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Dorson mss., 1925-1981

Papers, 1925-1981, of Richard Mercer Dorson at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

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Summary Information

Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly

Creator:
Dorson, Richard Mercer, 1916-1981

Title:
Dorson mss.,1925-1981

Collection No.
LMC 2423

Extent:
ca. 65,000 items

Materials are in English

Abstract:
Consists of the papers of Richard Mercer Dorson, 1916-1981, Indiana University professor and internationally renowned folklorist. The correspondence section, consisting of approximately 14,500 items arranged chronologically, documents Dorson's determination to turn the American Folklore Society and American folklore studies away from amateurism toward rigorous scholarship. The correspondence also shows Dorson's wide network of national and international relationships established with numerous scholars over the years. Writings in the collection are divided into those by Dorson and those by other folklorists, historians, and colleagues. Fieldwork and research materials in the collection include notes, transcriptions, and field tapes. Dorson's Indiana University related files include materials for the Folklore Institute, the Folklore Archives, the Archives of Traditional Music, the History Department, and various university committees. Also here are papers of folklore and history students, dissertation materials, and Dorson's class notes.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Folklorist. Began his teaching career as an instructor of history at Harvard in 1943. He moved to Michigan State University in 1944 where he stayed until 1957 when he accepted a position at Indiana University as professor of history and folklore as well as that of Chairman of the Committee on Folklore. When the Indiana University Folklore Institute was established in 1963, Dorson became its first director, and in 1978 he was named the first Chairman of the Folklore Department.

Dorson was born in New York City, studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, 1929-1933, earned his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, and began his teaching career as an instructor of history at Harvard in 1943. He moved to Michigan State University in 1944 where he stayed until 1957 when he accepted a position at Indiana University as professor of history and folklore as well as that of Chairman of the Committee on Folklore. When the Indiana University Folklore Institute was established in 1963, Dorson became its first director, and in 1978 he was named the first Chairman of the Folklore Department. Dorson also held a variety of visiting professorships, including a year at the University of Tokyo as a Fulbright Visiting Professor in American Studies (1956), a semester at the University of California, Berkeley (1968), and a semester at the University of Pennsylvania (1980).

A tireless scholar and researcher, Dorson received many awards and honors over the years, beginning with the Harvard Sheldon Traveling Fellowship for 1942-1943. Other awards included a Library of Congress Fellowship in History of American Civilization, 1946; three Guggenheim Fellowships, 1949, 1964, and 1971; fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies in 1952 and 1961; and a year as fellow at the National Humanities Center's Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, 1978-1979. His many grants from a variety of foundations and institutions include the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution, and the U.S. Department of Justice.

He was an active member of professional societies and organizations, serving as Editor of the American Folklore Society's Journal of American Folklore , 1957-1962, as president of the Society, 1966-1968, and as the Society's delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies, 1969-1973. Dorson also served terms as vice president of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research from 1959 to 1964 and of the International Society of Ethnology and Folklore, 1964-1971. In 1973 he was elected to honorary membership of the English Folklore Society on whose Council he had been serving since 1969. In 1981 Dorson retired as Chairman of the Folklore Department but remained Director of the Folklore Institute and professor of folklore and history until his death a few months later.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Gift. 1977, 1978, 1982, 1984
Usage Restrictions
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.

Preferred Citation
[Item] Dorson mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of the papers of Richard Mercer Dorson, 1916-1981, Indiana University professor and internationally renowned folklorist. The correspondence section, consisting of approximately 14,500 items arranged chronologically, documents Dorson's determination to turn the American Folklore Society and American folklore studies away from amateurism toward rigorous scholarship. The correspondence also shows Dorson's wide network of national and international relationships established with numerous scholars over the years. Writings in the collection are divided into those by Dorson and those by other folklorists, historians, and colleagues. Fieldwork and research materials in the collection include notes, transcriptions, and field tapes. Dorson's Indiana University related files include materials for the Folklore Institute, the Folklore Archives, the Archives of Traditional Music, the History Department, and various university committees. Also here are papers of folklore and history students, dissertation materials, and Dorson's class notes.

This collection of his papers contains the following categories of material: correspondence, writings, research and fieldwork, University materials, and miscellaneous personal and professional files.

The correspondence section, consisting of approximately 14,500 items arranged chronologically, documents Dorson's determination to turn the American Folklore Society and American folklore studies away from amateurism toward rigorous scholarship. He set standards for folklore scholarship on all levels--research, documentation, writing, and the material to be studied. The correspondence also shows Dorson's wide network of national and international contacts, including personal relationships established with numerous scholars over the years.

Writings in the collection are divided into those by Dorson and those by other folklorists, historians, and colleagues. Materials for the following books by Dorson are represented here: African Folklore (1972), America Begins (1950), America in Legend (1973), America Rebels (1953), American Folklore (1959), American Folklore and the Historian (1971), American Negro Folktales (1967), Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers (1952), The British Folklorists: A History (1968), Buying the Wind (1964), Davy Crockett, American Comic Legend (1939), Folk Legends of Japan (1961), Folklore and Fakelore (1976), Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction (1972), Folklore and Traditional History (1973), Folklore in the Modern World (1974), Folklore Research Around the World: A North American Point of View (1961), Folklore: Selected Essays (1972), Folktales Told Around the World (1975), Handbook of American Folklore (1983), Jonathan Draws the Long Bow (1946), Land of the Millrats (1981), Man and Beast in American Comic Legend (1982), Negro Folktales in Michigan (1956), Negro Tales from Pine Bluff, Arkansas and Calvin, Michigan (1958), Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists (1968), and Studies in Japanese Folklore (1963).

He edited and wrote the foreword to all volumes of the Folktales of the World Series, and both drafts and/or final manuscript copy of many of these volumes are in the collection.

The type of material present for Dorson's publications varies but most often includes research materials, drafts of manuscripts, galleys and page proofs, corrected proofs, book production materials, publicity and reviews. There are also materials for about ten more books which he was considering publishing.

Dorson also wrote approximately 200 articles, most of which are represented in the collection in various phases of development from notes to final printed item. He prepared numerous reviews of printed works and frequently provided critical evaluations of items that had been submitted for publication, and many of these are present or are represented in these files. Papers and/or notes for papers presented at conference and seminars, as well as materials relating to several journals (especially the Journal of the Folklore Institute), and series (particularly the Indiana University Folklore Institute Monographs Series), which he edited are also here.

Fieldwork and research materials in the collection include notes, transcriptions, and field tapes from Dorson's work in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the 1940's; in Calvin, Michigan and Pine Bluff, Arkansas in the early 1950's; in Jonesport, Maine, 1956; and in northern Indiana, 1968 and mid 1970's. These files highlight areas of special interest to Dorson--early American heroes; Black, immigrant, occupational (lumberjacks, cowboys, miners, railwaymen, steelworkers), and urban lore; as well as lore of the youth and counter cultures of the 1960's.

Dorson's Indiana University related files include materials for the Folklore Department, the Folklore Institute, the Folklore Archives, the Archives of Traditional Music, the History Department, and various University committees. Also here are papers of folklore and history students, dissertation materials, and Dorson's class notes.

The remaining files in the collection are a miscellany of materials pertinent to Dorson's career, including his testimony in 1970 Senate hearings for an American Folklife Bill. The many societies and councils of which Dorson was a member and the many conferences which he attended are also represented. Dorson's personal files, in addition to regularly updated vitae, include materials on grants and fellowships. Other files contain materials on a film about the Northeast Sea Community, photographs, and printed items. Amongst the last are journals, newsletters, and clippings on Dorson, on the Folklore Institute and Department, and on folklore in general.

Arrangement/Organization

Organized into the following series: I. Correspondence. II. Writings. III. Research and fieldwork. IV. University materials. V. Miscellaneous personal and professional files. VI. Additions.

Additional Physical Form Available

Some audio materials have been reformatted for use in the repository only.

  • Indexing Terms

  • The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT, the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.

    • Names
    • Indiana University Bloomington. Folklore Institute.
    • Indiana University --Faculty --Archives.
    • Indiana University --Faculty --Correspondence.
    • Indiana University. Folklore Institute.
    • Dorson, Richard Mercer, 1916- --Correspondence.

Related Material

Correspondence between Richard Dorson and Stith Thompson can be found in the Thompson, S. mss.

Series: I. Correspondence, 1925-1981 

This collection is indexed at the item level in the Manuscripts Index located in the Lilly Library. The correspondence is arranged chronologically. Consult the Manuscripts Index in the Library for dates of letters of individual correspondents.

