Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4020
ANNABEL MORRIS BUCHANAN PAPERS
Inventory
Abstract: Annabel Morris Buchanan, composer, author, folk
music collector, and officer of the National
Federation of Music Clubs.
Correspondence, field collections, writings,
manuscript music, and other items documenting the
career of Annabel Morris Buchanan. Included is
correspondence with folklorists, musicians, poets,
composers, performers, publishers, National Federation
of Music Club officials, and personal correspondence.
Also included are field collections, mostly of songs
collected in Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Maine, West Virginia, and elsewhere,
between 1930 and 1960; writings, including three book
manuscripts and articles incorporating songs and tales
and describing Buchanan's collecting methods;
manuscript music, including hand-noted scores of
Buchanan's settings and compositions; a manuscript of
a book of folk songs from southwestern Virginia;
articles and clippings about Buchanan and about the
White Top Folk Festival; photographs of the White Top
Festival and the Virginia State Choral Festival, as
well as photographs of Buchanan's friends, family, and
professional associates and other items.
Online Catalog Terms:
Buchanan, Annabel Morris, 1888-1983.
Folk festivals--Photographs.
Folk festivals--Virginia.
Folk songs, English--Kentucky.
Folk songs, English--Maine.
Folk songs, English--North Carolina.
Folk songs, English--Tennessee.
Folk songs, English--Virginia.
Folk songs, English--West Virginia.
Folklore--Methodology.
Folklorists--United States.
Kentucky--Songs and music.
Maine--Songs and music.
Music--Manuscripts--Virginia.
National Federation of Music Clubs.
North Carolina--Songs and music.
Tales--Southern States.
Tennessee--Songs and music.
Virginia--Songs and music.
Virginia State Choral Festival.
West Virginia--Songs and music.
White Top Folk Festival.
Women folklorists--United States.
Size: About 13,000 items (17.0 linear feet).
Provenance: Received from Annabel Morris Buchanan in 1978;
from Dan Patterson of the Curriculum in Folklore
and from the Music Library at UNC-CH in February
1984 and September 1986; and Lyn Wolz of Ferrum,
Va., in March 1984.
Access: No restrictions.
Related Collections: John Blakemore (#4182).
Processing Note: This collection was processed with support
from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
or their descendants, as stipulated by United
States copyright law.
Table of Contents:
Biographical Note
Series Descriptions
Series 1. Correspondence and Related Items
Series 2. Field Collections
Series 3. Writings
Series 4. Manuscript Music
Series 5. Scrapbooks
Series 6. Open-Reel Tapes
Series 7. Pictures
Additions after 1978
Shelf List
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Annabel Morris Buchanan (22 October 1888-6 January 1983),
composer, writer, and folklorist, was born in Groesbeck, Tex.,
the daughter of the Reverend William Caruthers Morris and Anna
Virginia Foster. By seven, she was composing songs, writing
poems, reading music by sight, and playing the piano for her
father's services. At age 15, she won a scholarship to the
Landon Conservatory in Dallas and was graduated in 1896 with
highest honors in performance on piano and violin and theory and
composition. She taught private and college music classes at
Halsell College, Okla., 1907-1908, and at Stonewall Jackson
College, Abingdon, Va., 1909-1912. She married John Preston
Buchanan, a lawyer, writer, and Virginia senator, from Marion,
Va., in 1912 and moved to Roseacre, where they had four children.
After moving to Roseacre, Buchanan published numerous pieces
of music as well as articles and poetry. She organized a Marion
music club in 1923 and became president of the Virginia
Federation of Music Clubs in 1927. She began studying folk music
and, in 1928, organized the first Virginia State Choral Festival,
consisting of traditional folk performances. In 1931, she
organized the White Top Folk Festival in an attempt to open
traditional folk art to the public. Eleanor Roosevelt attended
the festival in 1933, but the festival was abandoned after 1939.
For these festivals, Buchanan collected thousands of songs,
tunes, dances, games, tales, charms, and sayings from people in
the mountain areas of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and
Kentucky. She published articles and gave lectures on the
festival and the study, collection, and use of folk music.
During this time, she also published her only book, Folk Hymns of
America.
Upon her husband's death in 1937, Buchanan sold Roseacre and
moved to Richmond, Va., with her two youngest children. She
taught music theory and composition and folk music at the
University of Richmond, 1939-1940; during the summers, at the New
England Music Camp, Lake Messalonskee, Oakland, Me., 1938-1940;
and Huckleberry Mountain Artists Colony near Hendersonville,
N.C., in 1941. She later moved to Harrisonburg, Va., and taught
at Madison College from 1944 to 1948. In 1951, Buchanan moved to
Paducah, Ky., and continued to write, compose, collect folklore,
and organize societies, such as the Southeastern Folklore
Society, the American Folklore Society, and the Kentucky Folklore
Society. She received honorary life memberships in the
Composers-Authors Guild, the Eugene Field and Mark Twain
Societies, and in the National Federation of Music Clubs. She
was also made an honorary citizen of San Jose California in 1954
when her choral work "Song of the Cherubim" was premiered at the
Montalvo Artists Colony. Later, she became archivist for the
folk music collecting project of the National Federation of Music
Clubs, where she served until 1963.
[For further information, see "Annabel Morris Buchanan: A
Profile of Her Contributions to Folklore," thesis by Carolyn
Lelear (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1978) and
biographical sketches in Who's Who of American, Women (5th ed.,
1967), Directory of American Scholars (5th ed., 1968-69), and
Dictionary of International Biography (8th ed., 1970).]
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 1. Correspondence and Related Items
1915-1972. About 4,500 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Professional and personal correspondence; speeches; and
articles, clippings, and printed material. Letters between 1915
and 1932 deal with the permission, acknowledgement, acceptance or
rejection of and payment for manuscripts, including songs, short
stories, articles, and her novel. There are also many letters
from concert singers and musicians who performed her songs. From
1933 to 1962, Buchanan corresponded with other folklorists about
a variety of topics including the collection of folk songs; their
work with professional societies; the publication of articles on
folk music; theories about the modal structure of folk music; and
research on folk hymns and her book, Folk Hymns of America.
Correspondence, 1937-1938, 1955-1958, and 1960, is chiefly
concerned with this book.
Correspondence pertaining to the White Top Folk Festival,
which Buchanan organized, 1931-1939, appears mainly from 1932 to
1936 and includes letters of invitation to lecturers and guests;
letters to John Blakemore, the festival's business manager;
publicity information; and lists of participants. Scattered
references to the festival are made in other years, notably in an
article written by John Blakemore in 1959 and in another article
written by Ulrich Troubetskoy for Virginia Cavalcade magazine in
1961.
Correspondence, 1958-1963, deals with Buchanan's position as
National Archivist for the National Federation of Music Clubs'
folk song collecting project. The club set up regional, state,
and local archives and a separate collection at the Archive of
American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Buchanan received
advice and contributions from librarians, members of the music
club, and folklorists, such as Rae Korson, librarian of the
Archive of American Folk Song, and Vera Dougan, Ada Holding
Miller, Mary Agnes Starr, Nora McGee, and Charles Iler, officers
of the NFMC. Correspondence is heaviest from 1961 to 1963.
The volume of correspondence decreases after 1963, when
Buchanan retired from the office of archivist. Letters after
1963 are concerned mainly with the copyright renewals of
Buchanan's songs. The final folder of correspondence contains
undated materials that are mostly personal letters and
publisher's rejection slips.
Those with whom Buchanan exchanged letters include D. K.
Wilgus, Olga Rosmanith, Sarah Gertrude Knott, William Kock, Anne
Grimes, Carleton Sprague Smith, MacEdward Leach, Louise Pound,
Richard Chase, Mary O. Eddy, Alan Lomax, Herbert Halpert, Wayland
Jand, John Blakemore, Samuel P. Bayard, E. C. Beck, Ernest La
Prade (of the National Broadcasting Corp.), Jimmie Driftwood
(James C. Morris), and Paul C. Brewster. There is also slight,
scattered correspondence from Maud Karpeles, Joe Hickerson,
Fannie Eckstrom, Frank Warner, John Powell, Alton C. Morris,
Helen Hartness Flanders, Percy Grainger, and George Korson.
Correspondence with three scholars, Phillips Barry, Anne G.
Gilchrist, and George Pullen Jackson, is filed at the end of
Series 2 with the materials they sent Buchanan.
This series also includes articles and clippings about
Buchanan and the White Top Folk Festival; texts of speeches;
programs and materials for courses given by Buchanan, many on
folk music; reviews of Folk Hymns of America; royalty statements;
poems written by others that Buchanan wanted to set to music;
writings of John P. Buchanan; articles by and about John Powell;
National Folk Festival programs; clippings about the Virginia
State Choral Festival; a file on awards Buchanan received; and
other materials.
