Woody Guthrie manuscript collection
Contributors: Archive of Folk Song (U.S.); American Folklife Center; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
Published: 1935
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; Written works; English Songs; Political ballads and songs; Texts; Protest songs; Songbooks; Folk singers
Other titles: Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: correspondence, 1940-1950; Songs of Woody Guthrie.
Description: The Woody Guthrie manuscript collection includes unpublished correspondence; most are letters from Guthrie to Alan Lomax, assistant in charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, dated 1940-1942; plus drawings; essays; song lyrics; and a songbook, "Songs of Woody Guthrie."
Notes: Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection (AFC 1940/004), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Selections from this collection are available in an online version entitled: "Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950," an American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.