Compact disc.

Copied from the original tapes by Tom McKean.

The interview was made on 27 May, 1972.

Tape 1. [Early years, education, writing a novel on top of Mount Mitchell, 1920 goes to Harvard to study English, Dexter scholarship to travel to England, Kitteridge, Sheldon Fellowship to England 1929, North East Scotland, Bell Duncan, collecting methods, renewed Sheldon Fellowship, wrote articles about sailing ships and shanties, collecting experiences, Cornwall, Scotland, Barry Docks, taken for a German spy, appendicitis and other illnesses, writing more articles, needed money, folk plays.]. Tape 2. 0:29:16. [Back from England 1935, lectures at universities, went to Duke 1938 to teach and work on ballads with a typist, music transcription, William and Mary for a year, Greensboro Methodist women's college, teaching Shakespeare, student life at Oxford, retirement 1954, writing songs, Taught himself to transcribe music in 1935 because trained musicians couldn't, transcription technique]. Tape 3. 1:01:01. [Transcribing 1935-8, collecting methods, Dictaphone and portable typewriter, Bell Duncan, folk play from a deaf man, singers pitch too high, transposition of songs, singers were pleased their songs would be preserved, six volt battery for power, recording speed, re used early cylinders, 1928 went to Ireland, impressions of Ireland and Irish people, sailor's tale, northern Irish, southern Irish had no ballads and no shanties, Scott shanty singer in East London, story about trying to buy some paper, [stops mid sentence].