ABSTRACT
Lucy had gained her credentials at first through her family connection and then through her career as a performer and friendships with Fuller Maitland and Barclay Squire. Her constant haunting of British Museum, whether in search of old tunes or editing Purcell or Bach cantatas, gained her entry into the more rarefied atmosphere of musical scholarship. By 1906 Lucy was engaged with the thought of expanding her collecting in scotland and she invited the folksong scholar Anne Geddes Gilchrist to lunch 'to talk folksong', and a letter correspondence ensued. Gilchrist had joined the Folk-Song Society who knew a lot about Scottish folksong and was willing to share information. The collecting in the Scottish Highlands prompted Lucy to revisit her lowland roots. A Collecting Episode in the Scottish Borders, Folk Music Journal. The tunes were less readily identifiable, but Lucy had already found a knowledgeable source of song information in Gavin Greig, a notable musician and collector in his own right.
