The Society was revived for a third series of the Journal in 1922, with Scott Macfie as official Editor from 1933, but his death on 9 June 1935 deprived him from celebrating its Jubilee in 1938. The new series of the Journal flourished under Scott Macfie's editorship until 1914, when he left to serve as Quartermaster-Sergeant with the Liverpool Scottish Regiment in the First World War. I think it is too fat, and some people have criticised it for being sedate, whereas a Gypsy bird, they say, should be impertinent and lively.' MacRitchie thanked Scott Macfie for 'the animated and `raffish' wildfowl' he drew on letters in the interim, and the progress made by the Society and the first issue of the Journal can be measured by their demeanour. The loss of the original block in the post gave him the opportunity to ask whether, 'In making a new cut perhaps somebody who knows about wag-tails could correct the old design. By June, Scott Macfie had exhausted his initial stock of stationery, and ordered more from Oxford University Press. Stationery bearing an early version of the Society's water-wagtail emblem was produced by the Chiswick Press. By the end of March, he had arranged for the cover of the Journal to be the subject of one of The Studio's design competitions. Scott Macfie worked quickly, exploiting the Scottish connection he shared with MacRitchie to get a press notice about the revived Society into Scotia on 2 February 1907. In 1907, Robert Andrew Scott Macfie, a Liverpool businessman, and member of the University Club (which also included the scholars and gypsiologists Kuno Meyer, Harald Ehrenborg and John Sampson), was persuaded by Sampson and MacRitchie to revive the Society, or 'set the old vardo in motion again', as the latter put it in a letter of 31 December 1906. The first series of the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society ran from 1888-1892, under the Secretaryship of David MacRitchie. The Gypsy Lore Society was founded in May 1888 'with the object of investigating the Gypsy question in as thorough and many-sided a manner as possible', publishing a quarterly journal as the means to achieving this end.

Katy Hooper, Special Collections Librarian, September 2000Ĭase 1: Scott Macfie and the Gypsy Lore Society

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