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Series 1: Manuscript Materials (continued)
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Folksong letters. Folder 1 of 3. 1927-40. (continued)
Contains correspondence to and from Vance Randolph dealing with his experiences collecting folksongs in the Ozarks. Correspondents include: Louise Pound, Franz Boas, Harvard University Press, George Lyman Kittredge, Dororthy Scarborough, "The Twelve Apostles," and "The Mermaid."
BOX 4 FOLDER 55 Folksong letters. Folder 2 of 3. 1941-42 (June).
Correspondents include: The Library of Congress, Alan Lomax, Edward Water, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Thomas Benton, John Stilley, John Robert Moore (re. the integrity of Child 218), and the Music Library Association.
BOX 5 FOLDER 56 Folksong letters. Folder 3 of 3. 1942 (August)-57.
Correspondents includs: The Library of Congress, B.A. Botkin, Wayland D. Hand, Mildred McMullen Green, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Evelyn K. Wells.
BOX 5 FOLDER 57 Folksong: "Songs Collected in the Ozark Mountains."
Contains a list of folksongs compiled by Vance Randolph.
BOX 5 FOLDER 58 Fox hunting. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and typed and handwritten notes.
BOX 5 FOLDER 59 Fox hunting. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings.
BOX 5 FOLDER 60 Connie Franklin.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, dealing the alleged murder of Connie Franklin.
BOX 5 FOLDER 61 Girard Airship.
Contains a newspaper clipping dealing with the first airplane factory and flying school in Kansas.
BOX 5 FOLDER 62 Gone Are the Days.
Contains one copy of Gone Are the Days: A Book of Boyhood Memories , written by L.J. Hedgecock.
BOX 5 FOLDER 63 "A Green Fork Turns to Water."
Contains a newspaper clipping entitled "A Green Fork Turns to Water," which deals with water witches.
BOX 5 FOLDER 64 Groundhog.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, dealing with groundhogs and woodchucks.
BOX 5 FOLDER 65 Guns and gunplay.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and correspondence.
BOX 5 FOLDER 66 Louis Hanecke.
Contains typed and handwritten notes dealing with Louis Hanecke, owner of the Allred Hotel in Carroll County.
BOX 5 FOLDER 67 The healing waters.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, dealing with mineral water and spring water in the Ozarks.
BOX 5 FOLDER 68 Hidden treasure. Folder 1 of 3.
Contains correspondence, Exciting Adventures Along the Indian Frontier by W.R. Draper, and typed and handwritten notes.
BOX 5 FOLDER 69 Hidden treasure. Folder 2 of 3.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes.
BOX 5 FOLDER 70 Hidden treasure. Folder 3 of 3.
Contains newspaper clippings.
BOX 6 FOLDER 71 Hog calling.
Contains two typewritten pages of notes.
BOX 6 FOLDER 72 Hollywood.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings dealing with Hollywood's treatment of writers.
BOX 6 FOLDER 73 Introduction.
Contains a typescript of a title page and notes for the preface of Ozark Folklore: Selected Papers of Vance Randolph, arranged and edited by Mary Celestia Parler.
BOX 6 FOLDER 74 Jacob's Cavern. Folder 1 of 3.
Contains manuscript articles by Vance Randolph and Vernon C. Allison and photographs of Jacob's Cavern, Missouri.
BOX 6 FOLDER 75 Jacob's Cavern. Folder 2 of 3.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, a drawing, and correspondence dealing with Jacob's Cavern and the history of elephants.
BOX 6 FOLDER 76 Jacob's Cavern. Folder 3 of 3.
Contains journal articles about Jacob's Cavern.
BOX 6 FOLDER 77 Jacob's Cavern: Bone Correspondence.
Contains letters about the decorated bone found in Jacob's Cavern and the resulting controversy.
BOX 6 FOLDER 78 Joke book letters. Contains correspondence to and from Vance Randolph related to Randolph's book Hot Springs and Hell.
Correspondents include: Robert Yoder, Woman's Day, Richard Dorson, Columbia University Press, Herbert Halpert, Kenneth Goldstein (Folklore Associates), Carl Withers, and Gershon Legman.
BOX 6 FOLDER 79 Sam Leath.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes about Sam Leath, an Ozarks collector and explorer.
BOX 6 FOLDER 80 Lecture notes taken by Vance Randolph (Photocopy).
Contains the photocopy of a notebook with Vance Randolph's handwritten notes on G. Stanley Hall's 1914-15 lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, on "The Psychology of Christianity."
BOX 6 FOLDER 81 Lecture notes taken by Vance Randolph (Original).
Contains the original notebook photocopied in Folder 80.
BOX 6 FOLDER 82 Locusts from the city.
Contains newspaper clippings and handwritten notes dealing with the impact of tourists from the city on the Ozarks.
BOX 6 FOLDER 83 Walter Clare Martin.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, dealing with the bow hunter Walter Clare Martin.