Correspondence
Folder 1 1915-1925
2 1926-1928
3 1929-1930
4 1931-1932
5-6 1933
7 1934
8-9 1935
10-11 1936
12-13 1937
14-16 1938
17-19 1939
20-22 1940
23-25 1941
26 1942
27 1943
28-29 1944
30 1945-1946
31 1947
32 1948
33 1949
34 1950
35 1951
36 1952
37 1953
38-39 1954
40-44 1955
45-49 1956
50-63 1957
64-72 1958
73-79 1959
80-88 1960
89-95 1961
96-103 1962
104-115 1963
116 1964
117 1965
118 1966
119 1967-1969
120 1970
121 1971
122 1972
123 Undated
124-127 Speeches and Programs on Folk Music
128 Other Speeches and Programs
129-131 Course Materials
132-134 Printed Programs of Music Written and/or
Performed by Buchanan
135 Reviews of Folk Hymns of America
136 Royalty Statements
137 Lists of Library of Congress Recordings
138 Song Booklets from Folkways
139 Writings of John P. Buchanan
140 Poems to be Set to Music
141-143 Articles about Buchanan
144-147 Articles about White Top Festival
148 Articles by and about John Powell
149 Miscellaneous Articles
150-159 Photographs--removed to series
160-162 Clippings about Buchanan
163-164 Clippings about White Top Folk Festival
165 Clippings about Virginia State Choral Festival
166-173 Miscellaneous Clippings
174-176 Miscellaneous Materials
177 Awards
Series 2. Field Collections
1913-1963. About 3,500 items.
Original, mostly unpublished, folklore material, primarily
folk songs, with some copies of dance figures, tales, play-party
games, singing games, jump-rope and counting rhymes, children's
games and nursery rhymes, beliefs, herbal lore, charms and cures,
customs, proverbs, and folk speech. This material was primarily
gathered from white informants; the few songs collected from
African-Americans are filed separately. There is also
correspondence from folklorists.
Most of the material in this series was collected by Buchanan
beginning in 1930 and continuing until approximately 1954. There
are also a number of items solicited by her from other
collectors. These range in date from 1913 to 1963. A very small
number were taken from printed sources with the permission of
collector and publisher to be used in her book manuscripts.
Buchanan did most of her collecting in Virginia, her home
state for 30 years. She also collected a large amount of
material in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia,
and Maine. A large number of items are from Buchanan's family
tradition in Texas. Items that she collected from people at the
Huckleberry Mountain Artists' Colony in North Carolina and the
New England Music Camp in Maine, with items she solicited from
other collectors, extended her collection to encompass 48 states
by 1957.
Most of the songs have typed word sheets and hand copied tune
sheets. Tales and other materials are not typed but appear in a
hand-written collecting notebook located at the end of the series
kept by Buchanan on field trips in 1935, 1936, and 1950. Items
include the following information if available:
informant's name (often includes maiden name);
informant's home town, county and state;
collector's name;
date of recording;
local title used by informant;
Child title and number, Laws title and number, or other
standard title;
where informant learned the song and from whom;
family background of the informant;
type of melodic scale of tune (e.g., pentatonic);
and mode of melody, if not standard (e.g. Mixolydian).
Many of the items have a small hand-written note "Sent to LC."
This indicates that Buchanan made a copy of the tune and text of
the song and sent it to the Folk Music Archive of the National
Federation of Music Clubs, which was housed in the Archive of
American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Some items have
penciled-in notes refering to the location of the same or a
similar version in a printed collection.
The arrangement of this series was established by Buchanan;
this includes the numbering system and title of the sections.
The classification divides the material into five basic
categories:
IA Arranged by Child number;
IB-VIII Arranged by type of song;
IX Arranged by collector;
X-XX Arranged by place where collected;
XXI-XXV Miscellaneous materials.
A song may appear in more than one of these categories. For
example, a song might be filed in section I because it is a Child
ballad; in section IX because it was collected by someone other
than Buchanan; and in section X because it was collected in
Virginia. The original copy, taken down by hand in the field, is
usually filed in sections X to XX (which are subdivided by
individual or family); typed copies appear in other folders as
appropriate. The tune may appear in only one folder. Note that
XI-D is a "ballet" notebook given to Buchanan by one of her
informants. Multiple versions of a particular song are filed by
date of collection.
Sections XXI through XXV consist of collecting correspondence,
dance figures, African-American songs, Buchanan's family songs,
and notes and clippings for the book manuscript of Mountain
Magic. The correspondence between Buchanan and collectors and
informants is placed here because the letters contain or
accompany the texts and tunes of songs sent by these people to
help her with her collection and her book manuscripts. The
informants, NFMC officials, and folklorists whose entire
correspondence with Buchanan is filed here, include Phillips
Barry, Anne G. Gilchrist, George Pullen Jackson, Charles Iler,
Ross Whitemire, and Bob "Fiddler" Beers.
At the end of the series is filed a catalog of the songs in
the collection. This catalog was made by Buchanan and covers the
years 1930 through 1954. Note that, while the catalog is
helpful, it is not complete.
Subseries I-A. Songs Arranged by Child Number
1913-1963. About 400 items.
Folder 178 I-A-1 Child #1-6
179 I-A-2 Child #7-11
180 I-A-3 Child #12
181 I-A-4 Child #13-25
182 I-A-5 Child #26-52
183 I-A-6 Child #53-61
184 I-A-7 Child #62-72
185 I-A-8 Child #73
186 I-A-9 Child #74-77
187 I-A-10 Child #78-80
188 I-A-11 Child #81-83
189 I-A-12 Child #84
190 I-A-13 Child #85-111
191 I-A-14 Child #112-161
192 I-A-15 Child #162-249
193 I-A-16 Child #250-277
194 I-A-17 Child #278-299
195 I-A-18 Oldest Traditional Ballads after
Child
Subseries I-B through VIII. Materials Arranged by Type
1913-1963. About 1,200 items.
Folder 196 I-B-1 Later Imported Ballads, A-B
197 I-B-2 Later Imported Ballads, C-G
198 I-B-3 Later Imported Ballads, H-L
199 I-B-4 Later Imported Ballads, M-P
200 I-B-5 Later Imported Ballads, R-Z
201 I-B-6 Native American Ballads, A-K
202 I-B-7 Native American Ballads, L-Z
203 II-A-1 Traditional Lyric Songs, A
204 II-A-2 Traditional Lyric Songs, B-C
205 II-A-3 Traditional Lyric Songs, D-L
206 II-A-4 Traditional Lyric Songs, M-P
207 II-A-5 Traditional Lyric Songs, R-T
208 II-A-6 Traditional Lyric Songs, U-Z
209 II-B-1 Native Songs, A-F
210 II-B-2 Native Songs, G-L
211 II-B-3 Native Songs, M-Z
212 II-C-1 Humorous Songs, A-E
213 II-C-2 Humorous Songs, F-J
214 II-C-3 Humorous Songs, K-O
215 II-C-4 Humorous Songs, P-Z
216 II-D War Songs and Ballads
217 II-E Sea Songs and Shanties
218 II-F-1 Nursery Songs, A-E
219 II-F-2 Nursery Songs, F-G
220 II-F-3 Nursery Songs, H-R
221 II-F-4 Nursery Songs, S-Z
222 II-G Hunting and Drinking Songs
223 II-H Dance Songs
224 II-I-1 Dialogue Songs, A-J
225 II-I-2 Dialogue Songs, K-Z
226 II-J-1 Cowboy and Western Ballads, A-G
227 II-J-2 Cowboy and Western Ballads, H-Z
228 II-K Old Published Songs in Oral
Tradition
229 II-L Moralities and Confessions
230 II-M Parodies and Satires
231 II-N Rounds and Catches
232 II-O Mormon Folksongs
233 II-P Lumbermen's Songs
234 II-Q Mining Songs
235 II-R River Songs
236 III-A Accumulative Songs and Carols
(Secular)
237 III-B Carols (Sacred)
238 IV-A-1 Folk Hymns (Nearest Orthodox
Type), A-L
239 IV-A-2 Folk Hymns (Nearest Orthodox
Type), M-Z
240 IV-A-3 Folk Hymns in Folk Hymns of
America
241 IV-B Ballad Hymns
242 IV-C Camp-Meeting Hymns
243 IV-D White Spirituals
244 V-A-1 Singing Games, A-I
245 V-A-2 Singing Games, K-O
246 V-A-3 Singing Games, P-Z
247 V-B Play-Party Games
248 V-C Country Dance Figures
249 V-D Country Dance Tunes
250 VI-A Nursery Rhymes
251 VI-B Games Without Music
252 VI-C Rope-Jumping and Counting Rhymes
253 VII-A African-American Songs and
Spirituals
254 VII-B African-American Spirituals and
Shouts
255 VIII-A Superstition and Witchcraft
256 VIII-B Charms and Cures
257 VIII-C Proverbs, Folk Sayings, Traditions
Subseries IX. Songs Arranged by Collector
1913-1963. About 200 items.
