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Research article - NOW THAT MR WH GILL HAS MADE OPEN CONFESSION

27 May 2015

“NOW THAT MR WH GILL HAS MADE OPEN CONFESSION”
W.H. GILL, T.E. BROWN, AND MANX NATIONAL SONGS (1896)
 
By Stephen Miller, Vienna 2015
 
In 1916, P.W. Caine wrote to Sophia Morrison:
 
Now that Mr WH Gill has made open confession on the subject of what T.E.B.
thought about his & Mr AW Moore’s collections of Manx music, I think that if I
had letter No. 45 of the Rydings correspondence in my hands again, I would quote
from it more unrestrainedly; but it’s not worth while—perhaps it might be
dangerous—to ask Mrs Ryding for it again.
 
What had moved Caine to comment was the publication in Mannin, a small press magazine established and edited by Morrison, of a series of pieces by W.H. Gill, under the running title of “Manx Miniatures.” Caine was referring to the fourth and
final piece, “A Plea for Modern Manx Music.”
 
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