Album Summary: The Abbotsford Collection of Border Ballads (c.1827) is an important but neglected manuscript put together mainly by the celebrated amateur singer and harper, Sophia Scott-Lockhart (1799-1837). It contains 125 songs, including tunes and lyrics not found elsewhere, plus alternative versions of classic ballads that her father had previously published in his non-musical Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802+). In 1833, her husband, John Lockhart printed 10 of these in his classic edition of the Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. This ScotMus.com edition is currently based on those prints, but I hope to include more of this valuable collection in the future.