The James Madison Carpenter Collection of British Folk Plays

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements I owe thanks to Julia Bishop for her detailed comments on a draft of this paper. Acknowledgements are due to the National Endowment for the Humanities for their continuing support of our work; and to the British Academy who funded some of the research on which this paper is based. The staff of the American Folklife Center have been of considerable help ever since we started this project. I would also like to thank Norman Peacock for his help in tracing the Carpenter/Karpeles link and Paul Smith for information on the London printed chapbooks. Finally, I would like to thank my colleagues, David Atkinson, Julia Bishop, Elaine Bradtke, Tom McKean and Bob Walser, for all their cooperation, and company, over this last ten years. Notes [1] Information on the life and career of J. M. Carpenter is taken from Bishop (1998 Bishop, Julia C. 1998. ‘Dr Carpenter from Harvard College in America’: An Introduction to James Madison Carpenter and his Collection. Folk Music Journal, 7(4): 402–20. [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 402–20) and from Alan Jabbour's interview with Carpenter in 1972. Jabbour's interview was conducted at Booneville, Mississippi, 27 May 1972 (Jabbour 1972 Alan, Jabbour. Interview with James Madison Carpenter, Booneville, Miss., 27 May 1972. AFC 1972/001 (original), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. VWML Cassettes 121-2 (copy), Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, London [Google Scholar]). The original tapes of the interview are part of The James Madison Carpenter Collection, Archive of Folk Culture, The American Folklife Center (AFC), Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (AFC 1972/001). Copies of the tapes are held at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, London (VWML Cassettes 121–2). Unless stated otherwise, Carpenter quotations in this article are from this interview. Excerpts from the interview and other material from The James Madison Carpenter Collection in this article are published with the permission of The American Folklife Center. [2] The James Madison Carpenter Collection, Archive of Folk Culture, The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, AFC 1972/001 MS pp. 06379-06382. [3] The Folk Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society merged in 1932 whilst Carpenter was in England. [4] Typescript, “British and American Traditional Folk Material.” AFC 1972/001. MS p. 00005. [5] Letter dated 10 November 1954. I am grateful to Dr Peacock for supplying me with a copy of this letter. [6] Outline prospectus. AFC 1972/001 MS pp. 12610-12611. [7] See http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/carpenter/; INTERNET [accessed 28 January 2011]. Finance for this project was provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Board under its Resource Enhancement Scheme. [8] See Peacock et al. (2003 Peacock, N., Cass, E., Cawte, E. C., Millington, P. T., Smith, P. S. and Schofield, D. 2003. “Discussion about Alex Helm and his Collection”. In Folk Drama Studies Today. Papers given at the International Traditional Drama Conference 19–21 July, 2002, University of Sheffield, England, Edited by: Cass, Eddie and Millington, Peter. 178Sheffield: Traditional Drama Research Group. [Google Scholar], 178). [9] Outline prospectus. AFC 1972/001 MS pp. 12610-12611. [10] Lecture text—typescript. AFC 1972/001, MS p. 10893. [11] This chart is based on information contained in Cawte (1979 Cawte, E. C. “A Guide to English Ritual Drama in the Carpenter Manuscripts.” Unpublished typescript, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, London 1979–80 [Google Scholar]–80). This is an unpublished typescript guide to the contents of some of the Carpenter microfilms in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, London. [12] Draft letter from Carpenter to Professor [G. L.] Kittredge, dated 3 December 1933. AFC 1972/001 MS p. 06393. [13] AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 02040-02049. [14] Norman Peacock's unpublished notebooks on the Greatham Dance. I am grateful to Dr Peacock for supplying me with a copy of the relevant pages. [15] AFC 1972/001 MS p. 02707. [16] AFC 1972/001 MS p. 02502. [17] For details of the records see for example, AFC 1972/001 MS p. 02502 and MS p. 02707. [18] Draft letter from Carpenter to Professor [G. L.] Kittredge, dated 3 December 1933. AFC 1972/001 MS p. 06393. [19] AFC 1972/001 MS p. 02503. [20] AFC 1972/001 MS p. 06356. [21] AFC 1972/001 MS pp. 06356-65. [22] AFC 1972/001 MS p. 06356. [23] Stroud Journal, 6 May 1932, 10a. [24] AFC 1972/001 MS p. 06356. [25] AFC 1972/001 MS p. 02397. [26] AFC 1972/001 MS pp. 02366-02372. [27] I am grateful to Paul Smith for the details of these two chapbooks. [28] Draft letter from Carpenter to Professor [G. L.] Kittredge, dated 21 November 1933. AFC 1972/001 MS p. 06391. [29] Draft letter from Carpenter to Professor [G. L.] Kittredge, dated 3 December 1933. AFC 1972/001 MS p. 06393. [30] AFC 1972/001 MS pp. 01883-01886. [31] This postcard is part of Carpenter's personal effects currently in the possession of Julia Bishop. These effects will eventually be deposited at the Archive of Folk Culture, The American Folklife Center, The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. [32] Cunard passenger lists. See http://www.findmypast.co.uk/home.jsp; INTERNET [accessed 30 October 2007]

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