Folder 258 IX-A-1 Davis Collection (Child 1-89)
259 IX-A-2 Davis Collection (Child 90-300)
260 IX-A-3 Davis Collection (Later Imported
Ballads, A-F)
261 IX-A-4 Davis Collection (Later Imported
Ballads, G-Z)
262 IX-A-5 David Collection (Humorous and
Nursery Songs)
263 IX-A-6 Davis Collection (Native American
Songs)
264 IX-A-7 Davis Collection (Folk Hymnody and
Carols)
265 IX-B Grove Collection (Page County,
Va.)
266 IX-C Handlon Collection (Great Smokies,
Tenn.)
Subseries X through XX. Materials Arranged by State
1913-1963. About 1,000 items.
Materials arranged by the state where collected. Original
copies of songs, taken down by hand in the field, are usually
filed in these sections, which are subdivided by individual or
family. Subseries XI is from Marion, Va.
Folder 267 X-A Copied from Old Manuscripts
268 X-B "Adventures in Virginia Folkways"
269 X-C Miscellaneous Notes
270 XI-A Wohlford-Blevins-Reedy Dance Tunes
(Marion, Va.)
271 XI-B Lillie William Family Dance Tunes
(Marion, Va.)
272 XI-C Elziebell Ferguson Family 1931-
1933 (Marion, Va.)
273 XI-D Bertha Dunsford 1931 (Marion, Va.)
274 XI-E Rouse-Chester-Harris-Wolfe 1931-
1934 (Marion, Va.)
275 XI-F Mrs. Lester Bishop Family 1931-
1932 (Marion, Va.)
276 XI-G Russell Family 1931-1933 (Marion,
Va.)
277 XI-H Mrs. Hattie Sims 1931-1933
(Marion, Va.)
278 XI-I Coley Family 1932 (Marion, Va.)
279 XI-J 1931 Smyth County, Va.
280 XI-K 1932-1935 Smyth County, Va.
281 XI-L John M. "Sailor Dad" Hunt 1933-
1935 (Marion, Va.)
282 XII-A Walter Gallebon 1931-1932 (Smyth
County, Va.)
283 XII-B Horton Barker 1931-1933 (Smyth
County, Va.)
284 XII-C Baldwin-Church-Sturgill-Trivett
1931-1936 (White Top)
285 XII-D-1 Old Ballets
286 XII-D-2 Old Ballets
287 XII-D-3 Old Ballets
288 XIII-A Washington Russell, Nelson
Counties, Va.
289 XIII-B Dr. W. P. Davis Collection,
Grayson County, Va.
290 XIII-C Grayson County, Va.
291 XIII-D W. E. Alderman Collection--Grayson
& Patrick Counties, Va.
292 XIII-E Bland and Wythe Counties, Va.
293 XIII-F Buchanan and Lee Counties, Va.
294 XIII-G Giles and Pulaski Counties, Va.
295 XIV-A Patrick and Henry Counties, Va.
296 XIV-B Franklin, Campbell and
Pittsylvania Counties, Va.
297 XIV-C Amelia County, Va. (Mrs. Hardaway)
298 XIV-D Jennie Davis Collection
(Rockingham County, Va.)
299 XV-A University of Richmond students
300 XV-B Richmond and Eastern Virginia
301 XV-C George Tucker Collection (Norfolk
and Eastern Va.)
302 XVI-A Rev. Levi Sims (Virginia and West
Virginia)
303 XVI-B-1 Cruise Family Collection 1931
304 XVI-B-2 Cruise Family Collection 1932-1935
305 XVI-C Blevins-Love-Shepherd (Johnson
County, Tenn.)
306 XVI-D LaPrade-Beaty (New York and
Western Tenn.)
307 XVI-E-1 Cumberlands 1935-1936 (Eastern
Tenn.)
308 XVI-E-2 Cumberlands 1935-1936 (Eastern
Tenn.)
309 XVII-A-1 Cumberlands 1935 (Eastern Ky.)
310 XVII-A-2 Cumberlands 1935-1936 (Eastern
Ky.)
311 XVII-A-3 Cumberlands 1950 (Eastern Ky.)
312 XVII-B-1 Cumberlands Superstitions and
Kentuckiana 1935-1936
313 XVII-B-2 Cumberlands Superstitions and
Kentuckiana 1935-1936
314 XVII-C Jean Thomas Collection
315 XVIII-A-1 North Carolina (General)
316 XVIII-A-2 Boone, Beech Creek, Watauga
County, North Carolina
317 XVIII-B Huckleberry Mountain, North
Carolina
318 XIX-A New England Music Camp Maine 1938-
1939
319 XIX-B McCann-Grover Maine
320 XX-A Crounse-Webster (Minn.), Buckley-
Beers (Mont.)
321 XX-B Other States (Arizona-Arkansas)
322 XX-C Other States (Delaware-Washington)
Subseries XXI through XXV. Miscellaneous Materials
1913-1963. About 500 items.
Folder 323 XXI-A Songs Recorded at Festivals and
Programs
324 XXII-A Dance Figures (Cruise, Mast) 1932
325 XXII-B Dance Figures 1937-1953
326 XXIII African-American Songs and
Spirituals
327 XXIV-A Morris-Foster Family Songs
328 XXIV-B Buchanan-Sheffey Family Songs
329 XXIV-C Phillips Barry Collection of Folk
Hymnody
330 XXIV-D Anne C. Gilchrist Collection
331 XXIV-E George Pullen Jackson Collection
332 XXIV-F-1 Charles Iler Collection
(Correspondence)
332A XXIV-F-2 Charles Iler Collection (Songs)
333 XXIV-G Ross and Alice Whitmire Collection
334 XXIV-H Songs from other collections
335 XXIV-I Correspondence and songs from NFMC
officials
336 XXIV-J Correspondence and songs from
Western States
337 XXIV-K Ada Holding Miller
338 XXV-A Herbs
339 XXV-B Old Recipes and Charms
340 XXV-C Virginia and the South
341 XXV-D Old Christmas
342 XXV-E Charms and Superstitions
343 XXV-F-1 Notes for "Mountain Magic" MS.
344 XXV-F-2 Notes for "Mountain Magic" MS.
345 XXV-F-3 Notes for "Mountain Magic" MS.
346 Catalog of MS. collection of
traditional song
347 Collecting notebook, 1935-1936,
1950
Series 3. Writings
1919-1961. About 2,500 items.
Writings by Buchanan arranged into four subseries: non-
fiction book manuscripts; articles on folklore; articles on
gardening; and short stories and miscellaneous writings. There
is no manuscript for Buchanan's only published book, Folk Hymns
of America. Magazine articles on the White Top Folk Festival are
filed in Series 1, and a book manuscript, "Southwest Virginia
Folk Songs" with settings of tunes Buchanan collected, is in
Series 4.
There follows a narrative description of the book-length
manuscripts; an annotated list of the folklore articles, arranged
alphabetically by title; a list of articles on gardening,
arranged alphabetically by title; a list of short stories and
miscellaneous writings, arranged by genre; and a folder list. An
article or short story may appear under more than one title, and
there are printed copies of many of the articles.
Subseries 3.1. Book Length Manuscripts
1934-1960s. About 400 items.
Three unpublished manuscripts by Buchanan: "White Top Folk
Trails," a compendium of folk songs and dance figures with an
emphasis on scholarly analysis and bibliography; "The Bough Was
Given to Me," an analysis of the relationship between folklore
and mythology, religion, and metaphysics in the folklore of the
mountain people of Virginia; and "Mountain Magic," a memoir of
Buchanan's collecting experiences and the individuals from whom
she received her information.
Buchanan worked on "White Top Folk Trails" from 1934 through
the 1960s. The one-volume first draft, which she wrote between
1934 and 1937, was submitted to Oxford University Press, which
declined to publish it due to the onset on the Second World War.
Then, because of her husband's death, Buchanan put it aside until
the mid-1940s. The manuscript grew to four volumes during the
1940s-1960s. Correspondence in Series 1 between 1936 and 1961
documents the development of this work.
