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         1997ms359 
         
             
                 Marie Campbell papers, 1939-1962
                     1997ms359 
                 
                 Campbell, Marie papers 
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             Marie Campbell papers 
             1997ms359 
             
                 University of Kentucky Special Collections 
             
             
                 
             
             
                 1.35 Cubic Feet 
                 3 boxes 
             
             1939-1962 
             The Marie Campbell papers (dated 1939-1962; 1.35 cubic feet) primarily comprises correspondence and manuscripts that document the publication of four books by folklore scholar Marie Campbell. 
         
         
             Scope and Contents note 
             The Marie Campbell papers (dated 1939-1962; 1.35 cubic feet) primarily comprises correspondence with publisher Farrar & Rinehart and manuscripts that document the publication of four books by folklore scholar Marie Campbell: 
                 Cloud Walking  (1942), 
                 Folks Do Get Born  (1946), 
                 House with Stairs  (1950), and 
                 Tales from Cloud Walking Country  (1958). Also includes two newspaper articles that relate to Marie Campbell's career as a folklorist and publication of 
                 Tales from Cloud Walking Country . 
         
         
             Conditions Governing Use note 
             Property rights reside with the University of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky holds the copyright for materials created in the course of business by University of Kentucky employees. Copyright for all other materials has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky. For information about permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections. 
         
         
             Arrangement note 
             Collection is arranged by format. 
         
         
             Immediate Source of Acquisition note 
             Gift, 1997 
         
         
             Preferred Citation note 
             1997ms359: [identification of item], Marie Campbell papers, 1939-1962, University of Kentucky Special Collections. 
         
         
             Conditions Governing Access note 
             Collection is open to researchers by appointment. 
         
         
             Related Archival Materials note 
             59m6, Marie Campbell 
                 Tales from the Cloud Walking Country  manuscript, University of Kentucky Special Collections. 
         
         
             Biographical Note 
             Marie Campbell, author and prominent folklore scholar, was born in Tamms, Illinois on February 17, 1907. In the summer of 1926, nineteen-year-old Campbell left her home to take a teaching position with the Hindman Settlement School at Caney Creek in Knott County, Kentucky. The following fall she accepted a position with the school at Gander (now Carcassone) in Letcher County, Kentucky. It was at these locations that she was first introduced to the rich oral tradition of Kentucky mountain people. Between 1926 and 1940 Campbell collected stories, many of which were local variations on European folk tales, Irish mythology, and other stories with classical origins. She also participated in local events such as quilting bees, square dances, and church meetings, and even corn-shucking, bean-stringing, or apple-peeling gatherings. What she captured through her notes were stories passed down by family members who for more than a century were largely isolated from outside society. 
             In the 1930s Campbell started publishing articles on folklore while working as a high school English teacher. She received an A.B. in education from Southern Illinois Teachers College in 1932 and an M.A. in English from George Peabody College in 1937. In 1940, Campbell started teaching English, folklore, and creative writing at West Georgia College, Peabody College, Alabama Laboratory School, and Carollton High School in Georgia. During the summers she worked with the Kentucky Crippled Children's Commission making home visits. 
             Campbell published her first collection of southern Appalachian folk tales, 
                 Cloud-Walking , in 1942. Two years later in 1944, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts - Fiction to support further research. Over the next decade Campbell produced 
                 Folks Do Get Born  (1946), an account of African American midwives in rural Georgia, and 
                 A House with Stairs  (1950), a novel about an African-American family in Alabama during the Civil War. Additionally, she published many articles in magazines and journals such as Southern Literary Messenger, Journal of American Folklore, Southern Folklore Quarterly, American Cookery, Childhood Education, School Activities, and the Tennessee Folklore Bulletin. 
             In 1956 Campbell finished a Ph.D. in folklore and comparative literature from Indiana University. During this time she taught at Glassboro State College in New Jersey, Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Campbell published a second collection of southern Appalachian folk tales, 
                 Tales of the Cloud Walking Country , in 1958. At the time of her death, Dr. Campbell was an emeritus professor of Folklore and English at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. 
             
                 Marie Campbell.  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Accessed October 23, 2013. http://www.gf.org/fellows/2212-marie-campbell. 
             Yocom, Margaret R. 
                 Marie Campbell  in 
                 American Folklore: An Encyclopedia , edited by Jan Harold Brunvand, 230. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. 
             
