The Baltimore Collection

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Will Fitzgerald

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May 27, 2025, 8:08:12 AMMay 27
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Does anyone know of a scanned edition of “The Baltimore Collection”?

What can people tell me about it?

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Robert Vaughn

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May 27, 2025, 8:56:42 AMMay 27
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There is a Baltimore Collection of Church Music by R. Shaw on U of Wisconsin site. Is that the one you are looking for?


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For ask now of the days that are past...
Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.


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Wade Kotter

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May 27, 2025, 9:50:27 AMMay 27
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Will, perhaps you are talking about the following Methodist camp meeting songster, first published in Baltimore in 1801, which became widely known as "the Baltimore Collection."

Hymns and spiritual songs, for the use of Christians : including a number never before published. (1801). Baltimore: Printed M'Crea & Barnhill.

I believe the 1801 edition is included in the Early American Imprints database, which I know some people have access to through their library. It went through several editions. As far as I can find, there is no open access scan of this collection available online.

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Dr. Wade Kotter
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Independent Hymnologist and Unrestrained Loud Treble
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Wade Kotter

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May 27, 2025, 10:32:14 AMMay 27
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One more Baltimore Collection... from 1819

https://archive.org/details/baltimor00asso

Wade

Dr. Wade Kotter
Retired Librarian
Independent Hymnologist and Unrestrained Loud Treble
South Ogden, UT
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Will Fitzgerald

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May 27, 2025, 6:48:27 PMMay 27
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I think it is the (1801, 1802, 1803) editions of a hymnbook called Hymns and spiritual songs, for the use of Christians. Thank you. 

Richard Hulan

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May 27, 2025, 9:38:48 PMMay 27
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I have some of the editions of the "Baltimore Collection" that's just a word book (no tunes).  Including 1802.  It changed a bit, every edition (books weren't stereotyped, that early).  And that one interacted with folks in other places (mostly Methodist Conferences), notably including Richard Allen's group in Philadelphia, that became the Mother Bethel AME church.  I believe citations one sees, in shape note books and elsewhere, refer to the hymn text (only) -- and most of them date from a good bit earlier than the 1832 music book compiled by R. Shaw.  I'm not familiar with the 1819 book Wade has mentioned.  The original Hymns and spiritual songs, for the use of Christians also was printed elsewhere, not just Baltimore -- but that's where it started.  Some copies may have said Balto Coll on the backstrip; it's not wide enough for much more.

Dick Hulan

Will Fitzgerald

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May 30, 2025, 9:51:40 PMMay 30
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Thank you, Dick!
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