The opening chapter covers the history and development of folk
music and its scholarship. In later chapters, she devoted much
space to folk hymns and dances. Texts and tunes of songs are
included, along with notes and references to other places where
the songs had been published. The original order of the
manuscript from Buchanan's files has been maintained, with
settings for the songs filed in Series 4 and many of the
collecting notes on which the volume filed in Series 2.
"The Bough was Given to Me" consists of non-musical material
gathered by Buchanan while researching "White Top Folk Trails,"
combined with music, dances, hymnody, superstitions, and
traditional customs that Buchanan collected later. In this
manuscript, based in part on her 1936 series "Adventures in
Virginia Folkways" for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Buchanan
concentrated primarily on the traditions, customs, and beliefs of
the mountain people and on her own ideas of the metaphysical and
mystical origins of folklore.
"Mountain Magic" is primarily a montage of Buchanan's
collecting experiences. EAch of the twelve chapters is a
vignette of her dealings with the mountain people, including
their songs, charms, and sayings. Photographs relating to this
manuscript are filed in Series 6.
Folder 348 "White Top Folk Trails"--Outline, Table of
Contents, Prologue
349 "White Top Folk Trails"--1936 draft, revised
1937
350a "White Top Folk Trails"--Chapters I-III
350b "White Top Folk Trails"--Chapters I-III, old
and new drafts
350c "White Top Folk Festival"--Chapters I-III,
publisher's copy
351a-b "White Top Folk Trails"--Notes on songs and
ballads
352a-b "White Top Folk Trails"--Notes on songs and
ballads Vol. 1
353a-b "White Top Folk Trails"--Notes on songs and
ballads Vol. 2
354a "White Top Folk Trails"--Notes on folk hymns
and carols
354b "White Top Folk Trails"--Preliminary notes on
folk hymns
355a "White Top Folk Trails"--American Country
Dances (publisher's copy)
355b "White Top Folk Trails"--Play-Party and
Singing Games (publisher's copy)
355c-d "White Top Folk Trails"--Dances and Games
355e "White Top Folk Trails"--Dances, Games, and
unfinished notes
356 "White Top Folk Trails"--Vol. 1, Texts and
tunes of traditional ballads and songs
357 "White Top Folk Trails"--Vol. 2, Texts and
tunes of traditional songs, native ballads,
and rounds
358a "White Top Folk Trails"--Bibliography
(original typed copy)
358b-c "White Top Folk Trails"--carbons
358d "White Top Folk Trails"--Discography
359 "White Top Folk Trails"--Miscellaneous notes
360 "White Top Folk Trails"--Settings (Now located
in folder 431)
361a "Bough was Given to Me"--Index, outline notes
361-b1 "Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters I-V, VIII
(publisher's copy)
361-b2 "Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters I-V, carbon
361c "Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters I-V, carbon
361d "Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters V-XIV
361e "Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters XV-XXI
361f "Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters XXII
361g "Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters XXIII-XXVII
362a "Bough was Given to Me"--Notes on hymnody
362b "Bough was Given to Me"--Notes on witchcraft
363a "Mountain Magic"--main text (publisher's copy)
363b "Mountain Magic"--Texts and tunes (publisher's
copy)
364a "Mountain Magic"--carbon copies and notes
364b-c "Mountain Magic"--first draft
Subseries 3.2. Folklore Articles
1933-1961. 16 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Manuscript or printed copies of articles written on folklore
by Buchanan. Note that most articles about the White Top Folk
Festival are filed in Series 1.
"Adventures in Virginia Folkways" is a series of eight articles
published in the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, 1936, about
Buchanan's experiences collecting folklore in southwestern
Virginia. These articles include ballads, songs, dances, play-
party games, beliefs, and superstitions. Printed copies are
filed in Series 5 and in Series 2, folder X-B.
"American Folk Hymnody" is an article from the International
Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (New York: Dodd, Mead, and
Co., 1939), pp. 596-601, which covers the origin, history, and
types of folk hymns.
"Ancient Pagan Rites in Virginia" is an unpublished article from
the 1930s or 1940s about the demonstration of Morris and sword
dances presented at the White Top Folk Festival and their origins
in England.
"Anglo-American Folk Music" is an article from the International
Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians that covers the types of music
found in America, including dances and play-party games, and
Buchanan's theory of the modal structure of folk music.
"Archive of American Folk Music" is a typescript of an article
published in Showcase, the magazine of the National Federation of
Music Clubs, January-February 1961. The published titles was
"Archives ... Keepers of the Past."
"The Cherry Tree Carol" is an article from Presbyterian of the
South, v. 113, 21 Dececember 1938, p. 11, which connected early
carols with mystery plays.
"Creation and Fall of Man: A Kentucky Ballad Carol" is an
article from the Kentucky Folklore Record, v. 1, no. 4, October-
December 1955, pp. 91-99, which points out parallels and
precursors of this religious ballad.
Buchanan wrote of review of Sharp's English Folk Songs from the
Southern Appalachians which was printed in Music Clubs Magazine,
undated. Printed copy only.
"A Folk Festival Above the Clouds" is an article on the White Top
Folk Festival and appeared in Holland's magazine, August 1933, p.
18, 26.
"The Function of a Folk Festival" is an article from Southern
Folklore Quarterly, March 1937, v. 1, no. 1, pp. 29-34, which
explains Buchanan's belief that a folk festival should preserve
the true character of folk music, not commercialize or exploit
it. Two reprint copies only.
"How the Ballad Grows" is a nine page typescript that may be a
chapter from one of her book manuscripts or an unpublished
article.
"Modal and Melodic Structure in Anglo-American Folk Music: A
Neutral Mode" is an address given to the International Congress
of Musicology in New York on 13 September 1939 and published in
Papers Read at the International Congress of Musicology at New
York, ed. by Arthur Mendel and Gustave Reese, (Richmond, Va.:
William Byrd Press, 1944), pp. 84-111.
"A Neutral Mode in Anglo-American Folk Music" is an abstract of
the above address, which was published in Southern Folklore
Quarterly, v. 4, no. 2, June 1940, pp. 77-92. Two reprint
copies.
Buchanan reviewed the book Old Songs and Singing Games by Richard
Chase. This is a typescript copy.
"On the Trail of Folk Song in the Virginia Mountains" is an
unpublished article about Buchanan's adventures in collecting
folk songs. It was probably written in the 1930s.
"Witchments, Charms Lures White Top's Faith" is an article from
the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, 2 December 1934, pp. 6-7, 10,
on beliefs superstitions, legends, and tales of the White Top
area. Printed copies only.
Folder 365 Articles on Folklore A-B
366 Articles on Folklore C-E
367 Articles on Folklore F-L
368 Articles on Folklore M
369 Articles on Folklore N-S
370 Articles on Folklore T-Z
371 American Folk Music Bibliography
Subseries 3.3. Gardening Articles
Undated. 27 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Articles on gardening, some based on Buchanan's extensive
gardens at Roseacre. Some articles appear under more than one
title.
Folder 372 "Achieving the Home Atmosphere through
Planting"
373 "Beauty and Gracein Climbing Vines"
"Building a New House--Or a Home?"
"Bulb Garndening Indoors"
"The Bulbs that Bloomed in the House that Jack
Built"
374 "The Children's Window Garden"
"The Confessions of an Amateur Gardener"
"Extra Fine for Forcing"
375 "Fall Planting for Spring Blooms"
"A Flower Garden Upstairs"
"Flowers for the Summer Porch"
"Foliage and Bloom for the New House"
"The Friendship Garden at Roseacre"
"Garden Planting for the New Home"
"Garden Shadows"
"Garden Shelter"
"Green Boudaries and Flowering Hedges"
376 "House Plants for the Amateur"
"The House that Jack Built"
"The Joys of Rock Gardening"
"Living in the Flower Garden"
377 "An Old-Fashioned Garden"
"Painting the Spring Garden Picture"
"Planting Around the New House"
"Rainbow Freesias--The Compulsory"
"Reliable Roses in Unreliable Climes"
"Shade and Shelter in the Garden"
Subseries 3.4. Articles, Fiction, and Short Stories
1919-1960s. About 100 items.
Articles, fiction (short novels), short stories, and poems.
Also included are bulletins from the National Federation of Music
Clubs (NFMC) to which Buchanan submitted articles; booklets
written by Buchanan for the NFMC; and three notebooks, 1919-1937,
with lists of works written by Buchanan and their publishing
history. The first notebook covers the years 1919 to 1936;
titles are listed alphabetically. The second covers the same
years, but the listings are by publisher. The third notebook
covers from 1937 on by title only.
