For the Violin. 3¾″ × 6¼″, 82 pp., red quarter-leather with marbled boards. Contents consist of eighty-eight titles, but the tunes are without words and directions. The titles are noted down in Clare's hand. This is No. 109 in the Peterborough Centenary Catalogue." John Clare, Northampton Manuscript No. 13 Catalogue entry reads: "An oblong music book of song and dance tunes. Undated. 5¾″ × 9½″, 56 pp., blue paper covers. Contents consist of 180 titles. Directions for some of the country dances are given in abbreviated form, but the only words given are those for Black Ey'd Susan and Dibdin's The Sailors Journal. The titles are noted down in Clare's hand. A few fragmentary lines of verse are scribbled inside the back cover. This is No. 108 in the Peterborough Centenary Catalogue." John Clare, Northampton Manuscript No.18 Catalogue entry reads: "A small oblong notebook, entitled Old Songs & Ballads, which Clare was using in 1827–8. 4″ × 6¼″, 34 pp. (+146 blank), worn brown half-calf with marbled boards. The introduction begins: ‘I commenced sometime ago with an intention of making a collection of old Ballads . . .’, and contents include John Randall, The Maidens Welcome, The False Knights Tradegy, Loves Riddles, Banks of Ivory, etc. There is an additional poem, Round Oak, in pencil and several of the blank pages at the end contain traces of pencil writing which has been erased. This is No. 98 in the Peterborough Centenary Catalogue." Recordings of songs and tunes collected by Clare in chronological order: George Deacon, Dream Not of Love: 17 Songs from John Clare, album, 2002 Decent Scrapers, The John Clare Project: music from the John Clare manuscripts, album, 2015 Becky Dellow plays numerous tunes collected by Clare in: Becky Dellow & Adam Horovitz, The Thunder Mutters, podcast (episodes 1, 3, 5, 7, 9-13, 15-17), 2020-2021 Musical settings of Clare's poems in chronological order: Benjamin Britten, The Evening Primrose, song, from Five Flower Songs, choral composition for SATB, 1950 Malcolm Arnold, John Clare Cantata, for SATB and piano duet, 1955 Trevor Hold, Three Songs of the Countryside, for 2 equal voices and piano to poems by ‘BB’, John Clare and the composer, 1962 Trevor Hold, For John Clare, for tenor and instrumental ensemble, 1964 Richard Rodney Bennett, The Insect World & Clock-a-clay, from The Insect World, song cycle for unison voices and piano, 1966 Richard Rodney Bennett, The Bird's Lament