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Description: | Letter of thanks from Joseph Crawhall to printer Thomas Allan for a volume of Joe Wilson's songs. Dated 19th November, 1890, this is a fine example of Crawhall's unique hand.Joseph Crawhall was born at West House, Newcastle in 1821, the eldest son of Joseph Crawhall the industrialist. A renowned woodcut artist, he also had a great interest in music, landscape painting, and fishing.In 1886 Thomas Allan ordered one thousand of Joe Wilson's Temperance songs to be printed at an enormous profit, and four years later put together an edition of Wilson's songs under the title 'Tyneside songs and drolleries, readings and Temperance songs'. Around this time Allan was sending out a number of song books he had recently published, largely material by Joe Wilson, and there are a number of other letters in the collection which acknowledge the receipt of Allan's publications.The letter forms part of a collection held by Newcastle City Library. The collection comprises much of the original material collected by Thomas Allan for the publication of 'Allan's Tyneside songs'. From original Ned Corvan manuscripts to photographs of Joe Wilson, and correspondence from local figures such as Joseph Cowen, the collection provides a genuinely fascinating glimpse of some of the region's best known composers. The material dates from 1860 to 1890, spanning the dates of the various publications of the book in 1862, 1863, 1864, 1872, 1873 and 1891. ; Song manuscripts, correspondence and broadsides collected for the publication of Allan's Tyneside Songs. | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle City Library | Subjects: | letter | Temporal: | start=1861;end=1900; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:L0114001 | Go to resource |
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