Miscellaneous Articles:
Folder 378 "American Artists and Composers of the
Federation,"
"American Drama of the Present"
"Bud's Baby Band"
"Golden Hour in the Home"
"Hale and Hearty at One Hundred and Five"
"Human Fleas"
"Hunger that Needs More than Bread"
"Is Virginia Giving her People Good Music"
379 "Kodaking for Profit"
"Modern Music"
"Music in the Home"
"'Prove Me Now': B.C. 1000 or A.D. 2000?"
380 "Recollections of Groesbeck"
381 "Sherwood Anderson and the Virginia Federation
of Music Clubs"
"Sherwood Anderson Naturalized"
"Ten Minutes with Death"
"Unto Us a Child is Born"
"Virginia Choral Festival"
"Virginia Federation of Music Clubs"
382 Articles for the Richmond Community Fund"
383 Booklets for the National Federation of Music
Clubs: American Composers and Home Music
384 Issues of the Virginia Musician
Fiction:
385-386 "Adventures in Skyland" (juvenile novel)
387 "Jack and Jill in Skyland" (juvenile novel)
388 "Molly of Green Gardens" (adult novel)
389 "Snow-on-the-Mountain" (play based on a short
story of the same name)
Short Stories
390 "Baby Kitty Goes for the Mail"
"Baby Kitty Minds his Manners"
"Baby Kitty Runs Away"
391 "Come into the Garden"
"The Dark Presence"
"A Daughter of the Beverlys"
392 "The Enchanted Garden"
"The Enchanted Hour"
"The Experiences of a Methodist Minister's
Daughter"
393 "The Family"
"Fiddle or Dram"
"For President"
"For them that See"
"Fox-Fire"
"Gentleman's Decision"
"The Girl from the South"
"Goat Feathers"
394 "Hills of God"
"Homeward"
"Humpty-Dumpty"
"Hungry Mother"
"I Know whom I have Believed"
"Johnny's Birthday Book"
395 "A Little Child shall Lead Them"
"Lucifer Matches"
396 "Moses asks for a Sign"
"Mother Reduces"
"Mountain Laurel"
397 "Neil McNeil"
"Old Time Religion"
"The Pawn Shop"
"Possum in the Road"
"The Regeneration of Ewilder"
"Rise King Jesus"
398 "The Secret Garden"
"Snow-on-the-Mountain"
"Sprig of Mint"
399 "Talk About Musical Temperament"
"That's For Remembrance"
"Train up a Child"
400 "Until Seventy times Seven"
"The Vase of Amethyst"
"Wanted: A Funnybone"
"The Week Before Christmas"
"When Mother fell Away"
"The White Flagon: Or, the Wickedness of
Wealth"
401 Untitled Articles
402 Poems
403 Manuscript Notebooks
Series 4. Manuscript Music
1902-1953. About 3,000 items.
Sketches, notes, draft, and final copies of both folk and
original songs, secular and sacred, by Buchanan or collected
during her research. The arranging worksheets for her folk and
tune book hymn settings contain extensive notes on both written
and oral sources of the material based on her field research and
her large collection of early American sacred tune books.
Buchanan arranged these music manuscripts in generic groups.
She packaged major works, such as "Southwest Virginia Folksong,"
"The Legend of Hungry Mother," and her oratorio "Rex Christus,"
in bundles separate from other materials. Hand-written labels,
such as "some of my early songs and earliest piano compositions,
Texas and Oklahoma, 1902-1907" on other packages indicate other
pre-defined classifications.
Buchanan's musical interest often overlapped in time, with
many long-term interests cropping up again and again, and she
often reworked earlier compositions and arrangements to suit
current publishing demands. Nevertheless, there is enough
temporal "clustering" of works in any of the muscial areas of
major concern to Buchanan to make the chronological division a
useful one, instructive of the many stages in the development of
her career.
The first group of early piano compositions and other
instrumental pieces includes composition dated 1902-1907, the
period when Buchanan was studying at the Landon Conservatory in
Dallas, Tex. Many of these compositions have only sketchy
titles. Also included are later instrumental pieces, such as
fragments of folk-derived dances and pieces arranged by Buchanan
for piano and string orchestra. Original songs date from 1915 to
1953, but most were written in the 1920s and 1930s and composed
for lyrics written by others. Secular folk song settings were
arranged, for the most part, from 1931 to 1941. Most include
information on when, where, and from whom the song was collected
and are based on the early modal system of harmony.
"Southwest Virginia Folksong," an unpublished book manuscript
dated 1931, includes ballads, dances, and singing games. Their
order is listed in the book's table of contents. "The Legend of
the Hungry Mother," a choral ballad for three voices, piano, and
string quartet written in 1932, utilizes folk-derived material.
Buchanan's oratorio, "Rex Christus," is dated 1944 although she
began work in late 1943. Included in the papers are a
publisher's copy, a penciled version, and worksheets and
fragments. Material for her choral suite "The Moon Goes Down,"
written in 1961 and 1962, includes multiple versions, arranged
from most to least complete; worksheets; notes; and various
arrangements for "When De Moon Go Down," the African-American
spiritual which inspired the choral suite.
The arranging worksheets and notes for folk and tunebook hymns
reflect a concentrated effort, and their order could not be
disturbed without doing damage. Included are four voice
arrangements and extensive notes on the origins of hymns.
Collecting dates are 1931 to 1935, arranging dates from 1933 to
1937. Folk and tunebook hymn settings range from 1933 to 1955,
though most were arranged in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Included for many are source and modal information. Original
hymns dated from 1919 to 1971, though most are from the mid-1940s
to the mid-1950s. Some texts are scriptural while many were
written by other authors.
Finally there is a miscellaneous category that includes
workbooks bringing together works from several other categories;
piano exercises and other information from Buchanan's early
musical years; compositions by other composers; and songs written
by Grady Davis and collaborators.
Folder 404 Early Piano Compositions and Instrumental Pieces:
"Berceuse"
"Dreaming"
"From the Cotton Fields" (African-American
dances)
"Invention in Dorian Mode" (1939)
"Johnny Cope" (outline, dorian and lydian)
"Katherine"
"Lovey Mary Waltz"
"Norwegian Indian Slumber Song"
"Pensieroso"
"Salt River" (two country dances from
Southwest Virginia, mixolydian)
"Salut d"amour" (composed by Edwin Elgar,
arranged for piano and string orchestra by
Buchanan)
"Serenade"
"Sweet Memories"
"This is a Rag-Time Piece"
"Two-part Invention in Aeolian Mode"
Untitled piano piece in A
Untitled piano piece in D
Untitled piano piece in G
"Weaving Memories" (composed by Stella Mae
Dickinson)
Miscellaneous Fragments
405 Original Secular Songs A-C:
"After" verse: Margaret Widdenauer
"Almond Blossoms" verse: Alphonse de
Lamartine ("Sweethearts Always")
"Another Hour with Thee" verse: Jesse B.
Rittenhause
"April" verse: Grace Noel Crowell
"April Song" verse: Sara Teasdale
"As a Sea-Gull"
"As through the Land" verse: Lord Tennyson
(The Princess) (copyright 1921)
"At Dusking-Time"
"At Even" verse: Thomas S. Jones, Jr. (1929)
"The Bell" verse: Clifton Scollard
"Bittersweet" (fragment)
"Brown Leaves" verse: Florence Dickinson
Stearns (1932)
"Butterfly's Wing (My Garden)" verse:
Gertrude Martin Rohrer
"Click o' the Latch" verse : Nancy Byrd Turner
"The Colored Band" verse: Paul Lawrence
Dunbar
406 Original Secular Songs D-F
"The Dandelion" verse: Aldine First Reader?
"The Dark Cavalier" verse: Margaret Widdemer
(aeolian, dorian)
"Day" verse: Fannie Stearns Davis
"Day Moon (Waltz Song)" verse: Cole Young
Rice (revised 1943)
"Dedication (To One Overseas)" verse: Grace
Meredith (1945)
"Elegy in Aeolian Mode" including verse "Elegy
in Bronze" by S. Stephenson Smith
"Enough for Me" verse: Amelia Josephine Burr
"The First Bluebird" verse: James Whitcomb
Riley
"A Flower from Eden" verse: Lucy Larcom
"For His Sake" verse: Lewis Morris
407 Original Secular Songs G-I
"Good-bye" verse: Mary Clemmer
"Heart's Ease" verse: Mildred Howells
"Her Garden" verse: Sallie Sheppard Perkins
(1934, aeolian)
"Here are Roses" verse: Edgar C. Burnz
"Hills" verse: Arthur Guiterman
"How do I Love Thee? (I Love Thee)" verse:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"I Heard a Wood-Thrush" verse: Sara Teasdale
"I Love You" verse: Adelaide Anne Proctor
"If All the Skies were Sunshine" verse:
Henry Van Dyke (Blue Monday Book)
"The Immortal" verse: Cole Young Rice
"In a Garden of Dreams" verse: Elizabeth
Eggleston
"In Flanders Fields" (including notes)
408 Original Secular Songs J-L
"Joyous-gard" verse: Thomas S. Jones, Jr.
