I just remembered a tiny detail about Sir John Macgregor Murray that didn’t make it into my recent Folk Music Journal article!
213 years ago today, we’d have found him at his writing desk, Christmas Day or not. He was writing to Lewis Gordon about,
‘inspecting the Materials collected by the Society.’
This was in connection with the Gaelic dictionary project. In fairness, they didn’t make a big splash of Christmas then. At least he was doing something he enjoyed!
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‘Sir John Macgregor Murray: Preserver of Highland Culture, Music and Song’. Folk Music Journal vol. 13 no.1, pp.50-63.
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 