Woodfall, M.A. was born in 1824; graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge in 1864, and was ordained in the same year; in 1871 he became the vicar of Molash, Kent; collected and edited English ballads and poetry; publications include The Roxburghe Ballads (editor, 1869), and the Westminster Drolleries of 1671 and 1672 (editor, 1875); he died in 1908.

2 boxes (1.0 linear ft.)

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