Among the correspondents in the collection are:
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  • Abrahams, Roger David
  • Adams, Robert Jesse
  • Allen, Thomas Benton
  • Andrzejewski, Bogumił Witalis
  • Arguedas, José Maria
  • Armistead, Samuel Gordon
  • Armstrong, Robert Plant
  • Arnott, David Whitehorn
  • Arpad, Joseph John
  • Ashton, John William
  • Austerlitz, Robert Paul
  • Basgöz, Ilhan
  • Babalola, Adeboye
  • Babcock, Barbara Anne
  • Bachrach, Arthur Julian
  • Balys, Jonas
  • Barber, Cesar Lombardi
  • Barua, Birinchi Kumar
  • Bascom, William Russell
  • Baughman, Ernest Warren
  • Bauman, Richard
  • Bayard, Samuel Preston
  • Beam, C. Richard
  • Beatie, Bruce Alan
  • Beck, Horace Palmer
  • Beeson, Lewis
  • Beitl, Klaus
  • Ben-Ami, Issachar
  • Ben-Amos, Dan
  • Berry, Jack
  • Berwick, Keith Bennet
  • Bianco, Carla DiFazio
  • Biebuyck, Daniel Prosper
  • Blacker, Carmen Elizabeth
  • Blair, Walter
  • Blegen, Theodore Christian
  • Bloom, John Porter
  • Blumenthal, Joseph
  • Boatright, Mody Coggin
  • Boggs, Ralph Steele
  • Boorstin, Daniel Joseph
  • Boorstin, Ruth Carolyn (Frankel)
  • Botkin, Benjamin Albert
  • Bowen, Carroll G.
  • Braddy, Haldeen
  • Braden, Samuel Edward
  • Brady, George Keyports
  • Brandon, Elizabeth (Kaplan)
  • Brednich, Rolf Wilhelm
  • Briggs, Katharine Mary
  • Bringham, Clarence Saunders
  • Brown, Henry Daniels
  • Browne, Ray Broadus
  • Brunvand, Jan Harold
  • Burkhardt, Frederick Henry
  • Byington, Robert Harold
  • Byrnes, Robert Francis
  • Campbell, Marie Alice (Umbach)
  • Carey, George Gibson
  • Carpenter, Inta (Gale)
  • Carrière, Joseph Médard
  • Carter, Byrum Earl
  • Carvalho-Neto, Paulo de
  • Catton, Bruce
  • Charters, Werrett Wallace
  • Cheney, Thomas E.
  • Christiansen, Reidar Thoralf
  • Clark, Thomas Dionysius
  • Clarke, Kenneth Wendell
  • Claudel, Calvin André
  • Coffin, Tristram Potter
  • Cohen, Hennig
  • Collins, Camilla Anne
  • Collins, Carvel Emerson
  • Collins, Ralph Leonard
  • Conroy, Jack
  • Cortazar, Augusto Raúl
  • Creighton, Helen
  • Crowley, Daniel John
  • Curtis, Richard Bertram
  • Dégh, Linda
  • Danielson, Larry William
  • Rothstein, Manuel Dannemann
  • Davison, Levette Jay
  • de Caro, Francis A.
  • Deva, Indra
  • Dömötör, Tekla
  • Dundes, Alan
  • Dupree, Louis Benjamin
  • Eberhard, Wolfram
  • Eder, Matthias
  • Fred Russell Eggan
  • Emerson, William Richard
  • Emrich, Duncan Black Macdonald
  • Evans, Emyr Estyn
  • Evans, Luther Harris
  • Fee, Walter Ray
  • Fenton, William Nelson
  • Fernandez, James William
  • Farrell, Robert Hugh
  • Ferris, William Reyonalds
  • Fife, Austin Edwin
  • Fikry, Mona
  • Fitchen, Allen Nelson
  • Flanagan, John Theodore
  • Fraenkel, A. Peter
  • Franklin, Colin E.
  • Friedman, Albert Barron
  • Fry, Gladys Marie
  • Fuld, James Jeffrey
  • Gallman, John Gerry
  • Gargi, Balwant
  • Garraty, John Arthur
  • Gavazzi, Milovan
  • Georges, Robert A.
  • Gerow, Bert Alfred
  • Gillmor, Frances
  • Glassie, Henry Haywood
  • Gohdes, Clarence Louis Frank
  • Goldstein, Kenneth S.
  • Goswami, Praphulladatta
  • Green, Rayna Diane
  • Greenway, John
  • Greverus, Ina-Maria
  • Griffin, William James
  • Gucker, Frank Thomson
  • Halpert, Herbert
  • Hand, Wayland Debs
  • Haque, Abu Saeed Zahurul
  • Haring, Lee
  • Hassell, James Woodrow
  • Haywood, Charles
  • Heilfurth, Gerhard
  • Henderson, Hamish
  • Henningsen, Gustav
  • Herskovits, Melville Jean
  • Herzog, George
  • Hines, Donald Merrill
  • Ho, Ting-jui
  • Hoffman, Daniel Gerard
  • Holbek, Bengt
  • Holbrook, Stewart Hall
  • Hole, Christina (Stanley)
  • Hori, Ichiro
  • Hsu, Francis Lang-Kwang
  • Htin Aung, U.
  • Hudson, Arthur Palmer
  • Hurreiz, Sayed Hamid Ahmed
  • Hyman, Stanley Edgar
  • Hymes, Dell Hathaway
  • Ives, Edward Dawson
  • Jackson, Bruce
  • Jackson, Kennell A.
  • Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone
  • Jacobs, Melville
  • James, Edward Topping
  • James, Thelma Gray
  • Jameson, Raymond De Loy
  • Jankovic, Ljubica S.
  • Jansen, William Hugh
  • Johnson, Aili Kolehmainen
  • Johnson, John William
  • Jones, Howard Mumford
  • Jones, Louis Clark
  • Karpeles, Maud
  • Keller, John Esten
  • Kendrick, John H.
  • Kennedy, Douglas Neil
  • Kirk, Russell Amos
  • Kirkland, Edwin Capers
  • Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara
  • Kirtley, Bacil Flemming
  • Kishibe, Shigeo
  • Klymasz, Robert Bogdan
  • Knappert, Jan
  • Knott, Sarah Gertrude
  • Köngäs Maranda, Elli Kaija
  • Korson, George Gershon
  • Koster, Donald Nelson
  • Krzyzanowski, Julian
  • Kunene, Daniel
  • Kurath, Gertrude (Prokosch)
  • Laade, Wolfgang
  • Lacourcière, Luc
  • LaPin, Deirdre Ann
  • Leach, MacEdward
  • Lee, Hector
  • Legman, Gershon
  • Leibovici, Marcel
  • Liebenow, J. Gus
  • Lindfors, Bernth O.
  • Lindgren, Ethel John
  • List, George Harold
  • Lomax, Alan
  • Loomis, Charles Grant
  • Luomala, Katharine
  • Lurie, Edward
  • Mabuchi, Toichi
  • McAllester, David Park
  • McClellan, Edwin
  • McCulloh, Judith Marie (Binkele)
  • McDavid, Raven Ioor
  • McDermott, John Francis
  • McDonald, Donald Archie
  • McGuire, Paula
  • MacQueen, John
  • Mancini, Pat (McNees)
  • Manuel, E. Arsenio
  • Mason, Leonard Edward
  • Meine, Franklin Julius
  • Merriam, Alan Parkhurst
  • Merritt, Lynne Lionel
  • Messenger, John Cowan
  • Matcalf, George Joseph
  • Millar, Branford Price
  • Mintz, Jerome Richard
  • Misra, Bhabagrahi
  • Mitchner, Ann (Patterson)
  • Moe, Henry Allen
  • Mook, Maurice Allison
  • Moore, Bai Tami'a Johnson
  • Morris, Alton Chester
  • Morse, Wayne Lyman
  • Mott, Howard S.
  • Moyne, Ernest John
  • Murdock, Kenneth Ballard
  • Nkaya, Ken-ichi
  • Nettl, Bruno
  • Neumeyer, Peter Florian
  • Newall, Venetia June (Tubbs)
  • Nickerson, Bruce Edward
  • Nicolaisen, Wilhelm Fritz Hermann
  • Noss, Philip Andrew
  • Noy, Dov
  • Nye, Russel Blaine
  • O'Beirne-Ranelagh, Elaine (Lewis)
  • Ó Duilearga, Séamus
  • O'Neil, Robert Merchant
  • O'Suilleabhain, Sean
  • Oinas, Felix Johannes
  • Opie, Peter Mason
  • Oplier, Morris Edward
  • Ortutay, Gyula
  • Oster, Harry
  • Ouwehand, Cornelius
  • Overton, Douglas
  • Paredes, Américo
  • Patai, Raphael
  • Peeters, Karel Constant
  • Pentikäinen, Juha Yrjänä
  • Perry, Bernard Barenson
  • Philipson, Morris H.
  • Pinon, Rodger
  • Pop, Mihai
  • Porter, Kenneth Wiggins
  • Randall, Thomas Edwin
  • Randolph, Vance
  • Ranke, Kurt
  • Ray, Gordon Norton
  • Rayford, Julian Lee
  • Reuss, Richard A.
  • Richmond, Winthrop Edison
  • Ridenour, Harry Lee
  • Roberts, Roderick Joseph
  • Roberts, Warren Everett
  • Rodger, Ian Graham
  • Rodriges, Lucio
  • Röhrich, Lutz
  • Rosenburg, Bruce Alan
  • Rosenburg, Neil Vandraegen
  • Routledge & Kegan Paul
  • Rubin, Ruth (Rosenblatt)
  • Ryan, John William
  • Sackett, Samuel John
  • Saleh, Ahmed Rushdi
  • Sanderson, Stewart Forson
  • Saucier, Corrine L.
  • Scheub, Harold Ernest
  • Schlesinger, Arthur Meier
  • Sebeok, Thomas Albert
  • Seki, Keigo
  • Selden, Sherman Ward
  • Shugg, Rodger Wallace
  • Siefert, Marsha Sue
  • Simeone, William E.
  • Simmons, Merle Edwin
  • Sinor, Denis
  • Smith, Henry Nash
  • Solt, Leo Frank
  • Stahr, Elvis Jacob
  • Stekert, Ellen Jane
  • Stolz, Benjamin Armond
  • Sullivan, William Francis
  • Sutton, Joseph Lee
  • Szövérffy, Joseph
  • Szwed, John Francis
  • Tax, Sol
  • Taylor, Archer
  • Thompson, Harold William
  • Thompson, Katharine (Simonds)
  • Thompson, Stith
  • Tillhagen, Carl-Herman Olof
  • Tillson, Merl William
  • Toelken, Barre
  • Upadhyaya, Krishna Deva
  • Utley, Francis Lee
  • Vazsonyi, Andrew
  • Voegelin, Charles Frederick
  • Wachsmann, Klaus Philipp
  • Wallis, Charles Langworthy
  • Walton, Ivan Henry
  • Wang, Arthur Woods
  • Waugh, Butler Huggins
  • Weatherby, Meredith
  • Webb, Hilda (Eggleston)
  • Weinreich, Uriel
  • Weisinger, Herbert
  • Wells, Herman B
  • Welsch, Rodger Lee
  • Wentworth, Richard Leigh
  • Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie Brooke
  • Whiting, Bartlett Jere
  • Whitten, Norman Earl
  • Wildhaber, Robert
  • Wilgus, D.K.
  • Wilson, Edward Meryon
  • Wilson, George Macklin
  • Wilson, Thomas James
  • Winkelman, Donald Marvin
  • Wolff, Kurt
  • Woods, Barbara Allen
  • Wrigglesworth, Hazel J.
  • Yarborough, Ralph Webster
  • Yoder, Don
Box 1 1925-1951, Aug. 
Box 2 1951, Sept. - 1953, May 
Box 3 1953, June - 1957, Feb. 
Box 4 1957, Mar. - 1959, Dec. 
Box 5 1960 - 1961 
Box 6 1962 - 1964, Feb. 
Box 7 1964, Mar. - 1966, May 
Box 8 1966, June - 1968, May 
Box 9 1968, June - 1969 
Box 10 1970 - 1971, Mar. 16 
Box 11 1971, Mar. 17 - 1972, Oct. 
Box 12 1972, Nov. - 1974, July 
Box 13 1974, Aug. - 1978, Apr. 
Box 14 1978, May - 1979, June 
Box 15 1979, July - 1981;  undated 
Series: II. Writings

Arranged as follows: Writings by Dorson: Books, Articles, Reviews, Critical Evaluations, Papers Presented, Journals, Series, and Royalties, followed by Writings by Others

Subseries: Books
Box 16 African Folklore (New York: Anchor Books, 1972) 
Correspondence, contract, drafts and corrections, setting copy
Box 17
Folders 1-12
Setting copy, galleys, corrections, production materials, publicity, reviews
Folder 13 American Begins (New York: Pantheon, 1950) 

Publicity, reviews

Folders 14-21 America in Legend (New York: Pantheon, 1973) 
Correspondence, contract, research, drafts
Box 18 America in Legend (cont'd.)
Drafts, corrections, setting copy
Box 19
Folders 1-12
Galleys and corrections, production materials, illustrations, publicity, reviews
Box 95
Oversize 1
America in Legend.
Illustrations
Box 19
Folders 13-22
American Rebels (New York: Pantheon, 1953) 
Correspondence, contract, research
Box 20
Folders 1-11
Research, draft, corrections, production materials, illustrations, publicity, reviews
Folders 12-30 American Folklore (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1959) 
Research, drafts, corrections
Box 21
Folders 1-2
Bibliographical notes for revised edition, publicity, reviews
Folders 3-13 American Folklore and the Historian (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971) 

Correspondence, contracts, drafts, setting copy, galleys, proofs, corrections, production materials, publicity, reviews

Folder 14 American Humor [not published]

Contract, outline, research

Folder 15 American Legendary Heroes [not published]

Draft

Folders 16-27 American Negro Folktales (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1967) 

Correspondence, contract, description, research, drafts, galleys, publicity, reviews

Folders 28-29 Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1952) 
Research, drafts
Box 22
Folders 1-6
Drafts, corrections, production materials, illustrations, foreword to paperback edition, publicity, reviews.
Folders 7-24 The British Folklorists: A History (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1968) 
Correspondence, contract, research
Box 23 Research, drafts, corrections, corrections for galleys, production materials, errata, publicity, reviews
Box 24
Folders 1-2
Publicity, reviews
Folders 3-33 Buying the Wind (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1964) 
Correspondence, research
Box 25
Folders 1-5
Partial drafts, partial galleys, corrections, production materials, publicity, reviews
Folders 6-7 Davy Crockett, American Comic Legend (New York: Spiral Press, 1939) 

