Accession
Number: 6
The James Watt Raine Ballad Collection
Papers: 1906-1989
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Online Catalog
Record (BANC)
Overview
History
Series I - Ballads and Songs, Loose
Leaves
Series II - Ballad Books
Series III - Short Stories, Plays,
and Book Manuscript
Series IV - A College
Course in Ballads Proposed
Series V - Lecture Notes
on Ballads
Series VI - Correspondence
Series VII - Biography
Related College Archives:
Series Description
1 Manuscript Box
| Series III |
Short Stories, Plays, and Book Manuscript |
Box 1, Cont. |
This series consists of a variety of writings by Raine including the typescript
of a projected book, Ways of Life of the Appalachian Mountain People;
short stories; and several manuscripts of original plays.
Box 1, Cont.
- Short stories and plays
- Typed book manuscript
| Series IV |
A College Course in Ballads Proposed |
Box 1, Cont. |
Notes pertaining to a proposed ballad course at Berea College which would
grant college credit for collecting ballads. Raine proposed a Berea College
course that would conclude with the students in his class collecting ballads
from the students’home territories for course credit.
Box 1, Cont.
- Ballad course - proposed
| Series V |
Lecture Notes on Ballads |
Box 1, Cont. |
Lecture notes related to a ballad course taught by Mr. Raine at Berea College
- an English course combined with Scottish ballads. Typed lecture notes and
related words and music to selected ballads.
Box 1, Cont.
- Lecture notes - ballads
| Series VI |
Correspondence |
Box 1, Cont. |
The correspondence is dated from 1902 to 1936. The major portion of the correspondence
in this series is between Raine and Berea College president, William G. Frost,
whom Raine addressed as “Willyum Gee”
Box 1, Cont.
- General correspondence
| Series VII |
Biography |
Box 1, Cont. |
This series consists of a short Raine biography contained in an unpublished
manuscript, “Berea’s Ballad Collectors: James Watt Raine, John
F. Smith, Katherine Jackson French, and Gladys V. Jameson,”by Sidney
Saylor Farr, dated 1980. A bibliographical listing of articles and books by
or about Raine is also included.
Box 1, Cont.
- Bibliographical material
Appendix
(The following is the list of the known contributors to the ballad collection.)
- Ambrose, Nathan
Baker, Ms. James
Banks, Ms. Lucy
Belchan
Best
Bolin, Ms. Jane
Brand, Earl
Carmack, Maud
Collins, Zurilda
Combs, Ms. Jennie L
Combs, Ms. Tarleton
Day, Mabal
Draghon, Fitzhugh
Evans, John F.
Hall, William
Henry, Ms. Violet
Jackson, Ms.
Jameson, G. V.
Jamieson Child III
Kilbourne, Maud Parsons
Lewis, Chester
Maples, Mimi Lulia
Moseley, Mimi Abby
N.F.A.
Ogg, Lillian
Parsons, Maude
Powell, Talitha
Rash, J. M.
Reynolds, Ruth
Riley, John
Roberts, Dudley
Romey, Orville
Ross, Andrew
Sharps, 100 Emp. Ballads
Smith, Professor John
Smith, Aunt Sarah
Taylor, Bristow
Whitt, Lauda
Whitt, Laura
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