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Copies of letters and questionnaires from Miller to Vance Randolph and letters from Randolph pertaining to Ozark folklore and place names

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Correspondence, literary manuscripts and notes, clippings, published journals and reprinted articles, and other materials pertaining principally to Vance Randolph's research and publication in Ozark Mountain folk culture and to his personal relations with friends Walter Church (i.e., Ralph Church) and Frances Nation Church Lemon. Correspondents include Fred High, Helen Keller, Otto Ernest Rayburn, and Mary Stith.

Scope and Content Note Typed and signed letters, dated July 29, 1935, August 10, 1935, and July 2, 1947, from the folklorist Vance Randolph to Marion Nelson Waldrip, Arkansas-born clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who was pastor of churches in Cape Girardeau, Mo. (1931-33), Lexington, Ky. (1933-35), Covington, Ky. (1935-37), and Kansas City, Mo. (1940-1947). Letters relate to Randolph's research for, writing of, and publication of his Ozark Mountain Folks (circa...

Scope and Content Note The core of the collection consists of 8 linear feet (442 reels) of tape-recorded sound captured by field workers of the University Folklore Research Project, 1949-1965, under the direction of Mary Celestia Parler Randolph. While most of the 137,400 tape-feet of recorded sound preserves Arkansas and/or Ozark folk-songs sung by the indigenous folk of the area and recorded "live" in their native locales, a few of the reels also record instrumental music performed without vocal...