             
         
         
             Campbell, Marie, 1907- 
             Farrar & Rinehart. 
             Appalachian Region--Folklore 
             Authors, American--Kentucky. 
             Folklore. 
             Publishers and publishing--United States. 
             Women authors--20th century. 
         
         
             
                 
                     Correspondence 
                     Series I. 
                     1939-1962 
                 
                 
                     Scope and Contents note 
                     Primarily comprises publisher's correspondence between Marie Campbell and the staff of Farrar and Rinehart, New York that documents the publication of her books 
                         Cloud Walking  (1942-1945), 
                         Folks Do Get Born  (1946-1949), and 
                         House with Stairs  (1950-1962). Also includes general correspondence between Marie Campbell and numerous persons. Correspondents include John Farrar, Frederick Rinehart, Stanley Rinehart, Jean Crawford, John Selby, Marguerite Reese, Theodore S. Amussen, Bill Jansen, Susan B. Riley, Walter C. Curry, Lucy Gage, A. L. Crabb, Willis A. Sutton, Mary Venable, and Louis C. Jones. 
                     There is also a newspaper article dated February 19, 1956, that describes Marie Campbell's early career working as a teacher at the Hindman Settlement School on Caney Creek in Knott County, Kentucky and at Gander (now Carcassone), near Whitesburg in Letcher County, Kentucky as well as how she started collecting the stories that were later included in her book 
                         Cloud Walking . 
                 
                 
                     
                         Publisher's correspondence 
                         Subseries A. 
                         1942-1962 
                     
                     
                         
                             Farrar and Rinehart, New York, on 
                                 Cloud Walking 
                             1 
                             1 
                             1942-1945 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             Farrar and Rinehart, New York, on 
                                 Folks Do Get Born 
                             1 
                             2 
                             1946-1949 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             Farrar and Rinehart, New York, on 
                                 House with Stairs 
                             1 
                             3 
                             1950-1962 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             Miscellaneous 
                             1 
                             4 
                             undated 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             
                                 Lexington Herald-Leader  newspaper article 
                             1 
                             5 
                             1956 February 19 
                         
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         General correspondence 
                         Subseries B. 
                         1939-1955 
                     
                     
                         
                             
                             1 
                             6 
                             1939 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             1942 
                             1 
                             7 
                             1942 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             
                             1 
                             8 
                             1943 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             
                             1 
                             9 
                             1944-1945 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             
                             1 
                             10 
                             1946 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             
                             1 
                             11 
                             1947-1949 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             
                             1 
                             12 
                             1950 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             
                             1 
                             13 
                             1951 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             
                             1 
                             14 
                             1952-1955 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             
                             1 
                             15-16 
                             undated 
                         
                     
                 
             
             
                 
                     Manuscripts 
                     Series II. 
                     1958, undated 
                 
                 
                     Scope and Contents note 
                     Primarily comprises handwritten and carbon copy manuscripts of Marie Campbell's books
                          Folks Do Get Born  (1946), 
                         House with Stairs  (1950), 
                         Tales From the Cloud Walking Country  (1958) and 
                         Cloud Walking  (1942). 
                     There is also a newspaper article dated December 14, 1958, that describes Marie Campbell's early career as a folklorist and documents the publication of her book 
                         Tales From the Cloud Walking Country . 
                 
                 
                     
                         
                             Folks Do Get Born 
                         Subseries A. 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         
                             Handwritten copy 
                             2 
                             1-4 
                             undated 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             Carbon copy 
                             2 
                             5 
                             undated 
                         
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         
                             House with Stairs 
                         Subseries B. 
                         undated 
                     
                     
                         
                             Handwritten copy 
                             2 
                             6-8 
                             undated 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             Carbon copy 
                             3 
                             1 
                             undated 
                         
                     
                 
                 
                     
                         
                             Tales from Cloud Walking Country  and 
                             Cloud Walking 
                         Subseries C. 
                         1958, undated 
                     
                     
                         
                             Handwritten copies 
                             3 
                             2-4 
                             undated 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             Carbon copy of 
                                 Cloud Walking 
                             3 
                             5 
                             undated 
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             Herald-Leader newspaper article 
                             3 
                             6 
                             1958 December 14