"Just Think (Star-Gleam)" verse: Robert W.
Service
"The Kiss of Desire" verse: John Boyle
O'Reilly (All That's Lovely)
"The Lamp" verse: Sara Teasdale (copyright
1921)
"Life" verse: Grace Noel Crowell (1928)
"Lift of a Wing" verse: Florence D. Stearns
(dorian, sketch)
"The Light of Love" verse: James Whitcomb
Riley (Songs o'Cheer)
"Little Black Sheep" verse: Edith M. Thomas
(ca. 1916)
"Little Boy Blue" verse: Eugene Field
"A Little House" verse: Nancy Byrd Turner
(copyright 1926)
"The Little Tavern" verse: Edna St. Vincent
Millay
"The Little Waves of Breffney" verse: Eva
Marie Booth (fragment)
"Longing" verse: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
(1938, aeolian)
"Love Comes Tonight" verse: Sara Teasdale
"Love-Time" verse: John Richard Moreland
409 Original Secular Songs M-O
"A May Madrigal" verse: Frank Dempster
Sherman
"A Memory" verse: Theodosia Garrison (All
That's Lovely)
"The Message" verse: Cole Rice Young
"Misty Moonlight" verse: Grace Noel Crowell
"Moods" verse: Sara Teasdale (copyright 1921)
"My Love a Lily Gave"
"Nocture" verse: Fannie Stearns Davis
"Not now, but in coming years..."
"Now I can Live" verse: Sara Teasdale
(copyright 1921)
"An Old Garden" verse: Nancy Little (1929)
"An Old Song" verse: Thomas S. Jones, Jr.
(see also "A Place of Dreams," folder
410)
"Old Virginia"
"An Old Woman of the Roads" verse: Padraic
Colum (1931, aeolian)
"The Open Door" verse: Grace Coolidge (1929)
"Our Own" verse: Margaret E. Songster (All
That's Lovely)
410 Original Secular Songs P-R
"Pierrot's Song" (phrygian, fragment)
"Pine Trees and the Sky" verse: Rupert Brooke
"A Place of Dreams" verse: Thomas S. Jones,
Jr. (see also "An Old Song," folder 409)
"A Prayer" verse: George Rostrevor
"Question" (mixolydian, fragment)
"The Redbird" verse: Emma Gray Trigg (1932)
"Retrospection" verse: Ray H. Grass
"The Rivers Flow" verse: Thomas Wolfe
"A Road Song" verse: Madison Cawein
"The Road to Crewe" verse: Florence Dickinson
Stearns (1932)
"The Rock-a-bye Lady" verse: Eugene Field
"Roofs" verse: Joyce Kilmer
"Roses at the Door" verse: Mary Carolyn
Davies (1927)
"The Runaway" verse: Cole Rice Young (Dr.
Hugh A. Clark's notes and corrections,
1921)
411 Original Secular Songs S-U
"Secrets" (1915 or 1916)
"Shadow Land"
"Sierra Night Song" verse: Paul C. Morris
music: Paul C. Morris and Buchanan
"The Silver Flute" verse: Harry Lee
"Sliding on the Ice" verse and music:
Buchanan
"Slumber Song" word only, verse: Louis Ledoux
"Somewhere, Love is Waiting for You" (1920s)
"Song at Dusk" verse: Leigh Hanes
"A Song at Sunset" verse: Edwin Markham
"A Song for Mary" verse: Grace Noel Crowell
"Song of the Winds"
"That Little Boy o' Mine" verse and music:
Buchanan (1927)
"That Old Virginia Waltz"
"There is Pansies" verse: Mildred Howells
"Three Children"
Three Songs from Alice in Wonderland verse:
Lewis Carroll:
"How Doth the Little Crocodile"
"The Mouse's Tale"
"The Lobster Quadrille"
Three Songs from Dixie verse: Eloise Earl
Dean
"Sallie Lou"
"A Southern Lullaby"
"The Screech Owl"
"Through the Window" verse: Florence Earle
Coates
"To ---" verse: Murrell Edmunds (1928)
"Two and a Child" verse: Jean Starr
Untermeyer (fragment)
Untitled verse: Frank L. Stanton (All That's
Lovely)
412 Original Secular Songs V-Z
"Wayfarer (A Mother to her Daughter)" also
title "Legacy (Wayfarer)" verse: Emma
Gray Trigg (phrygian)
"A Weather Interview" verse: Frank L. Stanton
"Wee Fiddle Moon" verse: Edith MacDonald
Grolisin (1929)
"When America Goes Dry" verse: Buchanan and
John Preston Buchanan
"Wild Geese" verse: Grace Noel Crowell (1929)
"Wings" words and music: Buchanan (1941,
mixolydian)
"Wood Song" verse: Sara Teasdale (copyright
1921)
"You and I"
"You came into my Life: a Memory" verse:
Theodosia Garrison
413 Original Secular Songs Collected Fragments
414 Secular Folk Song Settings
"At the Foot of Yonder's Mountain" (collected
in 1941, folk song)
"Come all you Fair and Tender Ladies" or
"Swallow Folk" (collected in 1932)
"Green Rushes" or "Mary of the Lowland"
(collected in 1933, dorian folk song)
"Greenwood Side" (collected in 1941, aeolian
traditional English-American ballad)
"The Ground Hog" (fragment)
"Haul Away, My Johnny-O" (traditional sea-
chanty collected in 1934, dorian)
"Lord Lovel" (collected in 1932, English-
American folk ballad)
"The Old Devil Flew Over the Mow (The Farmer's
Curst Wife)" (collected in 1932, dorian)
"Pretty Polly" (1934, aeolian English-American
traditional folk ballad)
"The True Lover's Farewell" (1931)
"The Two Brothers" (collected in 1941, dorian
traditional folk ballad)
"Weevily Wheat" (1931, mountain folk song)
Fragments and outlines
415 Southwest Virginia Folksong:
Songs and Ballads (Settings):
"One Morning in May"
"Old Joe Clark"
"Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender" (2 copies)
"The Ground Hog" (dance song)
"The Gypsy Girl"
"Black-eyed Susy" (dance song)
"Pretty Saro"
"Jack went A-Sailing" (The Rich Merchant)
"The Dying Californian"
"What'll I do with the Baby-O?" (nursery)
"The Returned Sailor" (The Broken Token)
"Lady Gay" (The Wife of Usher's Wall)
"Spare me the Life of Georgie (Geordie)"
"I'll not Marry A-Tall"
"The Man that Lived in the Woods"
"Katie Moray"
"Lonesome Road"
"Old Jimmie Sutton" (dance song)
"John Hardy"
"Frog went A-Courtin')
"The Twelve Deciples" (The Ten
Commandments) (accumulative song)
"Lord Bateman" (Young Beichan)
"Gypsy Davy"
"The Dying Cowboy"
"George Collings" (Lady Alice)
"Jesus Born in Bethlea" (carol)
"I Wish I was Single Again"
"I Wish I was a Single Girl Again"
"Barnyard Song" (humorous accumulative
song)
"The Two Brothers"
"My Old Mistis"
"Pretty Polly" (The Cruel Ships's
Carpenter)
"Goin' Down Town"
"The Bold Sea-Captain"
"The Hangman" (Maid Freed from the
Gallows)
"Hard Times"
"At the Foot of Yonder's Mountain"
"The Old Man that Made His Will" (The Old
Miller)
"The Four Marys" (Mary Hamilton)
"Sweet William"
"Rollie Trudum"
"The House Carpenter" (The Daemon Lover)
"Mollie Bon" (The Shooting of his Dear)
"The Little Mohee"
"Weevily Wheat" (dance song)
"Cold Icy Mountain"
"Cripple Creek" (dance song)
"The Sisters"
"Brother Green"
"Soldier, Won't you Marry Me?"
