Description
This collection of research materials represents the final stages of preparation before
the Index of Folk Tunes went to the publisher, H. W. Wilson Company, New
York. Evidently 114 published collections of folk tunes were to have been included in the
publication (see the Correspondence for May 28, 1937 and the bound yellow
chart mentioned in item 8 of this inventory). The Index was begun well
before the year 1930 and continued actively until June, 1941. The project terminated due
to the death of the compiler. It is evident that Miss Kappes was a passionate dilettante,
who doggedly pursued a dream of publishing an index of world folk tunes. Her Indexwas intended to go beyond the catalogs of Minnie Sears, and actually contain the
tunes.