BOX 7 FOLDER 84 The Master's desk.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed notes dealing with the poet Edgar Lee Masters.
BOX 7 FOLDER 85 Medicine show.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed notes dealing with medicine shows.
BOX 7 FOLDER 86 The Menace.
Contains newspaper clippings and reprints of journal articles, and typed notes dealing with the Aurora, Missouri, newspaper The Menace.
BOX 7 FOLDER 87 The Mollyjoggers.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed notes dealing with fraternal organizations.
BOX 7 FOLDER 88 Moonshine liquor.
Contains a newspaper clipping, and a handwritten note dealing with moonshiners.
BOX 7 FOLDER 89 Tom P. Morgan. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and handwritten and typed notes, dealing with humorist and newspaper columnist Tom P. Morgan.
BOX 7 FOLDER 90 Tom P. Morgan. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains typed notes.
BOX 7 FOLDER 91 Mysterious lights.
Contains a typescript about the sightings of unexplained lights in northeastern Oklahoma.
BOX 7 FOLDER 92 Names and nicknames. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, dealing with distinctive names and nicknames of the Ozarks.
BOX 7 FOLDER 93 Names and nicknames. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains index cards.
BOX 7 FOLDER 94 "The Nobility of the Mountaineer."
Contains typed notes about the character and nature of people living in the rural Ozarks.
BOX 7 FOLDER 95 Nonsense speeches.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, dealing with nonsense speeches and illiterate elocutionists.
BOX 7 FOLDER 96 Old customs. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains typed and handwritten notes and typescripts dealing with traditional Ozark social customs.
BOX 7 FOLDER 97 Old customs. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings, articles, and correspondence.
BOX 7 FOLDER 98 Old Man Burgess.
Contains correspondence and a handwritten note dealing with the faith healer J.W. Burgess.
BOX 8 FOLDER 99 Outlawry.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and brochure about the Eureka Springs 1922 bank robbery and famous male and female outlaws.
BOX 8 FOLDER 100 Ozark eccentrics.
Contains newspaper clippings, brochure, and typed and handwritten notes about interesting Americans and Ozark eccentrics.
BOX 8 FOLDER 101 Ozark life.
Contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and typed and handwritten notes about returning to the land. Also includes two typescripts, "Christmas in the Ozarks" and "The Lure of the Ozarks."
BOX 8 FOLDER 102 "Ozarks, Where Are You?" Folder 1 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings and typed and handwritten notes concerning the size of the Ozarks.
BOX 8 FOLDER 103 "Ozarks, Where Are You?" Folder 2 of 2.
Contains correspondence and a typescript for an article entitled "Ozarks, Where Are You?"
BOX 8 FOLDER 104 Place names. Folder 1 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and correspondence. The folder is subdivided into the following subjects: A-L; M-Z; Correspondence. Guide for Students; History and Origin; Listing; Mountains.
BOX 8 FOLDER 105 Place names. Folder 2 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes. Includes: Guide for Students; History and Origin.
BOX 8 FOLDER 106 Place names. Folder 3 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes. Included: Listing; Pronunciation; Mountains; Waterways.
BOX 8 FOLDER 107 Place names. Folder 4 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and correspondence. Includes: Missouri Barry County; Missouri MacDonald County (photocopy).
BOX 8 FOLDER 108 Place names. Folder 5 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes. Includes: Missouri MacDonald County (original).
BOX 8 FOLDER 109 Place names. Folder 6 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and correspondence. Includes notes and index cards.
BOX 8 FOLDER 110 Politics.
Contains newspaper clippings about politics.
BOX 9 FOLDER 111 Randolph, Vance. Biographical Material.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings dealing with the life and work of Vance Randolph.
BOX 9 FOLDER 112 Randolph, Vance. Book Reviews. Folder 1 of 4.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings and correspondence dealing with reviews of Vance Randolph's books. Includes: Correspondence; The Devil's Pretty Daughter.
BOX 9 FOLDER 113 Randolph, Vance. Book Reviews. Folder 2 of 4.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings and correspondence dealing with reviews of Vance Randolph's books. Includes: Down in the Holler; Hot Springs and Hell; Lists; Ozark Folksongs.
BOX 9 FOLDER 114 Randolph, Vance. Book reviews. Folder 3 of 4.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings and correspondence dealing with reviews of Vance Randolph's books. Includes: Ozark Superstitions; Sticks in the Knapsack; The Talking Turtle.
BOX 9 FOLDER 115 Randolph, Vance. Book Reviews. Folder 4 of 4.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings and correspondence dealing with reviews of Vance Randolph's books. Includes: The Talking Turtle; We Always Lie to Strangers; Who Blowed Up the Church House?
BOX 9 FOLDER 116 Randolph, Vance. Scrapbook pages. Folder 1 of 8. Photocopy A.
BOX 9 FOLDER 117 Randolph, Vance. Scrapbook pages. Folder 2 of 8. Original A.
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