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Letter from Marrocco is at the top of the document, carbon copy of Southern's response is at bottom.

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...

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Single-page typed letter has handwritten postscript on the back.

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Letter and two enclosures. Enclosures are curriculum vitae and notes on a possible lecture tour.

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Stamps and return address indicate letter was sent from Grenada, West Indies.

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Aerogramme with handwritten letter sent from Grenada, West Indies. The writer reintroduces herself to Dr. Southern as a Nigerian musicologist studying funerary music and further indicates she is now uncovering African musical retention in the Caribbean.

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Letter on Université Libre de Bruxelles stationery suggests the author may be Belgian blues musician Daniel Droixhe, known as Elmore D.

The contents concern reimbursement of expenses for Southern's travel to a colloquium entitled "Images de l'African". The absence of the indicated form at the bottom of the page suggest it was filled out in reply.

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...

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Mimeographed onto a blue aerogramme and illustrated with images in red. Sent from Dar Es Salaam to Prof. Joseeph and Eileen Southern.

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Typed letter on blue aerogramme paper from the Director of the Institute of African Studies, Ghana, Legon. Addressed 'Dear Eileen' and signed in pen 'Kwabena.'

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...

Scope and Contents: Southern thanks Chattopadhyay for his praise of her book The Music of Black Americans : A History and congratulates him on his publication of a biography of Dr. Martin Luther King. Southern also writes of her research into the origins of "We Shall Overcome," which she traces to a hymn written in 1900 by Black gospel-hymn writer Charles A. Tindley entitled, "I'll Overcome Some Day." She also credits the spiritual "No More Auction...

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In this letter, Rathindranth Chattopadhyay praises Southern's book The Music of Black Americans : A History and requests Southern to send him extra information on the song "We Shall Overcome." Chattopadhyay also notes that he is the author of the only biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. written in Bengali.

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In his letter, Reginald T. Buckner explains that he created the enclosed workbook on Southern's book The Music of Black Americans : A History to teach his students. Buckner notes that student comprehension improved once he started assigning the workbook to students in addition to reading her book.

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Mark Ridley responds to Eileen Southern's editing of his article on African retnetion written with Wallace Rave. The letter includes Ridley and Rave's proposed changes to the article.

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Southern’s communications with members of the Department of Music and Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and with other Harvard faculty and administration, such as former University President Derek Bok, Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Daniel Bell. Additionally, the series contains correspondence from peers at other universities, inquiries for research assistance from musicology researchers,...