Accession Number: 57
The Leonard Ward Roberts Collection
Papers and Sound Recordings 1949-1983
27.8 Linear Feet
44 Cassette Tapes
99 Reel Tapes
Online Catalog Record (BANC)

Overview & Series Description
History
Series I - Biographical Information
Series II - Writings
Series III - Publications Edited by Leonard Roberts
Series IV - General Correspondence
Series V - Subject Files
Series VI - Ballad and Song Texts
Series VII - Student Folklore Collections
Series VIII - Games
Series IX - Regional Writers
Series X - Community Histories
Series XI - Folklore
Series XII - Folktales
Series XIII - Folksong Texts
Series XIV - Folkways
Series XV - Genealogy
Series XVI - Interviews
Series XVII - Indians
Series XVIII - Teaching Aids
Series XIX - Audio Tapes and Transcripts
Series XX - Card Files

This series consists of materials relating to the literary magazines, Laurel Review (1963-69), Twigs (1971-79), and Cumberlands (1979-1983), that Roberts published while at West Virginia Wesleyan College and Pikeville College. It mainly includes correspondence with authors, writings submitted for publication, and business records.

Box 6 (Cont.)

3. Twigs / Cumberlands - Contributors - Biographical
4. Twigs / Cumberlands - Correspondence
5. Twigs / Cumberlands - Correspondence
6. Twigs / Cumberlands - Correspondence
7. Twigs / Cumberlands - Correspondence
8. Twigs / Cumberlands - Correspondence
9. Twigs first issue proofs
10. Twigs Submitted Poetry
11. Twigs Submitted Short Stories
12. Twigs Submitted Short Stories
13. Twigs Volume 2 Typescript
14. Twigs Volume 4 Typescript
15. Twigs Volume 4 Typescript
16. Twigs Volume 5 Typescript

Box 7

1. Twigs Volume 5 Typescript
2. Twigs Volume 5 Submitted Poetry
3. Twigs Volume 8 No. 2
4. Twigs Volume 12 No. 1 Fall 1973
5. Twigs Volume 12 No. 1 Fall 1973
6. Twigs Volume 11
7. Twigs Volume 12 Fall 1975 ?
8. Twigs Volume 12 No. 2
9. Twigs Volume 13 Fall 1976
10. Twigs Volume 13 Poetry
11. Twigs Volume 13 No. 2 1977
12. Twigs / Cumberlands - Copyright Documents
13. Twigs / Cumberlands - Contributors' Correspondence
14. Twigs / Cumberlands - Contributors' Correspondence

Box 8

1. Cumberlands - Reader Comments
2. Cumberlands - Fall-Winter 1980 Camera Copy
3. Cumberlands - Graphics and Photos
4. Cumberlands - Submitted Poetry
5. Cumberlands - Volume 14 Typescript
6. Cumberlands - Volume 15 Typescript
7. Cumberlands - Volume 15 Typescript
8. Cumberlands - Volume 15 No. 3 - Volume 16 No. 1 Fall 1978 Draft
9. Cumberlands - Volume 16 No. 2
10. Cumberlands - Volume 17 No. 1 Correspondence
11. Cumberlands - Volume 19 No. 1 Typescript, photos, graphics
12. Cumberlands - Volume 19 No. 2 Draft - Correspondence

Box 9

1. Cumberlands - (6 issues 1976-82) Twigs (3 issues Fall & Spring 1976, Kentucky Bicentennial Issue)
2. Cumberlands - Volume 19 No. 2 Submitted Writing, Correspondence
3. Cumberlands - Submitted Writing Volume 19 No. 2
4. Cumberlands - Submitted Poetry Fall 1977, Correspondence
5. Cumberlands - Submitted Poetry Spring 1978
6. Cumberlands - Submitted Poetry Fall 1978
7. Cumberlands - Submitted Poetry Spring 1979
8. Cumberlands - Submitted Writing Spring 1979
9. Cumberlands - Submitted Poetry Spring 1979
10. Cumberlands - Winter 1979
11. Cumberlands - Fall-Winter 1981 Submitted Writing, Photos
12. Cumberlands - 1981 Spring / Summer Poetry

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