Research, production materials, publicity, reviews

Folders 8-14 The Field of American Folklore [not published]

Outlines, drafts

Folders 15-32 Folk Legends of Japan (Tokyo: C.E. Tuttle, 1961) 

Correspondence, research, drafts, proofs, production materials, publicity, reviews

Box 95
Oversize 2
Folk Legends of Japan. Research
Box 25
Folders 33-37
Folklore and Fakelore (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1976) 
Correspondence, contract, research, drafts, corrections
Box 26 Drafts, corrections, setting copy
Box 27
Folders 1-9
Proofs and corrections, production materials, publicity, reviews
Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1972) 
Folders 10-25 Correspondence, research, drafts, galleys and corrections
Box 28
Folders 1-10
Galleys and corrections, proofs, production materials, publicity, reviews
Folders 11-14 Folklore and Traditional History (The Hague: Mouton, 1973) 

Correspondence, contract, partial drafts, partial proofs, publicity, reviews

Folders 15-19 Folklore in American Life and Thought [not published]

Correspondence, outlines, drafts, articles to be included

Folders 20-29 Folklore in the Modern World (Bloomington, In.: Folklore Publication Group, 1974) 
Correspondence, drafts
Box 29
Folders 1-15
Drafts, proofs and corrections, production materials, publicity, reviews
Folders 16-32 Folklore in the United States [not published]

Correspondence, research, production materials

Folders 33-36 Folklore Research Around the World: A North American Point of View (Bloomington, In.: Indiana Univ. Press, 1961) 

Correspondence, production materials, drafts of two articles, proofs, publicity, reviews

Box 30
Folders 1-9
Folklore: Selected Essays (Bloomington, In.: Indiana Univ. Press, 1972) 

Correspondence, contract, drafts of two articles, setting copy, galleys, production materials, publicity, reviews

Folder 10 Folklore, Sex, Politics, and Religion [not published]

Notes

Folders 11-15 Folktales of the World [series]

Correspondence, production materials, miscellaneous, publicity and reviews

Folders 16-26 Folktales of Chile (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1967) 

Correspondence, research, drafts of foreword and bibliography, setting copy, galleys, corrections, production materials

Folders 27-33 Folktales of China (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1965) 
Correspondence, research, descriptive index of tales, drafts
Box 31
Folders 1-9
Drafts, galleys, production materials, publicity, reviews
Folder 10 Folktales of Egypt (Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press, 1979) 

Working bibliography

Folders 11-16 Folktales of England (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1965) 

Correspondence, research, drafts of foreword and bibliography, proofs, production materials, publicity, reviews

Folders 17-44 Folktales of France (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1968) 

Correspondence, research, partial drafts and setting copy, production materials, publicity, reviews.

Folders 45-48 Folktales of Germany (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1966) 
Correspondence, research, drafts
Box 32
Folders 1-5
Drafts, production materials, publicity, reviews
Folders 6-25 Folktales of Greece (Chicago: Univ. Of Chicago Press, 1970) 

Correspondence, research, drafts, galleys, proofs, production materials, publicity, reviews

Folders 26-38 Folktales of Hungary (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1965) 

Correspondence, partial drafts, partial proofs, production materials, publicity, reviews

Folder 39 Folktales of India [not published]

Tales

Folders 40-46 Folktales of Ireland (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1966) 

Correspondence, partial drafts and corrections, production materials, publicity, reviews

Box 33
Folders 1-3
Folktales of Israel (Chicago: Univ. Of Chicago Press, 1963) 

Correspondence, production materials, publicity, reviews

Folders 4-5 Folktales of Japan (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1963) 

Correspondence, production materials, publicity, reviews

Folders 6-12 Folktales of Mexico (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1974) 

Correspondence, research, partial drafts, production materials, publicity, reviews

Folders 13-21 Folktales of Norway (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1964) 

Correspondence, research, drafts of end matter, proofs, production materials, publicity, reviews

Folders 22-27 Folktales of Poland [not published]

Drafts, production materials

Folders 28-31 Folktales of Scotland [not published]

Tales

Folders 32-42 Folktales Told Around the World (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1975) 
Correspondence, contract, tales, drafts
Box 34 Drafts, setting copy
Box 35
Folders 1-20
Setting copy, galleys, corrections, proofs, production materials, publicity, reviews
Folder 21 Fulminations of a Folklorist [not published]

Correspondence, outlines, proposals, research

Folders 22-25 Handbook of American Folklore (Bloomington, In: Indiana Univ. Press, 1983) 

Notes, drafts, production materials

Folders 26-27 Jonathan Draws the Long Bow (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1946) 

Research, publicity, reviews

Folders 28 Land of the Millrats (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1981) 
Research
Box 36 Drafts and corrections
Box 37 Drafts and corrections, galleys
Box 38
Folders 1-4
Galleys and corrections
Folders 5-9 Land of the Millrats: Folklore in the Calumet Region (Indiana Folklore 10:2, 1977) 

Research, drafts

Folders 10-23 Man and Beast in American Comic Legend (Bloomington, In.: Indiana Univ. Press, 1982) 

Correspondence, research, drafts, production materials

Folders 24-32 Negro Folktales in Michigan (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1956) 
Correspondence, research, drafts and corrections
Box 39
Folders 1-10
Drafts and corrections, proofs, production materials, illustrations, miscellaneous, publicity, reviews
Folders 11-26 Negro Tales from Pine Bluff, Arkansas and Calvin, Michigan (Bloomington, In.: Indiana Univ. Press, 1958) 

(IU Folklore Institute Monographs Series No. 12) Research, drafts, corrections, publicity, reviews

Folders 27-35 The Other America in Legend [not published]
Correspondence, contract, research
Box 40
Folders 1-19
Research, drafts, production material
Folders 20-27 Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968) 
Correspondence, research, drafts and corrections
Box 41 Setting copy, corrections on galleys and proofs, production materials, publicity, reviews
Box 42
Folders 1-12
Studies in Japanese Folklore (Bloomington, In.: Indiana Univ. Press, 1963) 

(IU Folklore Institute Monographs Series No. 17) Correspondence, research, drafts, corrections, production materials, publicity, reviews

Folder 13 Symbolism in American History [not published]

Notes, abstract, contract

Folders 14-17 Three Worlds of the Folklorist [not published]

Correspondence, articles proposed for inclusion, outlines, proposals

Folders 18-30 Miscellaneous

Fragments, chapters of unidentified works, footnotes, etc.

Subseries: Box 42 Articles
Folders 31-32 "The Academic Future of Folklore"
Folders 33-35 "African and Afro-American Folklore: A Reply to Bascom and Other Misguided Critics"
Folder 36 "The African Connection: Comments on 'African Folklore in the New World'"
Folder 37 "Afro-American Folktales [not published?]"
Folder 38 "Afterword"
Folder 39 "American Civilization at Harvard"
Folder 40 "American English: Some Current Tendencies"
Folder 41 "American Folk Narratives of the 17th Century [unpublished?]"
Folder 42 "American Folklore"
Folder 43 "American Folklore Bibliography"
Folder 44 "The American Folklore Scene, 1963-68"
Folder 45 "American Folklore vs. Fakelore in America"
Folder 46 "American Folklorists in Britain"
Folder 47 "American Lifestyles and Legends"
Folder 48 American Studies in Japan [article? unpublished?]
Folder 49 "The American Studies Type"
Folder 50 "America's Comic Demigods"
Folder 51 "America's Robin Hoods [unpublished?]"
Folder 52 "Andrew Lang's Folklore Interests as Revealed in 'At the Sign of the Ship' [unpublished?]"
Folder 53 "Anecdote"
Folder 54 "Applied Folklore"
Folder 55 "Archer Taylor"
Folder 56 "The Art of Negro Storytelling [unpublished?]"
Folder 57 "The Astonishing Repertoire Of James Douglas Suggs, a Michigan Negro Storyteller"
Folder 58 "Aunt Jane Goudreau, Roup-Garou Storyteller"
Folder 59 "Big Eaters"
Folder 60 "The Birth of American Studies "
Box 95
Oversize 3
"The Birth of American Studies "
Box 42
Folder 61
"Blood Stoppers"
Folder 62 "Bogies of American Folklore"
Box 43
Folder 1
"Campus Folklore"
Folder 2 "Canadians in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan"
Folder 3 "The Career of 'John Henry'"
Folder 4 "Characteristics of the Japanese Folktale"
Folder 5 "Choosing the World's Folktales [unpublished?]"
Folders 6-7 "Collecting Folklore of Jonesport, Maine"
Folder 8 "Collecting Folklore in the United States [unpublished?]"
Folder 9 "The Collecting of the Folktale in the Field and Its Problems [unpublished?]"
Folder 10 "Comic Indian Anecdotes"
Folders 11-12 "Complementary Techniques and Concepts of the Folklorist and the Historian"
Folder 13 Concepts of the Folklorist [article? unpublished?]
Folder 14 "Contemporary Folklife in the Hellhole of the Universe"
Folder 15 "Cowboy Folktales about Cowboys"
Folders 16-18 Crockett, David (Davy) [unpublished?]
Folders 19-20 "Current Folklore Theories"
Folder 21 "Davy Crockett"
Folder 22 "Davy Crockett and the Heroic Age"
Folder 23 "The Debate over the Trustworthiness of Oral Traditional History"
Folder 24 "Defining the American Folk Legend"
Folder 25 "Dialect Stories of the Upper Peninsula: A New Form of American Folklore"
Folder 26 "Doing the Fieldwork in the City"
Folder 27 "The Down-Easter Who Knew Too Much"
Folder 28 "The Eclipse of the Solar Mythology"
Folder 29 "Elsie Clews Parsons: Feminist and Folklorist"
Folders 30-31 "Esthetic Form in British and American Folklore Narrative"
Folder 32 "The Ethnic Research Survey of Northwest Indiana"
Folder 33 "Ethnohistory and Ethnic Folklore"
Folder 34 European vs. African Origins of American Negro Tales [unpublished?]
Folder 35 The Fable of the Young Man Who Wanted to Be Learned [unpublished?]
Folder 36 "Fakelore"
Folder 37 [Fieldwork on Martin Piniak's Turf]

[incomplete article? unpublished?]

