Editing Thomas the Rhymer (section)

====Mrs Brown's ballads====
Mrs Brown, also known as [[Anna Gordon (ballad collector)|Anna Gordon]] or Mrs Brown of Falkland (1747–1810),<ref name="bronson"/><ref name="rieuwerts"/> who was both Scott's and Jamieson's source, maintained that she had heard them sung to her as a child.<ref name="anderson-ltr"/> She had learned to sing a repertoire of some three dozen ballads from her aunt, Mrs Farquheson.<ref group="lower-alpha">who learned them at the estate of her husband called Allan-a-quoich, by the waterfall of [[Linn of Quoich|Linn a Quoich]], near the source of the [[River Dee, Aberdeenshire|River Dee]] in [[Braemar]], [[Aberdeenshire]]</ref><ref name="bronson">{{cite journal|last=Bronson|first=Bertrand H.|title=Mrs. Brown and the Ballad|journal=California Folklore Quarterly|volume=4|number=2|year=1945|pages=129–140 |doi=10.2307/1495675|jstor=149567}}</ref><ref name="perry">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Perry |first=Ruth |title=Artistic Representation: The Famous Ballads of Anna Gordon, Mrs Brown |encyclopedia=A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment |editor-last=Pollak |editor-first=Ellen |volume=4 |series=Cultural Histories |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=2012 |pages=187–208 |hdl=1721.1/69940 |url=http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/69940 |doi=10.5040/9781350048157-ch-008 |isbn=978-1-3500-4815-7}}</ref><ref name="rieuwerts">{{cite book|last=Rieuwerts|first=Sigrid|title=The Ballad Repertoire of Anna Gordon, Mrs Brown of Falkland|publisher=Scottish Text Society|year=2011|isbn=978-1897976326}}; [http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/jfrr/article/view/3018/2894 Reviewed by Julie Henigan] in ''Journal of Folklore Research Reviews'' and [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Ballad+Repertoire+of+Anna+Gordon,+Mrs+Brown+of+Falkland.-a0274956908 by David Atkinson] in ''Folk Music Journal'' (23 Dec 2011)</ref> Mrs Brown's nephew Robert Eden Scott transcribed the music, and the manuscript was available to Scott and others.<ref name="rieuwerts"/><ref>Quoting from letter from Thomas Gordon: "In conversation I mentioned them to your Father [i.e. William Tytler], at whose request my Grandson Mr Scott, wrote down a parcel of them as his aunt sung them. Being then but a meer novice in musick, he added in his copy such musical notes as he supposed..."; and later: "The manuscript that was being passed around among Anderson, Percy, Scott, and Jamieson had been penned by Anna Brown's nephew, Robert Scott, who took down the words and music to the ballads as his aunt sung them at William Tytler's request in 1783."{{Harvnb|Perry|2012|pp=10–12}}</ref> However different accounts have been given, such as "an old maid-servant who had been long as the nursemaid being the one to teach Mrs Brown."<ref>{{Harvnb|Murray|1875|pp=liii}}</ref>