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

Box 15

1. Animals
2. Ballad Collection
3. Ballad-like Pieces
4. Big Sandy River
5. Child
6. Child
7. Child
8. Child
9. Child
10. Child
11. Child

Box 16

1. Child
2. Child
3. Children
4. Courtship
5. Cowboy
6. Cowboys and Pioneers
7. Cowboys and Pioneers
8. Cowboys and Pioneers
9. Crime
10. Criminals
11. Criminals and Outlaws
12. Criminals and Outlaws
13. Criminals and Outlaws
14. Death
15. Drinking
16. Faithful Lovers

Box 17

1. Family Opposition to Lovers
2. Feuds
3. Gambling
4. Going to Town
5. Historical
6. Holiday
7. Hunting
8. Humorous
9. Humorous and Miscellaneous
10. Lost Love
11. Love
12. Lover's Disguises and Tricks
13. Lumberjacks
14. Marriage
15. Miners and Mining
16. Moonshine
17. Murder
18. Murder
19. Murder
20. Murder
21. Murder of Lovers

Box 18

1. Negroes
2. Negroes
3. Nonsense
4. Ballads - Miscellaneous
5. Railroads/Trains
6. Sailors
7. Sailors and the Sea
8. Tragedies and Disasters
9. Tragedies and Disasters
10. Tragic Romances
11. Tragedy

Box 19

1. Unfaithful Lovers
2. Unfaithful Lovers
3. Unfaithful Lovers
4. Various Topics
5. Various Topics
6. Various Topics
7. War

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