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Fletcher Collins Jr. collection

LC Control No.:	2004659978
Type of Material:	Archival Manuscript Material (Collection)
Main Title:	Fletcher Collins Jr. collection, 1935-1944 / collected by Fletcher Collins.
Related Names:	Collins, Fletcher. » More like this
Description:	manuscripts:: ca. 1000 leaves. sound recordings:: 33 sound discs : analog ; 12 in.
Organized/Arranged:	Organized by format into the following series: I. Manuscripts; II. Sound Recordings.
Access Advisory:	Duplication of the collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.
Biographical/Historical Data:	Fletcher Collins Jr. was born on November 19, 1906. He graduated from Yale University (Ph.B. 1928, Ph.D. 1934) and was a professor of English at Elon College in North Carolina (1936-42) and professor of Theater at Mary Baldwin College (1946-1977). A folksong collector, Collins made twenty-one disc recordings in March 1939 (AFS 2235, AFS 3769-3788) under the auspices of the WPA Joint Committee on Folk Arts and deposited them that year at the Library of Congress. In fall 1941, as part of the Library's equipment loan program, Collins borrowed a Presto disc recorder and blank discs. During November and December 1941 he made fifteen disc recordings in Brown Summit (AFS 6491), Burlington (AFS 6365-6366, perhaps 6494), Elon College (AFS 6492-6493), and Greensboro (AFS 6482-6486), North Carolina; and in Fancy Gap, Virginia (AFS 6487-6490).
Summary:	The Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection documents the Anglo-American folksong collecting activities of Fletcher Collins Jr. from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. It includes manuscript materials, correspondence, transcriptions of songs and tunes, and sound recordings.
Notes:	Two discs made by Fletcher Collins in Burlington, N.C., Dec. 8, 1941, were in response to Alan Lomax's call for "man-on-the-street" reactions to the Pearl Harbor attacks the day prior. They are included in a separate American Folklife Center collection (AFC 1941/004: The Man-on-the-Street Interviews Collection). Search for these and other sound recordings (most are dated 1933-1950) in selected collections from the American Folklife Center in the online resource link: Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog from the American Folklife Center.
Indexes:	Bibliographic information for titles in this collection is found in the online resource link: Audio titles in the Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection.
Finding Aids:	Finding aid available in the Folklife Reading Room and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.
Cite as:	Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection (AFC 1939/003), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Acquisition Source:	Fletcher Collins; Donation; 1939, 1942, 2002.
Subjects:	Collins, Fletcher--Ethnomusicological collections. » More like this Folk songs, English--North Carolina. » More like this Folk songs, English--West Virginia. » More like this Folk songs, English--Virginia. » More like this Folk music--North Carolina. » More like this Folk music--Virginia. » More like this Folk music--West Virginia. » More like this Folk music--Appalachian Region. » More like this Folk songs, English--Appalachian Region. » More like this Fiddle tunes. » More like this Ballads, English--Appalachian Region. » More like this Hymns, English--Appalachian Region. » More like this Children's songs, English--Appalachian Region. » More like this
Form/Genre:	Field recordings--Appalachian Region. » More like this Manuscripts. » More like this Correspondence. » More like this Transcripts. » More like this Sound recordings. » More like this
Local Shelving No.:	AFC 1939/003 AFS 2235, AFS 3769-3788 AFS 6482-6493 LWO 4872, reels 142B, 245B-246; reels 413B-414A (preservation tapes)
Geographic Area Code:	n-us-nc n-us-wv n-us-va
Repository:	DLC-AFC Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610
Links:	Audio titles in the Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.af000112 Finding aid: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af006005 Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog from the American Folklife Center: http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/afccards/afccards-home.html