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Collections | Manuscripts | Gower, Herschel Papers | Boxes 11-13

Herschel Gower Papers: Boxes 11-13

Box 11

Subject and Research Files

D. Shelby Williams Trial/Mary Washington Frazer Williams

1. Parts I and II
2. Parts III
3. Part IV

Yeatman Family

4. Yeatmans - descendants of Gustave Eiffel and Thomas Yeatman, II - correspondence and articles (photocopies)
5. Yeatman - Polk and Eiffel families - newspaper articles
6. Savin Yeatman ( great great grandson of Thomas Yeatman, II and Gustave Eiffel) newspaper articles and correspondence on his visit to the U.S. in 1982
7. (Thomas Yeatman, II )“Peace and the Presidential Election of 1864” by Harriet Chappell Owsley reprinted from Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. XVIII, Number 1, March 1959
8. Ted P.Yeatman “Jesse James and Bill Ryan at Nashville” with newspaper article
9. Letters - Yeatman - Polk Collection (Tennessee State Library and Archives) (1) photocopies
10. Letters - Yeatman - Polk Collection (Tennessee State Library and Archives) (2) photocopies
11. Letters - Yeatman - Polk Collection (Tennessee State Library and Archives) (3) photocopies
12. Yeatman family - Book - Eiffel par Jean Prevost - Paris, M.CM. XXIX
13. Yeatman and descendants - correspondence, newspaper articles, and photographs
14. Yeatman family - correspondence, world’s fair at Knoxville, TN 1982, photograph of Savin Yeatman, Alison Gower, M. Alain de Bel at Knoxville World’s Fair

Box 12

Reel to reel tape recordings

1. Gaelic Folk Songs – Scotland #1
    Folk Songs and Music of Scotland #1
2. Folk songs of Scotland Reel #2
    Folk Songs of Scotland Reel #3
3. Folk Songs of Scotland Reel #4
    Folk Songs of Scotland Reel #5
4. Note Cards With Contents of Recordings

Box 13

Reel to reel tape recordings

1. Cherry Tree Carol: Larry Austin, John Butcher, Judy Coffman, Betty McDavid, Corky McKee
    Med. Lyrics

2a. Child Ballads from Several Scottish Singers.
    Side 1:
    Margaret Stewart        
        The Knight and the Shepherd’s Daughter
        Dowie Denso Yarrow
        Sir Hugh, or the Jew’s Daughter
        Baron o’ Braikley
    Sheila Stewart - The Two Brothers
    Bella Stewart Higgins - The Fause Knight Upon the Road
    Duncan McPhee - The Fause Knight Upon the Road
    Nellie McGregor Higgins - The Fause Knight Upon the Road
    Geordie Robertson - The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
    John (Jack) Whyte - The Two Sisters
    Margaret Stewart - The Trooper and the Mind
    Jimmy Stewart - Lord Randal
    Side 2:
    John Strachan Lang - Johnny Mhor (exerpts)
    Jeannie Robertson - Andrew Lammie
    Mrs. Elsie Morrison - The Gardner
    Mrs. Jessie Murray - Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
    Jeannie Robertson - Famous Flower of Serving Men
    John Strachan - Robin Hood and Little John
    Willie McPhee - The Farmer’s Curst Wife
    Willie Mathieson - Capt. Wedderburn’s Courtship
    Mrs. Elsie Morrison - The Laird o’ Drum
   John Strachan
       The Laird o’ Drum
        Keech in the Creel
        The Knight and the Shepherd’s Daughter
2b. Ballad Tape for Herschel, with all the best from the School of Scottish Studies, Fair fa’ ye man!

3 a. Graduate English Club Lecture November, 17, 1961 in Old Central
    Introduction: Tom Inge
    First Speaker: Mr. John Crowe Ransom [73]
    Second Speaker: Dr. Donald Davidson [68]
3b. Bettie McDavid, English 282, January 1966, “The Three Ravens” - versions from Bertrand Bronson, The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads

4 a. Jeannie Robertson - Copied by Jon Porter Reel 1
4b. Jeannie Robertson - Copied by Jon Porter Reel 2

5a. Jeannie Robertson - Copied by Jon Porter Reel 3
5b. Jeannie Robertson - Copied by Jon Porter Reel 4

6a. Jeannie Robertson - Copied by Jon Porter Reel 5
6b. Tribute to Jeannie

7a. Tribute to Jeannie Robertson, Easter Sunday 1975
7b. Several Scottish Singers
    Side 1:
    Dodie Chalmers - The Golden Vanity 286
    John Strachan - Glenlogie 238
    Jimmy and Mrs. Miller - Lord Randal
    John Strachan - Clyde’s Water (The Mother malison) 216
    Willie Mathieson - Bonnie Rantin’ Laddie 240
    Betsy Whyte - Sweet William’s Ghost 77
    Ewen McColl - Eppie Morie 223
    Jimmy McBeth - The Broom of the Cowdenknowes 217
    Bella Stewart Higgins - The Lowlands o’ Holland
    Bella Stewart Higgins - The Douglas Tragedy
    Side 2:
    Jeannie Robertson - The Butcher Boy (The Miller’s Apprentice, SA, I, 407)
    Jeannie Robertson - Peggy on the Banks o’ Spey (When I was new, But Sweet 16)
    John Strachan - Three Jolly Butchers
    Bill Clark - Ellon Feeing Market
    Ewing McColl - Still Growin’ (College Boy)

8a. Selection of 21 Gaelic songs.
8b. Gaelic Songs

9a. Pat Boone
    Gloryland Way
    Why Me
    Campin’ in Canaan land
    Where Will I Shelter My Sheep
    Acres of Diamonds
    I Feel Like Traveling On
    Way Down Deep in My Soul
    I’ll Meet You in Church Sunday Morning
    Someone to Care
9b. The Ballad, The Archetype, and Rock Music
    Allman Brothers I
    Allman Brothers II

10a. Side 1
    Cornelius Watson
    Ronie Watson
    Side 2
    Ora Watson
    Arlie Watson
    Ora and Arlie Watson, and Gaither Carlton
10b. Cindy Hunter, Interview regarding Jeannie Robertson, Edinburgh, June 29, 1979

11a. Andy Hunter’s Tape singing his own songs
    Banter between him, Jeannie, and others
    Andy’s comments
11b. Edinburgh Tape #1

12a. Jeannie Robertson excerpts from Peter Kennedy’s Cassette “What a Voice”
12b. Side I:  Readings by Joyce Collie and Alexander Fenton
    Side II: Six Scottish and English Folksongs collected in Scotland

13a. Interview with Jean Redpath
13b. “The House Carpenter”
    Joan Baez - “The Joan Baez Ballad Book”
    Buffy Sainte Marie - “Little Wheel Spin and Spin”
    Jean Ritchie - “British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains”
    Stefan Grossman - “Yazoo Basin Boogie”

14a. Scottish and English Folk Songs collected in Scotland
14b. Folktracks (cassette)
    Not identified
    Not identified

15. Miscellaneous papers relating to the recordings including a term paper “The Ballad, the Archetype, and Rock Music” by John Muench

Overview | Biography | Boxes 1-5 | Boxes 6-10 | Boxes 11-13 | Complete Guide (PDF)