Folder 38 "The First Conference on Asian Folklore"
Folder 39 "The First Group of British Folklorists"
Folder 40 "Five Directions in American Folklore"
"Folk Arts. " American People's Encyclopedia Yearbook,
Folder 41 1952 
Folder 42 1954 
Folder 43 1955 
Folder 44 1956 
Folder 45 1957 
Folder 46 1958 
Folder 47 1959 
Folder 48 1960 
Folder 49 1961 
Folder 50 "Folklore. " Collier's Encyclopedia
Folder 51 "Folklore." Dictionary of American History
Folder 52 "Folklore." Encyclopedia Britannica
Folder 53 "Folklore." Encyclopedia Universalis
Folder 54 "Folklore and American Anthropology [not published?]"
Folder 55 "Folklore and Cultural History"
Folder 56 "Folklore and Fake Lore"
Folder 57 "Folklore and the National Defense Fund Act"
Folder 58 "Folklore for Defense"
Folder 59 "Folklore in American Literature: A Postscript"
Folder 60 "Folklore in Higher Education"
Folder 61 "Folklore in Michigan"
Folder 62 "Folklore in Periodical Literature"
Folder 63 "Folklore in Relation to American Studies"
Folder 64 "Folklore in the Modern World"
Folder 65 "Folklore in the Universities"
Box 44
Folder 1
"The Folklore of College Students"
Folder 2 "Folklore of the Midwest"
Folder 3 "Folklore Research in Japan Today as Seen by an American" [unpublished?]
Folder 4 "Folklore Studies in England"
Folder 5 "Folklore Studies in the United States Today"
Folder 6 "Folklore Trip to India"
Folder 7 "Folklore vs. Fakelore - Again and Again"
Folder 8 "Folkloric Behavior as a Preventive to Heart Disease"
Folder 9 "The Folklorist in the Hospital" [unpublished?]
Folder 10 "The Folktale Repertoires of Two Maine Lobstermen"
Folder 11 "Folktales"
Folder 12 Foreword. Crow Killer
Folder 13 Foreword. Folklore in the Writings of Rowland E. Robinson
Folder 14 Foreword. The Legends of Tono
Folder 15 Foreword. Ozark Folklore; A Bibliography
Folder 16 "The Founders of British Folklore"
Folder 17 "A Fresh Look at Negro Storytelling"
Folder 18 "Giant Kansas Corn"
Folder 19 "Gib Morgan 1842-1909" [unpublished?]
Folder 20 "The Great Team of English Folklorists"
Folder 21 "The Growth of Folklore Courses"
Folder 22 "Heart Disease and Folklore"
Folder 23 "Henry Hyatt and His Sister"
Folder 24 "Historical Method and American Folklore"
Folders 25-45 "The Historical Validity of Oral Tradition"
Folder 46 "History of the Elite and History of the Folk"
Folder 47 "How Shall We Rewrite Charles M. Skinner Today?"
Folder 48 "Hugh Miller, Pioneer Scottish Folklorist"
Folder 49 "The Identification of Folklore in American Literature"
Box 45
Folder 1
"In Memoriam: Edwin C. Kirkland, 1902-1972"
Folder 2 "The Indiana African Folklore Conference"
Folder 3 Introduction. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Magic
Folder 4 Introduction. Heroic Epic and Saga
Folder 5 Introduction: African Oral Data Conference
Folder 6 Introduction: Folklore and Traditional History
Folder 7 "Is Folklore a Discipline?"
Folders 8-11 "Is There a Folk in the City?"
Folders 12-17 "Jewish-American Dialect Stories on Tape"
Folders 18-20 "John Henry." An American Primer
Folder 21 "John Henry." Encyclopedia Britannica
Folder 22 "John W. Ashton, 1900-1971"
Folder 23 "Jonathan Draws the Long Bow"
Folder 24 "Jones Tracy" [unpublished?]
Folder 25 "The Jonny-Cake Papers"
Folder 26 "Just B'ars"
Folder 27 "Katharine Briggs, James Delargy, Vance Randolph"
Folder 28 "King Beast of the Forest Meets Man"
Folder 29 "The Legend of the Missing Pajamas and Other Sad Sagas"
Folder 30 "The Legend of Yoho Cave"
Folder 31 "The Lesson of 'Foxfire'"
Folder 32 "Local History and Folklore"
Folder 33 "Luc Lacourcière: An Appreciation"
Folder 34 "The Lumberjack Code"
Folder 35 "Manifest Destiny"
Folders 36-38 "Material Components in Celebrations"
Folder 39 "Melville J. Herskovits, 1895-1963"
Folder 40 "Melville J. Herskovits Festschrift: Current Folklore Theories"
Folder 41 "Mishaps of a Maine Lobsterman"
Folder 42 "More Jewish Dialect Stories"
Folder 43 "More Negro Tales of John Blackamore"
Folder 44 "Mose the Far-Famed and World Renowned"
Folders 45-46 "Mythology and Folklore"
Folders 47-48 "Negro Folksongs in Michigan from the Repertoire of J.D. Suggs"
Folder 49 "Negro Folktales from Around Detroit" [unpublished?]
Folder 50 "A Negro Storytelling Session on Tape"
Box 46
Folder 1
"Negro Tales"
Folder 2 "Negro Tales from Bolivar County, Mississippi"
Folders 3-4 "Negro Tales of John Blackmore" [unpublished?]
Folder 5 "Negro Tales of Mary Richardson"
Folder 6 "Negro Witch Stories on Tape"
Folders 7-14 "Old New England. American Regional Folklore" [unpublished]
Folders 15-16 "The Oral Historian and the Folklorist"
Folders 17-20 "Oral Styles of American Folk Narrators"
Folder 21 "Oral Tradition and Written History: The Case for the United States"
Folder 22 "Paul Bunyan"
Folders 23-24 "Paul Bunyan in the News"
Folder 25 "Paul Bunyan in Upper Michigan" [not published?]
Folder 26 "Personal Histories"
Folder 27 "Polish Tales from Joe Woods"
Folders 28-29 "Polish Wonder Tales of Joe Woods"
Folder 30 Preface. Beyond the Enlightenment
Folder 31 "Print and American Folktales"
Folder 32 "The Question of Folklore in a New Nation"
Folder 33 "Reactions to Remarks on a Visit to Africa"
Folder 34 "Read, Opie Pope"
Folder 35 "The Reception of the British Folklorist or, Have You Read the Great Team?"
Folder 36 "Replies to Questions on 'A Theory for American Folklore'"
Folder 37 "Reply to Eliot Wigginton"
Folder 38 "Report of the Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies"
Folder 39 "Research Opportunities in American Folklore"
Folder 40 "Saga of the Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool"
Folder 41 "Sam Patch"
Folder 42 "Samuel Eliot Morison: A Reassessment of His Writings on Early America" [by Dorson? unpublished?]
Folders 43-44 "The Scholar as Artist"
Folder 45 "The Scholarly and the Popular Approaches to Folklore" [unpublished?]
Box 47
Folders 1-3
"The Shaping of Folklore Traditions in the United States"
Folder 4 "Should There Be a Ph.D. in Folklore?"
Folder 5 "Sources for Anecdotes of Local Characters" [unpublished?]
Folder 6 "Sources for the Traditional History of the Scottish Highlands and Western Islands"
Folders 7-9 "The Sources of Davy Crockett, American Comic Legend"
Folder 10 "A Southern Indiana Field Station"
Folder 11 "Southern Negro Storytellers in Michigan"
Folder 12 "Squash Memories"
Folder 13 "Standards for Collecting and Publishing American Folktales"
Folder 14 "Stith Thompson (1885-1976)"
Folder 15 "The Student Folklore Contest"
Folder 16 "The Study of Folklore and Folklife in American Universities"
Folder 17 "Summer Session at Harvard"
Folders 18-19 "Tales of a Greek-American Family on Tape"
Folder 20 "Team Fieldwork"
Folder 21 "Theories of Myth and the Folklorist"
Folders 22-25 "A Theory for American Folklore"
Folder 26 "A Theory for American Folklore Reviewed"
Folder 27 "Two City Yarnfests"
Folder 28 "Two Letters That Never Got Published; or Folklore's Censors"
Folder 29 "The UCLA Conference on American Folk Legend"
Folder 30 "The Use of Printed Sources"
Folder 31 "The Uses of Oral Tradition in American History" [unpublished?]
Folder 32 "The Value of the Humanities: A Folklorist's View"
Folder 33 "The Voice of the Horned Toad"
Folder 34 "Ein Vortwort" [by Dorson? unpublished?]
Folder 35 "The Watchdog Committee" [unpublished?]
Folder 36 "Watergate as Folklore" [unpublished?]
Folder 37 "We All Need the Folk"
Folders 38-47 We Americans
Box 95
Oversize 4
We Americans
Box 47
Folder 48
"Whoppers, Jingles." Graffiti
Folders 49-50 "The Yankee on the Stage - A Folk Hero of American Drama"
Folder 51 "Yorker Yarns of Yore"
Folder 52 The Yugoslav-American Seminars in Social Sciences and Humanities Sponsored by Indiana University with Special Reference to Folklore
Folder 53 "Yuletide Gift-Givers"
Folder 54 Miscellaneous
Subseries: Reviews

Arranged alphabetically by the author reviewed

Box 48
Folder 1
A
Folder 2 B - Boswell
Folder 3 Botkin - Bz
Folder 4 C - D
Folder 5 E - F
Folder 6 G - I
Folder 7 J - L
Folder 8 M - R
Folder 9 S
Folder 10 T - Z
Subseries: Critical Evaluations

Evaluations made by Dorson of other author's writings. Arranged alphabetically by author.

Box 48
Folder 11
A - Z
Subseries: Papers Presented

Includes papers presented to various societies, conferences, and other groups.

Box 48
Folder 12
African Seminar
Folder 13 African and Afro-American Folklore: A Reply to Bascom and Other Misguided Critics
Folder 14 America in Legend
Folder 15 American English
Folder 16 American Folklore and Folk Speech
Folder 17 The American Folklorist Model Compared with the Great Team Model
Folder 18 American Life Styles and Legends
Folder 19 Baldwin-Wallace Talk
Folder 20 Career of a Folklorist
Folder 21 Collecting Folklore in Gary, Ind.: Problems in Urban Fieldwork
Folder 22 Contribution of the Folklorist
Folder 23 Creatures of Legendry: the United States versus the Rest of the World
Folder 24 The Culture of the American People
Folder 25 First Principles
Folder 26 Folk Speech
Folder 27 Folklore and History
Folder 28 Folklore in Japan
Folder 29 Folklore in the Modern World
Folder 30 Folklore in Northwest Indiana
Folder 31 The Folklorist Looks at Myth
Folder 32 Four Worlds of the Folklorist
Folder 33 History of the Elite and History of the Folk
Folder 34 How American is Appalachian Folklore?
Folder 35 Hunting Folklore in the Armpit of America
Folder 36 Intellectual History
Folder 37 Is Folklore a Discipline?
Folder 38 Japan
Folder 39 Jeffrey's Class
Folder 40 Kansas City Paper
Folder 41 Lamont Lecture
Folder 42 Legends and Life Styles
Folder 43 Legon Seminar
Folder 44 The Nature of Folklore
Folder 45 Negro Folklore
Folder 46 Passage to India
Folders 47-48 The Pernicious Influence of the Grimm Brothers on American Folkloristics
Folder 49 Perspectives in African Folklore Research
Folder 50 Printed Sources
Folder 51 The Professor as Author
Folder 52 Publishing Folklore and the Folklore of Publishing
Folder 53 Rationale of Folklore Ph.D.
Folder 54 Scholarship and the Student
Folder 55 The Strands of American Folklore
Folder 56 Teaching Folklore to College Teachers
Folder 57 "The Today Show" appearance
Subseries: Journals

Editor's reports, correspondence, contracts, reviews, questionnaires, and articles submitted for journals with which Dorson was associated.

Box 48
Folder 58
Asian Folklore Studies
Folder 59 Folklore Forum
Folder 60 Indiana Folklore
Folders 61-63 Journal of American Folklore
Folder 64 Journal of Midwest Folklore
Folder 65-67 Journal of the Folklore Institute
Subseries: Series

Drafts, correspondence, synopses, reviews, and production materials for monograph series on folklore with which Dorson was associated

Box 48
Folder 68
American Folk Literature Series
Folder 69 American Folklore Series
Folders 70-72 Indiana University Folklore Institute Monographs

Series nos. 13, 14, 21, 23, 24, 30

Box 49
Folders 1-3
International Folklore Series (cont'd)
Folders 4-5 Studies in Folklore [Mouton]
Subseries: Royalties

Arranged chronologically.

Box 49
Folders 6-10
1950-1978 
Subseries: Writings by Others

Drafts and copies of books and articles by authors other than Dorson. Arranged alphabetically by author.

