Elizabeth Bristol Greenleaf

Elizabeth Bristol Greenleaf (1895-1980) was an American collector of folk songs.

In 1920 she volunteered to teach for the Grenfell Mission summer school at Sally's Cove, near Bonne Bay on the west coast of Newfoundland.

[2] They made an extensive collection of folksongs and tunes, published in 1933 by Harvard University Press as Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland.

The book, reprinted in 1968, remains a definitive source of the songs of Newfoundland.

[2] She is buried with her husband, William Eben Greenleaf (1890-1959), in Ledyard Center Cemetery.