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Parte deRG-L: Library Records
Parte deRG-L: Library Records
Parte deRG-L: Library Records
Loose Correspondence and Deconstructed Scrapbook
CLH/JNH/Sarah Hall Correspondence, Uncle Wally Correspondence, Estate Letters
Estate Letters, Miscellaneous Photos, Correspondence, and other Loose Materials
Photo Albums: Joseph Winchester and Unlabeled
28 Notebooks: 4 notebooks from Iceland trip; 4 notebooks from south seas journeys; notes on New South Wales, 4 notebooks on short story "Med to Mum"; miscellaneous
Travel information, maps, guidebooks
Travel information, maps, guidebooks.
11A: Photographs, 11B: Periodicals
Iceland photographs (some are post cards, some with messages), periodicals with Hall's writings (mostly Atlantic Monthly), seventy copy negatives of photographs which were loaned to Prof. Paul L. Briand, Jr. by Hall family in Tahiti about 1963
Pitcairn's Island, Dr. Dogboy's Leg
Pitcairn's Island (with Nordhoff, 1934) Original typescript, first draft with revisions, authorship of each chapter indicated, 377 p. Original typescript, incomplete version, 231 p. Notes, holograph of Epilogue, 8 p.
Dr. Dogbody's Leg (1940) Chapters 1-10, typescript (carbon), 317 p. Early drafts, typescript (original or carbons) with author's revisions, 150 p. Background notes, typescript and holograph.
The Mess Room: A Tale of 1918, The Empty Chair, The Hurricane, Dark River, Oh Millersville
The Mess Room: a tale of 1918 (with Nordhoff, undated--in envelope dated 1933) First draft, original and carbon typescript, ca. 107 p. Second draft, carbon typescript, 135 pp.
The Empty Chair (with Nordhoff, n.d.) (play based on story "The Mess Room") Original typescript, 75 p.
The Hurricane (with Nordhoff, 1935) Original typescript with revisions by both authors, 13 p. Includes note: "The fragment of a first attempt at writing 'The Hurricane.' First chapter-C.N., second chapter-J.N.H."
Dark River (with Nordhoff, 1938) Dramatis personae and outline, original typescript, 18 p. First draft, original typescript, 107 p. Second draft, original and carbon typescript, 99 p.
Oh Millersville (written under pseudonym, Fern Gravel, 1940) Original typescript, unpaged. "Oh, Millersville: A Confession" carbon typescript of JNH article in Atlantic Monthly (1946), 7 p. Two notebooks of poems and notes for poems, holograph, 36 p. & 43 p. Typed and holograph sheets of poems, ca. 100 p. 12 letters, 1946-47, relating to authorship hoax. Newspaper clippings about hoax.
On the Stream of Travel, Good Night and Good Morning
On the Stream of Travel (1926) Original typescript of 2 chapters.
Good Night and Good Morning (ca. 1943) Musical play, script and lyrics by JNH, music by Carl Beecher. First draft. First revision. Final typescript, 3 copies, 107 p. Scores of 13 songs, 3 copies. Misc.
Word for His Sponsor, The Rocky Mountains, Uncle Ned's Teeth
A Word For His Sponsor (1949) (narrative poem) First and second drafts, original and carbon typescript and holograph, ca. 400 p. Another version, incomplete, carbon typescript with editorial revisions and printer's marks, 73 p.
The Rocky Mountains (n.d.) Play in three acts; suggested by short story "Uprooted" by Ruth Suckow. Typescripts of play script, 2 copies, original and carbon with revisions in original copy, 103 p.
Uncle Ned's Teeth (n.d.) Carbon typescript, 19 p. Reprint of story from Adventure.
Roy Cushman's gift of 2 reels of microfilm are indexed below:
Reel #1 (One original reel, one positive duplicate, and one negative duplicate)
I. Manuscripts: by Fern Gravel: The Autograph, Oh! Oh! Oh!, Dear Mr. Winship (1946), English attitude toward America. (ca. 1917), With a machine gun crew in Flanders. (ca. 1916-17), The Seekers. (ca. 1916), In the Station, Wartime England: I. Blinded Soldiers
II. A North Country Mother; Near Ypres; Clipping: Out of Flanders (from Atlantic Monthly, 1916); Letter, undated, JNH to Cushman; Miscellaneous rejection slips; Clipping: Literary Digest review of Kitchener's Mob. 1916
III. Letters: Hall to Cushman, 1914-15. 25 letters and cards: 1914 June 1, 19, 29; Aug. (undated), 19, 27-28; Sept. 30; Oct. 31; Nov. 28; Dec. 29 1915 Jan. 5; Feb. 7; Mar. 24; Apr. 17; May 1, 15, 17, 20; June 13; July 5, 9, 20, 23; Aug. 31; Oct. 6-7 Letters: Hall to Cushman, 1916-17. 10 letters, 10 post cards: 1916 Sept. 11, 15, 16, 19; Oct. 1, 3, 16; Nov. 8; Dec. 16; 1917 Mar. 21, 29; Apr. 3; July (undated), 14, 15; Sept. 1, 27; Oct. 10; Nov. 1; Letters; Hall to Cushman, 1931-51. 12 letters, 3 photos: 1931 Jan. 1, Feb. 1; 1932 Feb. 1, May 22; 1936 Dec. 21; 1940 Jan. 9; 1941 May 9, May 28; 1944 July 24; 1947 Dec. 12; 1950 Feb. 22, Apr. 4
Reel #2 (One original positive reel and one negative duplicate)
I. Seven notebooks, Grandfather's Civil War diary, Grinnell College Glee Club diary, 1909 Boston Globe clipping on Nordhoff's death
II. Letters 1914 (12 letters), Aug. 6, 6, Sept. 19, 23, Oct. 25, 31, Nov. 7, 13, 22, Dec. 21, 25, 1915 (38 letters and cards); Jan. 5, 8 , 19, 22; Feb. 18; Mar. 1, 2, 7, 8, 14, 15, 25; Apr. 12, 20; May 2, 10, 11, 17, 21; June 1, 7, 9, 11, 16, 18; July 4, 17; Aug. 2, 7, 17, 28; Sept. 1, 9, 12; Oct. 9, 24, 31; Nov. 16 1919-21 (13 letters) 1919 Feb. 1; Apr. 1, 3, 7, 9; May 15, 20 1921 Apr. 5; Aug. 19, 24, 29; Sept. 12, 13 1928-44 (36 letters) 1928 Jan. 8 1930 Jan. 6; May 21; June 18; Nov. 10 1931 Feb. 1, 26; Aug. 18; Sept. 9 1933 Apr. 22; May 28; July 12, 12; Aug. 14; Nov. 19 1934 Apr. 22 1935 Jan. 28; May 17; Nov. 3; Dec. 10 1936 June 2; Sept. 24; Nov. 2; Dec. 20 1937 Jan. 26; May 22 1938 Jan. 2; Mar. 9; Apr. 5; Dec. 22 1940 Apr. 17; Aug. 4 1941 Apr. 28 1943 Mar. 11 1944 Mar. 7, June 1
III. Photographs Grinnell campus, 1904 (3 photos);
IV. Unpublished manuscripts;