Box 49
Folder 11
Augusto, E. David. "Network Theory"

(Photocopy)

Folder 12 Babcock, Barbara A. "Helene Cordero, Creator of the 'Storyteller'"

(Photocopy)

Folder 13 Bascom, William. "Sir James Frazer on Myths and Rituals"

(Typescript)

Folders 14-15 Bauman, Richard. Verbal Art as Performance

(Photocopy of ms.)

Folder 16 Bennet, Pamela J. "Indiana's Historical Services and Beyond"

(Photocopy)

Folder 17 Blanche, Martha. "Analysis of Memorates and Anecdotes"

(Photocopy)

Folder 18 Bradunas, Elena. "From the Familiar to the Unknown: A Fieldworker's Progression"

(Photocopies of drafts)

Folder 19 Carpenter, Inta Gale. "Introduction"

(Typescript and photocopy of drafts)

Folder 20 _____. "'Only the Second Worst Things': Personal Accounts of the Field Experience"

(Typescript and photocopy of drafts)

Folders 21-22 Dundes, Alan. Analytic Essays on Folklore

(Photocopy of ms. with foreword by Dorson)

Folder 23 Dupree, Louis. "Folklore and History"

(Outline and mimeograph of project report)

Folder 24 Fernandez, James W. "Traditional Elements of Fang Folklore in Bwiti Initiation Visions"

(Mimeograph of abstract)

Folder 25 Fine, Gary Alan and Clara Giraro. "Black-White Relations in Dubois County, Indiana: The Pinkston Community 1857-1939"

(Photocopy)

Folder 26 Golopentia-Eretescu, Sanda. "What is Right, Is Right"

(Photocopy)

Folder 27 Gutowski, John A. "The Art of Professional Wrestling: Folk Expression in Modern Mass Culture"

(Mimeograph)

Folder 28 Hancock, Frank. A Hoosier Heritage; A Recollection of Early Indiana Days

(Carbon of ms.)

Folder 29 Haring, Lee. "East African Oral Narrative Progress Report of a Survey"

(Carbon)

Folder 30 Hertzfeld, Michael. "Cretan Animal-Rustling Narratives"

(Mimeograph)

Folder 31 Highwater, Jamake. [Paper presented to Children's Books International IV]

(Photocopy)

Folder 32 Holbek, Bengt. "Folklore Research in Denmark - A Danish Point of View"

(Typescript, in Danish)

Folder 33 Hori, Ichiró. "Japanese Folk Beliefs"

(Carbon)

Folder 34 Jackson, Kennell. "Proposal for Research: An Analysis and History of French and British Ethnography"

(Carbon)

Folder 35 Jensen, Donald D. "An Efficient, Effective, and Humane System of Large Class Instruction"

(Mimeograph of essay and course outline)

Folder 36 Keyworth, Glenda May. "An Exploration of Rhythm in Folktale Performance"

(Photocopy)

Folders 37-38 Kyriakides, Stilpon P. Two Studies of Modern Greek Folklore

(Photocopy of ms. and carbon of dust jacket notes by Dorson)

Folder 39 Lee, Duhyun. "An Outline History of Korean Traditional Theater Ares"

(Mimeograph)

Folder 40 Lipson-Walker, Carolyn. " 'Shalom Y'All': A Folkloristic Analysis of Southern Jews"

(Photocopy)

Folder 41 Lovingood, Sut [pseud.?] "Why Did the Albany Plan Fail?

(Typescript)

Folder 42 McCoy, Donald R. "Underdeveloped Sources of Understanding in American History"

(Photocopy)

Folder 43 McDavid, Raven I. "Dialect Geography and Social Science Problems"

(Mimeograph)

Folder 44 _____. "The Linguistic Atlas Project"

(Mimeography)

Folder 45 Mancini, Pat McNees. "The Alluring Leer of Folklore"

(Photocopy)

Folder 46 Marsh, Richard. "How I Became 'The TV Man': Video Fieldwork in the Calumet Region"

(Photocopy)

Folder 47 Marshall, Howard W. "The Paradise Valley Folklife Project: An Experimental Study"

(Photocopy)

Folder 48 Messenger, John C. "Balladmongering in Ireland"

(Photocopy)

Folder 49 _____. "Ibibio Drama"

(Photocopy)

Folder 50 _____. "When the 'Natives' Read: Publish and Perish"

(Carbon)

Folder 51 Miller, Wayne D. "Tradition and Innovation in Domesticated Gardening"

(Photocopy)

Folder 52 Misra, Bhabagrahi. "myth and Mechanics of Snake-Worship in Orissa"

(Photocopy of abstract and paper)

Folder 53 Nicolaisen, W. F. H. "A Case for an American Folklore Atlas"

(Photocopy)

Folder 54 Ouwehand, Cornelius. "Some Notes on the God Susa-No-O"

(Carbon with corrections)

Folder 55 Paredes, Américo. "The Shaping of Folklore Traditions in North America: Mexican-American Groups"

(Draft)

Folder 56 Phelps, Richard. "The Two Histories of Stringtown"

(Photocopy)

Folder 57 Reuss, Richard A. and Jens Lund. Roads into Folklore: Festschrift in Honor of Richard M. Dorson

(Mimeograph)

Folder 58 Rikoon, Sandy. "Some Problems in Soliciting Folklore Residency Applications for the Indiana Communities Project and Some Thoughts about the 'Folk Concept of "Limited Folk"'"

(Photocopy)

Box 50
Folders 1-3
Röhrich, Lutz. "The Sage"

(Typescript, carbon, photocopy of drafts with notes)

Folder 4 Sebeok, Thomas A. "A Cheremis Sonnet"

(Mimeograph with ms. notes)

Folder 5 _____. "Close Encounters with Canid Communication of the Third Kind"

(Signed photocopy)

Folder 6 _____. "Style in Finnegan's Wake"

(Mimeograph)

Folder 7 _____ and V.J. Zeps "An Analysis of Structured Content, with Application of Electronic Computer Research, in Psycholinguistics"

(Mimeograph)

Folders 8-15 Seki, Keigo. Japanese Folk Tales; translated by Robert Jesse Adams.

(Typescript, 4 vols.)

Folder 16 Seward, Adrienne Lanier. "Some Dilemmas of Fieldwork: A Personal Statement"

(Photocopy)

Folder 17 Shpoon, Saduddin. ["Life Story of Ajab Khan"]

(Mimeograph)

Folder 18 Snow, Loudell. " 'The Sun Don't Shine No Way All the Time!': Popular Medical Beliefs in a Black Neighborhood"

(Photocopy)

Folder 19 Sonnichsen, C.L. "The Grassroots Historian"

(Photocopy)

Folder 20 Sturgill, Virgil L. "The Murder of Lottie Yates"

(Carbon)

Folder 21 Suggs, Simon [pseud.?] "Roger Williams and Democratic Thought"

(Typescript)

Folder 22 Thompson, Stith. "Professional Aspects of the Trip to Scandinavia, 1951-52"

(Mimeograph)

Folder 23 Towne, Jackson E. "Victory Parade in Vichy"

(Carbon)

Folder 24 Tsuji, Mitsue. "Ainu Folk Tales"

(Draft)

Folder 25 Van Dommelan, David B. Review of Meddelelser Om Grønland

(Carbon)

Folder 26 Weber, Brom. "A Note on Edmund Wilson and George Washington Harris"

(Mimeograph)

Folder 27 Wildhaber, Robert. "About a 'Folklore Institute' in USA"

(Ms. and typescript)

Folder 28 Williams, John Alexander. "The Establishment and the Tape Recorder: Radicalism and Professionalism in Folklore Studies, 1933-1968"

(Photocopy, with notes by Dorson)

Folder 29 Winther, Oscar O. "Oral History: A Report and a Commentary"

(Carbon)

Folder 30 _____. "Regionalism in the USA"

(Mimeograph)

Folder 31 Zimmerman, Zora Devrnja. "The Changing Roles of the Vila in Serbian Traditional Literature"

(Photocopy)

Folder 32 [Author Unknown] "Folklore as Culture of Contention"

(Photocopy with corrections)

Folder 33 _____. "The Hour Is Come But Not the Man

(Carbon)

Folder 34 _____. [John Woolman]

(Draft)

Folder 35 _____. "Structural and Aesthetic Characteristics of the Kwaiti Chanties"

(Photocopy)

Folders 36-37 _____. [Tayil among the Mapuche of Argentina]

(Photocopy)

Folder 38 _____. "Torleus and the Dapamorz: Two Examples of Ethnic Amalgamation in the Song of Roland"

(Carbon)

Folder 39 _____. "Wandlung und Bedeutung des Rumpelstilzmärchens"

(Photocopy)

Series: III. Research and Fieldwork

Bibliography and bibliographical citations; Fieldwork notes, notebooks, and tapes; Research Bibliography and Bibliographical Citations.

Includes materials on general folklore, African folklore, American humor, Dictionary of Popular Beliefs, ethnomusicology, heroes, immigrations, mythology, oral tradition, the Ozarks, urban lore, on the folklore of the Germans, Mennonites, Micronesians, Slavs, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Americans, Yugoslavians, and American Studies.

Subseries: Box 50
Folders 40-49
Bibliography and bibliographical citations
Box 51
Folders 1-28
Bibliography and bibliographical citations (cont'd)
Box 82 Index Cards, Boxes 1-2
Subseries: Fieldwork Notes

Arranged chronologically. Filed separately are field tapes.

Box 51
Folder 29
Informant: John Jacob Niles, 1945 
Folders 30-45 Michigan (Upper Peninsula), 1946-1947.  Immigrant-Old Country folklore
Box 52
Folders 1-29
Michigan (Upper Peninsula) (cont'd) 1946-1947  
Box 53
Folders 1-6
Michigan (Upper Peninsula) (cont'd) 1946-1947 
Folders 7-20 Michigan (Calvin and Benton Harbor), 1952-1953.  Black folklore
Folder 21 Michigan (Woodland Park and Idlewild), 1952-1953.  Black folklore
Folder 22 Michigan (Mecosta), 1952-1953.  Black folklore
Folder 23 Michigan, 1952-1953  (General)
Folders 24-30 Arkansas, 1952-1953.  Black folklore
Folder 31 Mississippi, 1953.  Black folklore
Folders 32-51 Michigan and Arkansas, 1952-1953.  Black folklore
Folders 52-54 Michigan State University, 1954  (informant: Jim Johnston). Folktales and Folksongs
Box 54
Folder 1
Informants: Paul Green and A.P. Hudson, 1954 
Folder 2 Michigan, 1955  (informants: Corombos family). Greek-American folklore
Folders 3-27 Maine, 1956  (Jonesport, Machias)
Folder 28 Rhode Island, 1956.  Supernatural, local legend
Folder 29 Maine, 1960, Sept. 20  (informant: Donald Taverner)
Folder 30 Indiana University, Bloomington, 1960, Nov. 9 
Folders 31-32 Scotland, 1967 
Folder 33 California, 1968.  Immigrant
Folders 34-42 Indiana (The Region), 1968,  1975-1976.  Industrial, ethnic, urban folklore
Folders 43-46 Africa, 1970 
Folder 47 Japan, 1975 
Folder 48 India, 1978 
Folders 49-50 Miscellaneous
Subseries: Notebooks

Spiral-bound notebooks containing notes on fieldwork

Box 55
Folder 1
Notebooks

Contains the Following:

