Series 1. Folklore Research Papers, Boxes 1-13, ca. 1915-1930

This series includes manuscripts, typescript, and printed folk songs, ballads, and folk tales collected by John Harrington Cox. Folk songs and ballads include lyrics and some sheet music. There are also riddles, superstitions, poems, counting-out rhymes, singing games, ghost stories, and folklore notes. Some of the material in this series was sent to Cox by members of the West Virginia Folklore Society, English class students, and various other interested persons.

Boxes 7, 8, and 9 contain what may be typescripts for a book draft, which include non-religious and religious songs, Black lore, ballads, etc. Box 9, folder 1 contains materials pertaining to the West Virginia Folklore Society. Box 13 contains folklore research papers, most of which are contained in envelopes, with the name of the contributor written on the outside. Box 13 includes songs, stories, correspondence, etc.

The reason for the original numbering scheme of folders in boxes 1-6 is unknown, but may indicate a proposed order for publishing.