Scope and Content Note
The collection includes correspondence, research materials, book contracts, and typescripts for several of author and folklorist Duncan Emrich's published and unpublished books and articles on American folklore. There are some personal papers, including Emrich's college transcripts; course materials from classes that Emrich taught at the University of Maryland; and documents pertaining to Emrich's service with the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force during World War II, and the Department of State, United States Information Agency during the 1960s. Book projects include American Folk Poetry; song lyrics prepared for An Anthology of American Folk Songs, with Charles Seeger; the Lucius Beebe Reader, with Charles Clegg; a Child's Book of Folklore, by Marion V. Emrich and George Korson; Duncan Emrich's poetry and articles about the American West; and unpublished works on animal lore, death, and other topics. The collection includes a bibliography of Emrich's writings, and a Bibliography of American Folksong in the English Language compiled by Joseph C. Hickerson; galleys, photographs of Duncan Emrich, fan mail from children, and other materials. Correspondents include Roger D. Abrahams, Horace Beck, Jan Brunvand, Ellsworth Bunker, Kenneth Clark, Frank Dobie, Richard M. Dorson, Lydia Fish, Kenneth S. Goldstein, Percy Grainger, Wayland D. Hand, Harry M. Hyatt, Louis C. Jones, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Sarah Gertrude Knott, Maud Gentry Long, Archibald MacLeish, Lynwood Montell, Vance Randolph, Barre Toelken, Francis Lee Utley, and Frank Warner, among others.