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  • 1-2. St. Ignace
  • 3-4. Soo
  • 5-6. Newberry
  • 7. Grand Marais
  • 8. Munising
  • 9. Marquette
  • 10. Gwinn-Ishpenning-Negaunee
  • 11. Ishpenning-L'Anse
  • 12. L'Anse-Houghton
  • 13. Hancock
  • 14. Menominee
  • 15. Iron Mountain-Crystal Falls
  • 16. Crystal Falls
  • 17. Watersmeet-Ontonegon
  • 18. Printed sources
  • 19-22. U.P. [Upper Peninsula] 1947
  • 23. [untitled]
  • 24. Marquette-L'Anse, Aug.-Sept.
  • 25. [untitled]
  • 26. Blaney Park
  • 27. Crystal Falls to Ontonegon (June)
  • 28. Stories
  • 29. Shingleton
  • 30-36. [untitled]
  • 37. Manistique
  • 38-39. Escanaba
  • 40. Ironwood
  • 41. Gwinn
  • 42. Blaney Park
  • 43. Addresses, 1946
  • 44. [untitled]
  • 45. Daisy Distal, K of C, Masons
  • 46. Oremos, Mrs. Eichmayer, Mary Claire
  • 47. Webberville
  • 48. Eden, Canterbury Club
  • 49-50. [untitled]
  • 51. Meridian, Mason
  • 52. 1947 Fall
  • 53. East Lansing, Alf Jones
  • 54. Manitowoc
Folder 2 Notebooks

Contains the Following:

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  • 1-4. Calvin, Mar. 1952
  • 5. Benton Harbor, Mar. 1952
  • 6. Calvin, Benton Harbor, Mar. 1952
  • 7. J.D. Suggs, June 1952
  • 8-10. Benton Harbor, June 1952
  • 11. Calvin, Sept. 13, 14, 1952
  • 12. November 21, 22, 1952
  • 13. Suggs, Nov. 23, 1952
  • 14. Suggs, Feb. 7-8, 1953
  • 15. Calvin, July 11-12, 1953
  • 16. Calvin, Benton Harbor, Covert, July 12-13, 1953
  • 17. July 14, 1953
  • 18. Calvin-Niles, August 21-22, 1953
  • 19. August 23, 1953
  • 20. Iron Mountain
  • 21. East Lansing
  • 22. Jim Dungee, weather signs, Mar. 1952
  • 23. Calvin
  • 24. Calvin, Sept. 14, 1952
  • 25. Calvin (small), Mar. 1952
  • 26. Benton Harbor, Mar. 1952
Folder 3 Notebooks

Contains the following:

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  • 1. Inkster, Sept. 6-9, 1952
  • 2. Mecosta, Feb. 21, 1953
  • 3. Mecosta, Aug. 14-16, 1953
  • 4. Inkster-Walter Winfrey, July 6-7, 1953
  • 5. Inkster-Walter Winfrey, July 8, 1953
  • 6. Arkansas 1, June 23-24, 1953
  • 7. Arkansas 2, June 25-27, 1953
  • 8. Arkansas 3, June 28-29, 1953
  • 9. Arkansas 4, June 30, 1953
  • 10. Mississippi, July 2, 1953
  • 11. Woodland Park, Idlewild, Sept. 11, 18, 1952
  • 12. Inkster, 1952
  • 13. Arkansas, June 1953
  • 14. [untitled]
Box 56
Folder 1
Notebooks

Contains the following:

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  • 1-2. Gary diary, 1
  • 2. Gary diary, 2
  • 3. Gary texts
  • 4. Africa 1, 3 March-4 April 1970
  • 5. Africa 2, Notes
  • 6. Gary 1
  • 7. Gary 2
  • 8. Gary 3
  • 9. [untitled]
  • 10. Gary 4
  • 11. Gary 5
  • 12. East Chicago
  • 13. Gary 1975
  • 14. Gary 2
  • 15-21. [untitled]
Box 56
Folder 2
Notebooks

Contains the following:

  • 1. [untitled]
  • 2. Scotland
  • 3-4. [untitled]
  • 5. Jonesport
  • 6. [untitled]
  • 7. Duluth
  • 8-12. [untitled]
  • 13. Cambridge
  • 14-15. Minneapolis
  • 16. Bulgarian
Subseries: Fieldwork Tapes
Box 80 Jonesport, Maine (reel-to-reel)

Contains the following:

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  • 1. Cecil Kelley, June 29, 1956
  • 2. Capitan W. L. Farnsworth, July 1, 1956
  • 3. James Alley, Curt Morse, Luther Sawyer, July 1-2, 1956
  • 4. James and Frank Alley, July 2, 1956
  • 5. James and Frank Alley, Stuart Alley, James Alley, July 6, 9-10, 1956
  • 6. Maurice Alley, James Alley, July 8, 10, 1956
  • 7. Riley Beal, James Alley, Alfred Alley, July 9, 10, 1956
  • 8. Alfred Alley, Curt Morse, Losey Grant, July 10-12, 1956
  • 9. John Porter's home, Lowell, Maine, July 15, 1956
  • 10. Beal's Island, Jim Alley, Mary Huling, Vi Pierce, July 17-18, 28-29, 1956
  • 11. Vi Pierce, Charles Sherman, Ira and Gus Tisdak, July 29-30, 1956
  • 12. Madrigal Singers, June 8, 1956
The Region (cassettes)

Contains the following:

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  • 13. Gary Project. Gil Rozo, Joseph and Angela Maniak, Oct. 17, 1975
  • 14. Gary Project. Gil Rozo, Larry Regan, Oct. 20, 1975
  • 15. Dorson 44. William Harvey, Cavalry Baptist, Nov. 30, 1975
  • 16. Dorson 87. Milan Ospich, May 8, 1976
  • 17. Dorson 89. Yamil Sahb, Ruth Rodriguez, May 11, 14, 1976
  • 18. Dorson 90. Ed Zivich, Rev. Anthony, May 26, 30, 1976
  • 19. Dorson 91.
  • 20. Dorson 95. Warren Reeder
  • 21. Dorson 96. Warren Reeder
  • 22. Gary Bicentennial Senior Citizens Festival, Orestes Hood, Robert Anderson, July 7, 1976
  • 23. Rick Broodstone. 118 Valparaiso,July 17, 1977
  • 24. Scott Szybala, collector. Greg Szybala
  • 25. Scott Szybala, collector. Kevin McDaniel and Rob Cope on the Steel Mills
  • 26. Scott Szybala, collector. Mill, Wally, and Doug, Nov. 19, 1975
  • 27. Dorson. Interviews on steel mills
Calvin, Michigan (reel-to-reel tapes)

Contains the following:

  • 1. J.D. Suggs - Tales and Songs (Negro), 1952
  • 2. J.D. Suggs - Animal Tales (Negro), June 1952
  • 3. J.D. Suggs - Humorous Tales (Negro), Mar. 1952
  • 3. J.D. Suggs - Humorous Tales (Negro), Mar. 1952
  • 4. Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Smith and Mary Richardson - Songs and Tales (Negro), 1952
  • 5. Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Smith and Mary Richardson - Witchcraft Stories (Negro), 1952
  • 6. Gib Morgan tales - Dorson, collector (copy of ATL 1354), undated
  • 7. Miscellaneous cassette
Miscellaneous (reel-to-reel tapes)

Contains the following:

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  • 1. Julian Lee Rayford, Mobile, AL - Cries, Chants, Tales, Songs, 1952
  • 2. English L384, March 28, 1961
  • 3. Bob Dylan - P.P. Federspiel "The Folk in American History, July 8, 1970
  • 4. Soledad Perez Newman - Spanish-Mexican Southwest Folklore, June 30, 1960
  • 5. Harold Males - Jewish dialect stories from Brooklyn, June 30, 1959
  • 6. The Smiths: Songs and tales, June 3, 1952
  • 7. The Smiths: Witchcraft stories, June 3, 1952
  • 8. Curt Morse - Machias, July 13, 1956; Kilton's Store - Jonesport, July 14, 1956
  • 9. Storys (sic) told by 9 different informants, undated
  • 10. "from Donald V. Taverner, The University of Maine, Orono, undated
  • 11. Two unidentified tapes marked "Dorson?" undated
Box 81 Reel-to-reel tapes

Contains the following:

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  • 1. Demo 102 - Cowboy music and lore, B. Taylor, Dec. 12, 1968
  • 2. Demo 126 - Regional Lore
  • 3. Demo 127 and copy - Child ballads in America
  • 4. Demo 128 and copy - Negro Lore
  • 5. Demo 129 and copy - Historical events
  • 6. Demo 130 - Occupational Lore
  • 7. Demo 131 - College & Modern Folklore
  • 8. Demo 132 and copy - Labor-Protest uses of folksongs
  • 9. Demo 133 - Immigrant lore
  • 10. Richard M. Dorson - Parrington, Sept. 10, 1980
  • 11. Gary - Charles H. King, St. John Primitive Baptist Church, Feb. 24-25, 1968
  • 12. The Folklore Institute Conference, Reel #2
  • 13. Two unidentified tapes
  • 14. History 230, 1947, Dorson
  • 15. History 230, 1948, Dorson
  • 16. History 230, 1949, Dorson
  • 17. Irma Ireland, 1949, Dorson
  • 18. John Laitala, 1949, Dorson
  • 19. George T. Springer, Dorson
  • 20. 1947 (!), Dorson
  • 21. Gib Morgan stories, Mrs. Verna Lowry, May 10, 1956; Venezuelan songs, May 22, 1956
  • 22. Mary Jo Davis, Fayetteville, Arkansas, June 19, 1953
  • 23. Session One: R.T. King/RMD
  • 24. J.D. Suggs - Humorous tales, Mar. 28, 1952 and Songs and stories, June 2, 1952
  • 25. Jewish Dialect jokes, Harry Lux, Spring 1956
  • 26. Jim Johnston, East Lansing, MI, Dec. 1 and 10, 1954
  • 27. Bible and hoodoo stories - Suggs; Brer Rabbit stories
  • 28. Curt Morse and James Alley, July 1, 1956
  • 29. Jonesport: Frank C. Alley, July 2 and July 3, 1956
  • 30. Frank C. Alley, July 3, 1956; Napoleon Beal, July 3, 1956
  • 31. Jonesport: Stuart Alley, July 5, 1956; James Alley, July 6, 1956
  • 32. Suggs, Feb. 7, 1953 - songs with guitar; Suggs, Mar. 14, 1953 - mixed

