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The Internet Archive scans used as the source for this digital edition of Songs and their Singers also included a handwritten note from Phil May to the Irish baritone Harry Plunket Greene (1865-1936), who had written to May following the publication of Songs and their Singers.

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By Phil May

Japanese Proofs

London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Ld.

1898.

Hand-written note from author

[Transcription of hand-written note:

Rowsley House
Holland Park R
Kensington W

My Dear Plunket Greene

Thanks for your note. I
have just returned from Sheffield
and found your note. I am very
glad you like "Songs & their
Singers" series. The originals are
my property and I have been keeping
them in hand until the set is
complete. Mr Ernest Brown
of the Fine Art Society, 148 New
Bond St. has all the arrangements
for selling them. I am about
to write him, and tell him I
should like you to have them
at any reasonable price you
could arrange.

I should very much
like to meet you again some
day, if we could arrange it

Thankyou
Your friend
Phil May]

Contents.

"Beauty's Eyes."

"We'll all go a Hunting To-day."

"I'd be a Butterfly."

"Drink to me only with thine Eyes."

"The Storm Fiend."

"My Mother bids me Bind my Hair."

"The Warrior Bold."

"The Heart Bow'd Down."

"Only This!"

"Put me in my Little Bed."

"The Gay Tom Tit."

"'Tis Hard to Give the Hand, & c."

"To Blossoms!"

"The Devout Lover."

"There's only one Girl in the World for me!"

[End of Songs and their Singers by Phil May]