"The Old Woman on the Seashore"
"Swapping Song" (humorous children's song)
"Hi-Diddle-I-Fy" (The Farmer's Curst Wife)
"James Andrew" (Lord Randal)
"Mollie Ban"
"The Rejected Lover"
"Omie Wise"
"Barbara Allen" (Barb'ry Ellen)
"The Rich Old Lady"
"Awake, Arise, You Drowsy Sleeper"
"The Shoemaker"
"Edward"
"Billy-Boy" (nursery song)
"On Top of Old Smoky"
"Nickety Nackety" (nursery song)
"Poor Betsy"
"Sourwood Mountain" (dance song)
"Sing Song Sallie" (Frog in the Well)
"Who Will Shoe Your Feet?" (fragment)
Dances:
"Darling Cora"
"Arkansas Traveller"
"Cluck Old Hen" (dorian and mixolydian)
"Greasy String"
"Sugar Hill"
"Bonaparte's Retreat"
"Water Bound"
Singing Games:
"Go In and Out the Window"
"The Miller"
"The Battle of Mexico"
"Chicky-ma-Craney Crow"
"Up the Green Meadows"
"Drop the Hankerchief"
"The Mulberry Bush"
"Green Grows the Willow Tree"
416 Choral Ballad The Legend of Hungry Mother
417 Folk and Tune Book Hymns:
Arranging Worksheets and Notes:
"The Female Convict," "Babylon is Fallen,"
"Hicks' Farewell," and "The Babe of
Bethlehem"
"Parting Hymn (Minister's Farewell)" and
"Alabama"
"King of Peace," "Saw Ye My Savior
(Crucifixion)," and "Expression"
"Calvary's Mountain," "Retirement,"
"Farewell," and "Sweet Prospect"
"The Sun-Bright Clime" and "Charlestown"
"Evening Shade," "King of Peace,"
"Wondrous Love," and "Saw Ye My
Savior"
"Jordan's Shore" and "Wicked Polly"
"The Cherry Tree Carol" and "The Gospel
Ship"
"Phoebus," "Tribulation," "Road's-Town,"
and "Christmas Hymn (A Carol)"
"O Thou in Whose Presence," "Promised
Land," "Rise, My Soul," and "Kay"
"In Evil Long I Took Delight," "O Thou in
Whose Presence," "Idumea," and "The
Converted Thief"
"Social Band"
"King of Peace," Jesus Born in Bethlea,"
and "Farewell"
"Parting Hymn (Minister's Farewell),"
"Saints Bound for Heaven,"
"Samanthra," "Tender Thought,"
"Farewell," "Garden Hymn,"
"Exultation," New Jordan," "The Hebrew
Children," and "Jesus Born in Bethlea"
"Tender Thought," "Garden Hymn,"
"Exultation," and "New Jordan"
"Saw Ye My Savior," "Evening Shade,"
"Children of the Heavenly King," and
"Alabama"
"Poor Wayfaring Stranger," "Immensity," "I
Will Arise," "Weeping Savior," "A
Female Convict," "Sweet Prospect," and
"Retirement"
"The Cherry Tree Carol," "The Promised
Land," "Condescension," "Sweet
Heaven," "Mercy's Tree," "Young People
Who Delight in Sin (Wicked Polly),"
"Jordan's Shore"
"The Gospel Ship"
"Salutation" and "Expression"
"Sweet Heaven," "Garden Hymn,"
"Exultation," and "Watts' Lyre"
"Samanthra" and "Alabama"
"Saints Bound for Heaven" and "Samanthra"
"Redeeeming Grace" and "How Tedious and
Tasteless the Hours"
"Calvary's Mountain"
"Immensity" and "I Will Arise
(Restoration)"
"The Rose Tree" and "Broad is the Road
that Leads to Death"
"Windham" and "Zion's Hill"
"Drooping Souls" and "Portsmouth"
"Consolation," "Like Noah's Weary Dove,"
"Transport," and "The Sun-Bright
Clime"
"Wings of the Morning" and "Alverson"
"Heavenly Union" and "Christian Union"
"Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "Christian
Race"
"Bayrah" and "Suffering Savior"
"Land of Rest," "Rome," "Suffield," and
"Evening Shade"
"Morning Trumpet" and "Pisgah"
"Farewell," "Salvation," "Saints Bound for
Heaven," and "Evening Shade"
"Canaan" and "Zion's Security"
"Pensive Dove," "Light," "Jesus is my
Friend," and "Bright Canaan"
"Immensity," "Tender Thought," "I Will
Arise," and "Calvary's Mountain"
"Salutation," "Expression," "Columbia,"
"Babe of Bethlehem," "Idumea," "The
Converted Thief," "In Evil Long I Took
Delight," "O Thou in Whose Presence,"
and "Calvary's Mountain"
"Jesus Born in Bethlea" and "The Hebrew
Children"
"Calvary's Mountain," "O Thou in Whose
Presence," and "New Jordan"
"The Babe of Bethlehem," "Babylon is
Fallen," and "Hick's Farewell"
Lyric Sheets:
"Wondrous Love"
"Pensive Dove"
"O Jesus My Savior"
"Wings in the Morning"
"Like Noah's Weary Dove"
"Garden Hymn"
"Vale of Sorrow" and "Oh, Land of Rest"
418 Folk and Tune Book Hymns Settings
"The Babe of Bethlehem" (from The Southern
Harmony, 1835, dorian)
"Break Thou the Bread of Life" verse: Mary A.
Lathbury, 1977
"Dorset (Return, O God of Love)" (Psalm 90)
"Dunlap's Creek" (from The Southern Harmony,
ionian)
"The Female Convict" (three verses, aeolian)
"Garden Hymn" (from Buchanan's parents)
"Jerusalem, My Happy Home" (lyrics only)
"Jesus Born in Bethlehem"
"Land of Rest" (1938)
"The Lord is My Shepherd" (Dyer's Psalmist,
Ky., 1852)
"Mary through a Thornwood's Gone" (Der
Zupfgeigenhause, aeolian, 1938)
"Old Chester" (The Geneva Psalter, 1551,
aeolian, 1943)
"Old 107th" (Psalm 107)
"Old 124th" (Ainsworth Psalter, 1612)
"On Jordan's Stormy Banks"
"Rockbridge" (Psalm 92, 1943)
"Somerset" (The Christian's Harp, 1832,
dorian, 1941)
"Sweet Rivers" (Buchanan's father, 1955)
"The Ten Commandments" (mixolydian, 1931)
"Wondrous Love"
"Zion's Hill" (fragment)
Fragments
419 Original Hymns
"Advent" verse: Leroy V. Brant (1955)
"Behold, He That Keepeth Israel" (Psalm 121)
"Benediction" verse: Nora Dixon McGee (1960)
"Days of Days" verse: Leroy V. Brant (1955)
"The Eternal God is Thy Refuge" (anthem, 1943)
"I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes" Psalm 121
(fragment)
"In My Father's House" verse: John XIV (1929)
"Into the Woods My Master Went" (fragment)
"Lord, I Depend on You" words and music:
Constance T. Watson, arrangement:
Buchanan
"O Lord of Hosts" (Choral Passacaglia, 1939)
"Psalm Sunday" verse: Leroy V. Brant
(aeolian, 1955)
"Psalm 24" (1944)
"Rejoice, My Soul" verse: Vivian Laramore
Rader (1955)
"Russian Hymn" verse: Alexis Livoff
"Song for Joy (Chant de Joie)" verse: Henry
Vaughn (1621-1695) (1942)
"Song of Thanksgiving" verse: Tharon Liskey
"Song of the Cherubim" verse: Andrew M. Bruce
(1942)
"Veni Jesu" verse: Lucile Shanklin Hull
(1955)
"The Wilderness Shall Be Glad" verse:
Biblical (1946)
Fragments
420 Oratorio: "Rex Christus" (publisher's copy)
421 Oratorio: "Rex Christus" (pencil score)
422 Oratorio: "Rex Christus" (worksheets and notes)
423 Choral Suite: "The Moon Goes Down" (orchestral
version)
424 Choral Suite: "The Moon Goes Down" (orchestral
score missing Part I)
425 Choral Suite: "The Moon Goes Down" (for four
voices, missing Part IV)
426 Choral Suite: "The Moon Goes Down" (workbook)
"Virginia Secedes from the Union" (mixolydian)
"When De Moon Go Down" (spiritual, 1962)
"An Era is Ended" (1961-1962)
"War Declared: Richmond 1861" (from poem by
Gertrude Boatwright Clayton, 1961)
"Picket's Charge: Gettysburg" (1961)
"Requiem for a Dead Soldier" verse: Elizabeth
Palmer Tyler (1961)
"Drums in Spring" verse: Gertrude Boatwright
Clayton from Sunday in Virginia (1962)
"Grant and Lee at Appomattox" verse: Gertrude
Boatwright Clayton from Sunday in Virginia
(1962)
"Lincoln" (1962)
"After Appomattox" (1962)
"Lee and Shenedoah"
"Thou Wilt Light my Candle" (Psalm 39, 1962)
"Return" verse: Emma Gray Trigg (1962)
"The Great Magnolia Tree" verse: Gertrude
Boatwright Clayton (1962)
"Lead Our America" verse: Emma Gray Trigg
("Aftermath") and Elizabeth Palmer Tyler
("E Pluribus Unum" from The Quiver Full)
(1962)
"Virginia Secedes" (fragment)
427 Choral Suite: "The Moon Goes Down" (notes, copies
of texts, musical sketches, outlines)
428 Choral Suite: "The Moon Goes Down" (notes and
discarded excerpts)
429 "When De Moon Goes Down": Carolina African-
American Spiritual (1953)
430 Miscellany
Manuscript notebook
"America (String Quartet)"
"In My Father's House" (1929)
"A Memory" verse: Theodosia Garrison
"The Little Waves of Breffny" (1931)
"Requiem" verse: Elizabeth Palmer Tyler
(The Quiver Full, 1949)
Works from "The Blue Danube Waltz" by Strauss
"Carol," "The Secret," and "Wee Fiddle Moon"
"The Eternal God is thy Refuge," "Song at
Dusk," "The Dawn of Easter," "My Soul is
Exceedingly Sorrowful," and "Alleluia"
Exercises 1-8 (1932)
"Eyes of Flame" words and music: Grady Davis
"Homeward" words and music: Grady Davis
"Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee" (Bach),
Kinderscenen (Schumann), "Traumerei"
(Schumann), and "Andate" (Kuhleau)
"Plea" verse: Van Dale, music: Grady Davis
"The Spirit of the Wild" words and music:
Grady Davis
"Wind Song" verse: Eunice Tietjens, music:
Grady Davis (1920)
Fragments
Examples of musical figures from Debussy,
Scriabin, and Halst
List of Pieces learned by Buchanan at Landon
Conservatory, first year, 1904-1905
431 White Top Folk Trails (settings) (from folder 360,
series 3)
Series 5. Scrapbooks
1927-1936. 2 items.
