Newfoundland and Executorship
Sharp died in 1924, but just beforehand, he had expressed a wish to search for songs in Newfoundland. His theory predicted that the emigrants from Scotland and England would have brought folk songs with them. They would still be found there, if anyone cared to look. Karpeles took up the challenge, and went there alone in 1929 and 1930, In 1934 "Folk Songs from Newfoundland" was published, possibly her greatest achievement. She became Sharp's legal executor, and fought legal battles on behalf of his estate. As Georgina Boyes notes in her book The Imagined Village, there is a certain irony in placing any kind of copyright on folk songs which were given freely by people.
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