Roger Pryor Dodge papers

This collection contains essays, research, and correspondence. There are essays written by Dodge about jazz, jazz performers, dance, art, science, and Bubber Miley, a jazz trumpet player. Other essays include "Jazz in the Twenties" and "Jazz: Its Rise and Decline." There is a 1939 bibliography of jazz books and articles assembled by Dodge along with two issues (no. 17 and no. 23) of A Symposium of Literature, History and Arts: English Miscellany, each including chapters written by Dodge. The correspondence consists of letters to Jerome Sullivan from 1958-1964. The collection also contains boxes of index cards with song titles and artists organized alphabetically.