V-4020/S-1 Volume S-1: 1927-1929, 250 pp. Scrapbook of the
Virginia Federation of Music Clubs consisting of
clippings, programs, and photographs about
Buchanan during her tenure as president of the
Virginia Federation, and about other officials and
activities organized.
V-4020/S-2 Volume S-2: 24 May-12 July, 1936, 250 pp.
"Adventures in Virginia Folkways," a series of
eight articles by Buchanan published in the Sunday
magazine section of the Richmond (Va.) Times-
Dispatch.
Series 6. Open-Reel Tapes
1963 and undated. 3 items.
FT 840 Dubs from discs: Myrtle Stout, S. F. Russell,
Annabel Buchanan. Recorded for or by Annabel
Morris Buchanan.
FT 841 Ohio River songs, spirituals, brush arbor songs
sung by "Uncle Jim" Drain of Paducah, Ky.
Recorded 12-13 August 1963.
Old time fiddle tunes played by Clifton Ferguson,
West Paducah, Ky. Recorded by William Henry
Young.
FT 842 Traditional songs, ballads, Old Regular Baptist
"lining out" hymns, sung and discussed by William
Henry Young, originally of Knott County, Ky.
Recorded in 1963.
Series 7. Pictures
1930s-1950s. About 140 items.
P-4020/Folders 1-2 Photographs of Annabel M. Buchanan alone
and in groups.
P-4020/Folders 3-4 Signed portrait photographs addressed to
Buchanan from friends and acquaintances.
P-4020/Folder 5 Photographs of musicians from the White
Top Folk Festival.
P-4020/Folder 6 Photographs of Eleanor Roosevelt at the
White Top Folk Festival.
P-4020/Folder 7 Photographs of people at the White Top
Folk Festival.
P-4020/Folder 8 Photographs of people at the Virginia
State Choral Festival.
P-4020/Folders 9-10 Photographs of identified people.
P-4020/Folder 11 Photographs of unidentified people.
P-4020/Folder 12 Photographs of people at a square dance at
the University of Richmond.
P-4020/Folder 13 Photographs of parking lot and tents at
the White Top Music Festival.
P-4020/Folder 14 Photographs and postcards of scenic views
of White Top Mountain.
P-4020/Folder 15 Photographs of Buchanan's home, Roseacre,
in Marion Va.
P-4020/Folders 16-17 Photographs of scenic views in Virginia,
Kentucky, and North Carolina.
ADDITIONS AFTER 1978
Addition of February 1984 (Acc. 84017)
Size: 30 items.
Dates: 1961-1963.
Provenance: Received from Dan Patterson of the Curriculum in
Folklore, UNC-CH.
Description:
Folder 432 Manuscript copies of eight songs and ballads from
Tennessee; seven from Kentucky; and lists of
titles on two reels of tape sent to the National
Archive of American Folk Music at the Library of
Congress.
Folder 433 Partial record (lists and notes) of material sent
by Buchanan to the National Archive of American
Folk Music at the Library of Congress from 1961 to
1963.
Addition of September 1986 (Acc. 86123)
Size: 1 item.
Dates: 1820s.
Provenance: Received from the Music Library, UNC-CH.
Description:
Folder 434 Manuscript shape note-tunebook, ca. 1820s, 108
pp., with hymn tunes and texts. Brief notes
included in the volume about travels and distances
suggest that the residence of the recorder of
these tunes probably was Middletown, Butler
County, Ohio. The inside front cover is
inscribed, "Annabel Morris Buchanan, 'Roseacre,'
Marion, Va."
Addition of March 1984 (Acc. 84032)
Size: 6 items.
Dates: Undated.
Provenance: Received from Lyn Wolz of Ferrum, Va.
Folder 435 Six card boxes containing an index to songs in the
Annabel Morris Buchanan Papers. This index was
prepared in the course of research for "White Top
Folk Trails: Annabel Morris Buchanan's Folk Music
Legacy," by Lyn Wolz (master's thesis, UNC-CH, May
1984). Folder 435 contains an explanation of how
to use the index and the six boxes are numbered
and located after this folder.
SHELF LIST
Box 1 Series 1. Correspondence and Related
Items (folders 1-19)
Box 2 Series 1. Correspondence and Related
Items (folders 20-42)
Box 3 Series 1. Correspondence and Related
Items (folders 43-65)
Box 4 Series 1. Correspondence and Related
Items (folders 66-88)
Box 5 Series 1. Correspondence and Related
Items (folders 89-113)
Box 6 Series 1. Correspondence and Related
Items (folders 114-133)
Box 7 Series 1. Correspondence and Related
Items (folders 134-146)
Box 8 Series 1. Correspondence and Related
Items (folders 147-173)
Box 9 Series 1. Correspondence and Related
Items (folders 174-177)
Series 2. Field Collections
Subseries I-A. Child Number (folders 178-195)
Subseries I-B to VIII. Type (folders 196-198)
Box 10 Subseries I-B to VIII. Type (folders 199-231)
Box 11 Subseries I-B to VIII. Type (folders 232-257)
Subseries IX. Collector (folders 258-263)
Box 12 Subseries IX. Collector (folders 264-266)
Subseries X to XX. State (folders 267-284)
Box 13 Subseries X to XX. State (folders 285-309)
Box 14 Subseries X to XX. State (folders 310-322)
Subseries XXI to XXV. Misc. (folders 323-326)
Box 15 Subseries XXI to XXV. Misc. (folders 327-339)
Box 16 Subseries XXI to XXV. Misc. (folders 340-347)
Series 3. Writings
Subseries 3.1. Book Manuscripts (folder 348)
Box 17 Subseries 3.1. Book Manuscripts (folders 349-350c)
Box 18 Subseries 3.1. Book Manuscripts (folders 351-353b)
Box 19 Subseries 3.1. Book Manuscripts (folders 354-355e)
Box 20 Subseries 3.1. Book Manuscripts (folders 356-358d)
Box 21 Subseries 3.1. Book Manuscripts (folders 359-361c)
Box 22 Subseries 3.1. Book Manuscripts (folders 362-363b)
Box 23 Subseries 3.1. Book Manuscripts (folders 364a-c)
Subseries 3.2. Folklore Articles (folders 365-371)
Box 24 Subseries 3.3. Gardening Articles (folders 372-377)
Subseries 3.4. Articles, Fiction
and Short Stories (folders 378-384)
Box 25 Subseries 3.4. Articles, Fiction
and Short Stories (folders 385-394)
Box 26 Subseries 3.4. Articles, Fiction
and Short Stories (folders 395-403)
Box 27 Series 4. Music Manuscripts (folders 404-417)
Box 28 Series 4. Music Manuscripts (folders 418-431)
Box 29 Additions after 1978 (folders 432-435)
(index boxes 1-4)
Box 30 Additions after 1978 (index boxes 5-6)
Items separated:
V-4020/S-1; /S-2
FT 840-842
P-4020/Folders 1-17