Subseries: Research

Articles, brochures, and ephemera collected by Dorson on various topics and regions. Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Box 56
Folders 3-4
Africa
Folders 5-12 American Folklore:
Black
Folder 13 Egypt, Illinois
Folder 14 Hawaii
Folders 15-18 Immigrant
Folder 19 Midwest
Folder 20 Mormons
Folders 21-22 Native American
Box 57
Folders 1-5
New England
Folder 6 Pennsylvania Dutch
Folders 7-32 The Region (Indiana)
Box 58
Folders 1-6
The Region (Indiana) (cont'd)
Box 95
Oversize 5
The Region (Indiana) (cont'd)
Box 58
Folders 7
Regionalism
Folder 8 Rocky Mountain and West Coast
Folder 9 Shakers
Folder 10 South
Folder 11 Spanish Southwest
Folders 12-14 Urban
Folders 15-17 Folklore in America
Folders 18-19 American Studies
Folder 20 Czechoslovakia
Folder 21 Egypt
Folders 22-23 England
Folder 24 Gypsies
Folders 25-26 Hungary
Folder 27 India
Folders 28-31 Ireland
Folders 32-36 Japan
Box 59
Folders 1-3
Japan (cont'd)
Folders 4-6 Scotland
Folders 7-8 Celebrations: Christmas
Folder 9 Children's Folklore
Folder 10 Creatures of Legend
Folders 11-12 Dialects
Folder 13 Folk Art
Box 95
Oversize 6
Folk Art
Box 59
Folders 14-15
Folk Beliefs
Folder 16 Folk Dance
Folder 17 Folk Drama
Folder 18 Folk Festival
Folders 19-20 Folk Heroes
Folder 21 Folk Heroes: B
Folders 22-25 Folk Heroes: Bunyan
Folder 26 Folk Heroes: C-F
Folder 27 Folk Heroes: G-M
Folders 28-30 Folk Heroes: Mose, the Bowery B'hoy
Folder 31 Folk Heroes: P
Folders 32-35 Folk Heroes: Patch
Folder 36 Folk Heroes: Smith, Oregon
Folder 37 Folk Heroes: S-Z
Folder 38 Folk Heroes: Mss.
Folders 39-42 Folk Humor
Box 60
Folders 1-3
Folk Humor (cont'd)
Folder 4 Folk Life
Folder 5 Folk Medicine
Folders 6-9 Folk Song
Folders 10-12 Folklore and Anthropology
Folder 13 Folklore and Education
Folder 14 Folklore and History
Folders 15-17 Folklore and History: Local History
Folders 18-21 Folklore and History: Oral History
Folders 22-27 Folklore and Literature
Folders 28-29 Folklore and Psychology
Folder 30 Folklore and Religion
Folder 31 Folkloristics
Folder 32 Folkloristics: Historiography
Folders 33-42 Folkloristics: Historiography (British Folklorists)
Box 61
Folders 1-3
Folkloristics: Historiography (British Folklorists) (cont'd)
Folder 4 Folkloristics: Historiography (Chicago Folklore Society)
Folder 5 Heart
Folder 6 Magic
Folders 7-8 Myth
Folders 9-10 Narrative Genres:
Folder 11 Texts
Folders 12-13 Anecdotes
Folder 14 Family Sagas
Folders 15-16 Local Legends
Folder 17 St. Peter Stories
Folders 18-21 Tall Tales
Folder 22 Occupational Lore:
Business, Circus
Folder 23 Cowboys
Folder 24 Lumberjacks
Folder 25 Mining
Folder 26 Oil Drilling
Folder 27 Onomastics
Folder 28 Ritual
Folder 29 School and College Lore
Folder 30 Sports Lore
Folders 31-36 Supernatural Beliefs and Legends
Folders 37-38 Word Play
Folder 39 Writing
Folders 40-48 Youth/Counter Culture
Box 62
Folders 1-8
(cont'd)
Folder 9 (Draft Dodging)
Folders 10-23 (Drug Lore)
Folders 24-26 (Motorcycle Lore)
Folders 27-28 (Religious Movements)
Folders 29-34 (Ephemera)
Box 63 Youth/Counter Culture (cont'd)
Box 64 Youth/Counter Culture (cont'd)
Box 65
Folders 1-18
Miscellaneous Research
Box 82 Miscellaneous Research: Index cards Boxes 3-5
Series: IV. University Materials

Arranged as follows: Administrative files, Class Notes, Student Papers, and Dissertations

Subseries: Administrative Files

Arranged alphabetically by Indiana University department, followed by a file of Michigan State University materials.

Box 65
Folder 19
Archives of Traditional Music
Folder 20 Folklore Archives
Folders 21-47 Folklore Department and Institute.

Budget, course evaluation, course outline, equipment, faculty meetings, lecture schedule, News Bureau releases, personnel

Box 66
Folders 1-11
Folklore Department and Institute (cont'd).

Reports, students, summer institutes and seminars, miscellaneous and printed

Folders 12-27 History Department.

Budget, course outlines, department meetings, faculty, appointments, memos, students, and printed

Folders 28-44 Indiana University.

Committees, forms, I.U. Foundation, I.U. Library, I.U. Museum, memos & miscellaneous, reports, and Printed

Folder 45 Michigan State University
Subseries: Class Notes

Notes for folklore and history courses, primarily at I.U. but also at Michigan State, UCLA, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania. Arranged by class number or title.

Box 66
Folders 46-49
Class notes
Boxes 67-69 Class notes (cont'd)
Subseries: Student Papers

These are primarily from I.U. classes and are arranged by class number or title, or where those details are missing, by author's name.

Boxes 70-71 Student Papers
Box 72
Folders 1-11
Student Papers (cont'd)
Subseries: Dissertations

Chapters and drafts of dissertations in folklore. Arranged alphabetically by author.

Box 72
Folder 12
Adams, Robert J.
Folder 13 Bronner, Simon J.
Folder 14 Gallagher, James
Folder 15 Georges, Robert A.
Folder 16 Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara
Folder 17 Kulii, Elon A.
Folders 18-20 Piersen, William Dillon
Folder 21 Reuss, Richard A.
Folders 22-25 Schmaier, Maurice D.
Folder 26 Stone, Ruth
Folder 27 Yahaya, Ibrahim Yaro
Series: V. Miscellaneous

Contains both personal and professional files. Arranged as follows: American Folklife Bill, Conferences, Societies, Personal, Northeast Sea Community, Photographs, and Printed.

Subseries: American Folklife Bill
Box 72
Folder 28
Includes Dorson's testimony at Senate hearings on proposed bill, 1970 
Subseries: Conferences
Box 72
Folders 29-32
African Folklore Conference
Folders 33-35 African Studies Association Conference on Oral Data Sources in Africa
Folder 36 American Anthropological Association
Folders 37-38 American Folklore Conferences
Folders 39-45 American Folklore Society Conferences
Box 73
Folders 1-11
American Folklore Society Conferences (cont'd)
Folder 12 American Indian Ethnohistoric Conference
Folder 13 American Studies Association
Folders 14-17 American-Yugoslav Seminar on Nationalism and Regionalism in American and Yugoslav History and Folklore
Folder 18 Anglo-American Folklore Conference
Folder 19 Asian Folklore Conference
Folder 20 Association of African and African-American Folklorists
Folder 21 Behavioral Science Symposium
Folder 22 Bicentennial Writer's Workshop
Folder 23 British Association for the Advancement of Science
Folder 24 California Folklore Society
Folder 25 Conference for History and Social Studies Teachers
Folder 26 Conference on African Arts
Folders 27-28 Conference on African Language and Literature
Folders 29-30 Conference on American Folk Legend
Folder 31 Conference on Folklore and Social Science
Folders 32-38 Conference on Folklore in the Modern World
Box 74
Folder 1
Conference on Immigration in American History
Folder 2 Conference on Modern Ethnography of American Folklife
Folder 3 Conference on Oriental-Western Literary and Cultural Relations
Folder 4 Conference on the Relations Between Verbal and Visual Arts in Africa
Folder 5 Congrès International d'Ethnologie Européenne
Folders 6-7 Congress of European Folklore
Folder 8 Critical Issues in the Humanities
Folder 9 Detroit Bicentennial Lecture Series, Ethnic Folklore in America
Folder 10 Deutscher Volkskunde-Kongress
Folder 11 English Institute
Folder 12 The First World Congress for Jewish Folklore Research
Folder 13 Folklore Institute Conference
Folder 14 Folklore Society International Centenary Conference
Folder 15 Forms upon the Frontier
Folder 16 German-American Literary Relations Conference
Folder 17 Hoosier Folklore Conference
Folders 18-19 Hungarian Ethnographical Congress
Folder 20 Indiana Conference on Historical Preservation
Folders 21-28 International Congress of Americanists
Folders 29-34 International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Folder 35 International Congress of Ethnography
Folder 36 International Congress of European and Western Ethnology
Folders 37-39 International Society for Folk Narrative Research
Box 75
Folders 1-9
International Society for Folk Narrative Research (cont'd)
Folder 10 International Symposium, National Academy of Sciences
Folder 11 International Symposium on Creatures of Legendry
Folder 12 James Fenimore Cooper Centennial Meetings
Folder 13 The Kansas Folklore Society
Folder 14 Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters
Folder 15 Michigan Library Association
Folder 16 Mid-Atlantic Folklore Society Conference
Folder 17 Middle Atlantic Conference on Folk Culture
Folder 18 Multi-Regional Folk Culture Group
Folder 19 National Workshop on Oral History
Folders 20-22 Oral Literature and the Formula
Folder 23 Organization of American Historians
Folders 24-26 Purdue Conference on American Culture
Folder 27 Research Opportunities in American Cultural History
Folder 28 Seminar on American Culture
Folder 29 Seminar on the Techniques and Use of Oral History
Folder 30 [Shattering the Stereotype: Folklore in Contemporary Life]
Folder 31 Société Intenationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore [S.I.E.F]
Folder 32 Society of Indiana Pioneers
Folder 33 South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Folder 34 Southeastern Folklore Society
Folder 35 Symposium on the Urban Experience and Folk Tradition
Folder 36 Texas Folk-Lore Society
Folder 37 The Urban Experience and Folk Traditions Symposium
Folder 38 Urban Folklore Conference
Folder 39 Volkskunde-Kongress
Folder 40 Western Folklore Conferences
Folder 41 Yugoslav-American Conference on Social Science
Folder 42 Yugoslav-Indiana University Seminar on Selected Problems of Social Sciences and Humanities
Subseries: Societies
Box 75
Folder 43
American Anthropological Association
Folder 44 American Association of University Professors
Folders 45-49 American Council of Learned Societies
Box 76
Folders 1-4
American Council of Learned Societies (cont'd)
Folder 5 American Folklore Society
Folder 6 American Historical Association
Folder 7 American Philosophical Society
Folder 8 American Studies Association
Folder 9 Asia Society
Folders 10-11 Asian Folklore
Folder 12 Association for Asian Studies
Folder 13 California Folklore Society
Folder 14 Campanha de Defensa do Folklore Brasileiro
Folder 15 Cleveland Folklore Society
Folder 16 Commission Internationale des Arts & Traditions Populaires
Folder 17 Detroit Historical Society
Folder 18 Festival of American Folklife
Folder 19 Festival of Traditional Arts
Folder 20 Folklore Society
Folder 21 HAF
Folder 22 Hammond Historical Society
Folder 23 Historical Society of Michigan
Folder 24 History Club
Folder 25 Hoosier Festival
Folders 26-28 Hoosier Folklore Society
Folder 29 Indiana Historical Society
Folder 30 Kansas Folklore Society
Folder 31 Keene Folk Festival
Folder 32 Louisiana Folklore Society
Folder 33 Michigan Folklore Society
Folder 34 Midwest University Consortium
Folder 35 Mississippi Valley Historical Association
Folder 36 Modern Language Association
Folder 37 National Folk Festival
Folder 38 North Carolina Folklore Society
Folder 39 Ohio Folklore Society
Folder 40 Oral History Association
Folder 41 Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival
Folder 42 Scottish Anthropological & Folklore Society
Folder 43 Sheffield
Folders 44-47 Smithsonian Council
Folder 48 Sociedad Folklórica del Uruguay
Folder 49 Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore
Folder 50 Society for Folklore Studies
Folder 51 Society for the North American Cultural Survey
Folder 52 Society of American Historians
Folders 53-54 Miscellaneous
Subseries: Personal
Box 76
Folder 55
Biographical materials
Folder 56 Address Books
Folders 57-61 Agenda Items
Box 77
Folders 1-3
Appointment Books
Folder 4 Awards
Box 95
Oversize 7
Awards
Box 77
Folder 5
Bookplates
Folders 6-17 Classwork.

