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 unclassified folkways, songs, place names, and local histories, collected mostly by Roberts' students.

Box 20

1. Folklore Collections
2. Folklore Collections
3. Folklore Collections
4. Folklore Collections
5. Folklore Collections
6. Folklore Collections
7. Folklore Collections
   

This series includes singing and rhymed games, parlor games, mixers, and games that require equipment.

Box 21

1. Games
2. Game Rhymes
3. Game Rhymes
4. Game Rhymes
5. Parlor Games and Mixers
6. Parlor Games and Mixers
7. Plays and Dances
8. Requiring Equipment
9. Requiring Equipment
10. Singing
11. Singing
12. Singing
13. Singing Games

Box 22

1. Games without music
2. Games without music
3. Games without music
4. Games without music

This series contains biographical information and correspondence relating to regional authors, such as Lillie Chaffin, Marietta Moore, Henry P. Scalf, and Jesse Stuart.

Box 22 (cont.)

5. Pike County Writers
6. Bibliographies: Fiction, Folklore, etc.
7. Bibliographies: Fiction, Folklore, etc.
8. Biographical Information - Boston, Dr. A.V.
9. Boyle, Kay
10. Brandon, Kit (Her Choices in Appalachian Literature)

Box 23

1. Chaffin, Lillie D.
2. Cohen, William Howard
3. Gordon, Caroline - Short Stories
4. Histories of Individuals
5. Don Meadows Poetry
6. Henry P. Scalf - Big Sandy and Kentucky History
7. Proverbial Material in Jesse Stuart's Writings (Student Paper)
8. Wilgus, D.K.
9. William, Cratis
10. Still, James - Biographical
11. Stuart, Jesse - Biographical

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