This includes Dorson's notes from classes he attended and papers written for class

Folders 18-41 Curriculum vitae, 1953-1979 
Folders 42-43 Grants
Box 78
Folders 1-21
Grants (cont'd)
Folder 22 Identification papers
Folder 23 Thesis. "Frontier Humor," 1937 
Folder 24 Will
Folders 25-26 Work pads
Subseries: Northeast Sea Community [film project]
Box 78
Folder 27
Northeast Sea Community.

Includes memos, specifications, content outline, suggested treatment, storyboard, etc.

Subseries: Photographs
Box 78
Folder 28
Jonesport, Maine
Folder 29 Ox roast
Folder 30 Dorson and two of his Ph.D. graduates
Folder 31 Two color slides of Dorson with other people
Folder 32 Color negative of Dorson
Folder 33 Dorson, Folklore faculty, and Laurie Honko
Folder 34 Dorson at a conference
Folder 35 Stati and Dorothy Dobrovits
Box 95
Oversize 8
Dorson in sombrero and Dorson with tennis team
Subseries: Printed

This category includes newspaper and magazine clippings, scattered issues of various non-folklore journals and magazines, and newsletters.

Box 78
Folders 36-40
Clippings: Dorson & Folklore Institute, 1944-1978 
Folders 41-45 Clippings: Folklore, 1895-1899,  1950-1980 
Folders 46-49 Clippings: Miscellaneous, 1950-1976 
Box 79
Folders 1-2
Clippings: Miscellaneous
Folders 3-9 Journals: A - Z
Folders 10-17 Newsletters: A - Z
Folders 18-23 Miscellaneous
Series: VI. Additions

Contains materials received since 1982. Arranged in the same order as Series I through V.

Subseries: Box 83 Correspondence, 1955-1981 
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  • Andersen, S.P.
  • Arewa, E. Ojo
  • Arno Press
  • Ball, John
  • Barbour, Frances M.
  • Barnes, Tom
  • Benson, Martha A.
  • Blair, Walter
  • Blank, Les
  • Call, Thelma
  • Callery, Joseph S.
  • Carvalho-Neto, Paulo de
  • Cogswell, Roby
  • Constantin, Charles
  • Current-Garcia, Gene
  • Dégh, Linda
  • Dorson, Richard Mercer
  • Dundes, Alan
  • Elliott, Gerald A.
  • Encyclopädie des Märchens
  • Fallon, John
  • Fergusson, Donald A.
  • Ferris, William Reynolds
  • Flanagan, John Theodore
  • Ford Foundation
  • Garbat, Audre D.
  • Gillis, Frank
  • Gillmor, Frances
  • Glassie, Henry Haywood
  • Greenway, John
  • Greenwood Press
  • Gresham, William B., Jr.
  • Gunderson, R.G.
  • Hand, Wayland Debs
  • Harvard University Press
  • Herskovits, Melville Jean
  • Ho, Ting-jui
  • Indiana University Press
  • International Zeemanshuis-Antwerpen
  • Janson, H.F.
  • Jones, Stephen S., Jr.
  • Kane, Richard
  • Kendrick, John H.
  • Kirkendall, Richard S.
  • Laade, Wolfgang
  • Lindahl, Car
  • McCann, William C.
  • MacPhail, Heather
  • Matičetov, Milko
  • Merino de Zela, E. Mildred
  • Muelder, Milton E.
  • Nye, Russel Blaine
  • Pargellis, Stanley
  • Popov, A.
  • Remak, Henry
  • Richmond, Winthrop Edson
  • Roberts, Warren Everett
  • Ross, E.
  • Senn, Harry A.
  • Shamy, Hasan M. El-
  • Simmons, Merle Edwin
  • Slobin, Mark
  • Stampe, Betsy and Dennis W. Stampe
  • Stetson, R.H.
  • Trevor, J.C.
  • Visher, Halene Hatcher
  • Warren, D.M. (Mike)
  • Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie Brooke
  • Wrigglesworth, Hazel J.
  • Family Unidentified correspondents

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, followed by correspondence with Dorson's family and a folder of unidentified persons (39 folders).

Subseries: Writings by Dorson - Books
Box 83 African Folklore (New York: Anchor Books, 1972). 

Drafts. (7 folders)

America in Legend (New York: Pantheon, 1973). 

Outline, introduction, notes, drafts. (17 folders)

Box 84 America in Legend (cont'd)

(17 folders)

American Negro Folktales (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1967). 

Galleys. (1 folder)

Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1952). 

Contents, synopsis, drafts, appendix, research. (17 folders)

Box 85 A Book of American Legends [unpublished].

Drafts. (2 folders)

Folklore in the Modern World (Bloomington, In.: Folklore Publication Group, 1974). 

Tentative contents and geographical distribution of participants (1 folder)

Folklore in the United States [not published]

Draft. (1 folder)

Folklore: Selected Essays (Bloomington, In.: Indiana Univ. Press, 1972). 

Excerpt, draft pages. (2 folders)

Folktales of the World [series].

General correspondence; correspondence and other materials arranged alphabetically by countries which were not published; receipts; draft pages. (36 folders)

Folktales of Brazil [unpublished].

Drafts and research. (3 folders)

Folktales of Burma [unpublished].

Drafts. (4 folders)

Box 86 Folktales of Burma (cont'd).

Draft. (1 folder)

Folktales of Egypt (Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press, 1979). 

Foreword, drafts. (3 folders)

Folktales of India [not published].

Drafts, research, etc. (14 folders)

Folktales of Poland [not published].

Introduction, research, drafts. (6 folders)

Box 87 Folktales of Poland (cont'd).

Draft. (1 folder)

Folktales of Scotland [not published].

Correspondence, notes, research, drafts. (9 folders)

Folktales of Southern Africa [not published].

Research, drafts. (4 folders)

Folktales of Switzerland [not published].

Drafts. (4 folders)

Folktales of West Africa [not published].

Drafts. (2 folders)

Box 88 Folktales Told Around the World (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1975 ).

Drafts. (3 folders)

International Handbook of Folklore Studies [not published?].

Correspondence, drafts, catalogs from Greenwood Press. (1 folder)

Land of the Millrats (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1981). 

Correspondence, introduction and epilogue. (3 folders)

Box 95
Oversize 9
Land of the Millrats... Maps
Box 88 Man and Beast in American Comic Legend (Bloomington, In.: Indiana Univ. Press, 1982)/ 

Correspondence, contract, draft. (1 folder)

"Anthology rejects" and notes.

(2 folders)

Subseries: Writings by Dorson - Articles

Mostly drafts. One folder per title, unless otherwise indicated.

African and Afro-American Folklore: A Reply to Bascom and Other Misguided Critics
American English

(2 folders)

Classifying Ethnic Folk Behavior
Collecting Folklore in Jonesport, Maine
Contemporary American Thought
Current Folklore Theories
Historical Validity of Oral Tradition

(3 folders)

History and the College Student
Is There a Folk in the City?
Negro Protest Tales
The Poverty of American Culture
Should There Be a Ph.D. in Folklore?
Subseries: Writings by Dorson - Reviews

Book reviews written by Dorson. Arranged alphabetically by the author reviewed

A - Z

(4 folders)

Subseries: Writings by Dorson - Papers Presented

Includes papers presented to various societies, conferences, and other groups.

American Folk Heroes
Folklore Studies in the United States Today
Peace-making
Subseries: Writings by Dorson - Series

Include drafts, correspondence, synopses, reviews, and production materials for monograph series on folklore with which Dorson was associated.

Indiana University Folklore Institute Monographs Series.

Correspondence, schedules, prospectuses, notes, research. (8 folders)

Box 89 Indiana University Folklore Institute Monographs Series (cont'd)

(7 folders)

Regional American Folklore series.

Prospectus (1 folder)

Studies in Folklore series.

Proofs

Subseries: Writings by Others

Books and articles by authors other than Dorson. Arranged alphabetically by author.

Box 89 Alvey, R. Gerald. A Second Look at the Secondary Ballad.

Photocopy

Binkele, Judith. The State of Folklore Study in Belgium. 1958.

Photocopy

Davidson, Levette J. An Introduction to American Folklore.

Mimeograph copy

Degh, Linda. untitled
Dundes, Alan. Structuralism and Folklore.

Mimeograph copy

Green, Archie. A Discography of American Coal Miners' Songs.

Photocopy

Hines, Donald. Traditional Narratives of Plateau Indians.

Correspondence and photocopy

Jones, Steven S. The Classification of Prose Narrative Folklore: A Reassessment.

Photocopy

Lee, Hector. The Three Nephites.

Carbon copy

Midgett, Douglas K. Performance Roles and Musical Change in a Caribbean Society.

Photocopy

Nakhnikian, George. Love in Human Reason.

Photocopy

Oinas, Felix. Folklore, Nationalism and Politics.

Photocopy

_____. The Transformation of Folklore into Literature.

Photocopy

_____. Folk Legend-VOlkssage - A Stumbling Stone in Division of Types of Oral Narrative.

Typescript

O'Meally, Robert G. Invisible Man: "Black and Blue"

Photocopy

Skendi, Stavro. Serbocroatian Herioc Songs.

Typescript

Subseries: Research and Fieldwork

Correspondence, notes, printed materials, etc. pertaining to the following subjects. One folder per subject, unless otherwise indicated.

Box 89 Bibliography and Bibliographical Citations.

(4 folders)

Africa

(3 folders)

Afro-American folklore
American Indian
Anthology

(2 folders)

Bambakou tape transcription
Belgium
Bulgaria
Celtic Folklorists
Ecuador
Egypt
English folklore
Europe
French-Canadian folktales
Box 90 Homosexuality
Japan
Latvia
Maine

(3 folders)

Melanesia
Oceania
Palestinian-Arab folktales
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Romania
Scotland
Toronto
Ukrainian folktales

(2 folders)

Miscellaneous research and fieldwork

(10 folders)

Notebooks
Gary, 1975 

(5 notebooks)

Region diaries, 1976-1977  

(3 notebooks)

California, 1950 
Cambridge

(2 notebooks)

Evanston

(3 notebooks)

Gary

(1 notebook)

Ireland

(1 notebook)

Stockholm

(1 notebook)

[Untitled]

(14 notebooks)

Subseries: University Materials - Administrative
Box 91 Archives of Traditional Music
Folklore Department and Institute

(6 folders)

History Department

(4 folders)

Indiana University

(5 folders)

Michigan State College
Subseries: University Materials - Class notes, student papers, dissertations
Box 91 Folklore and History class notes

(39 folders)

Box 92 Student papers

(22 folders)

Dissertations
Bianco, Carla
Fish, Lydia
Marshall, Howard Wright
Stone, Kay
Subseries: Miscellaneous - Conferences, Societies, etc.
Box 93 American Council of Learned Societies
African Folklore Conference
American Folklore Society
American Studies Association
American-Yugoslav seminars

(3 folders)

Anglo-American Folklore Conference

(4 folders)

Folk Festivals

(2 folders)

Folklore institute of America
Subseries: Miscellaneous - Personal File
Box 93 Calendars
Calling cards
Phillips Exeter Academy - Chess Club
Travel materials

(4 folders)

Miscellany
Subseries: Miscellaneous - Photographs
Box 93 Dorson and others
Miscellaneous photographs

(3 folders)

Subseries: Miscellaneous - Printed
Box 93 Clippings

(7 folders)

Arno Press catalogs and summary sheets

(2 folders)

Box 94 Book catalogs
Folklore Institute - newsletters and The Folklore Forum
Magazines

(2 folders)

Newsletters
Newspapers
Programs
Reprints by Dorson
Reprints by Others
Miscellany

(5 folders)

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