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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);

• Passport issued at Berne, Switzerland;
• Grinnell College Glee Club; Student pantorium (ad);
• Squad 6, Company A;
• Group picture from Buc;
• Hall in plane;
• Hall in French uniform;
• Group picture in Tahiti, with Halls and Nordhoffs;
• Hall, Mrs. Hall, children, friend, puppy; Hall (passport photo?);
• Hall in British (?) uniform, no jacket;
• Cartoon-inked body, photo head;

IV. Unpublished manuscripts;

• Writing for a Living;
• When You're Down and Out;
• A Well-Remembered Silver Dollar;
• Waves on Coral Strands;
• The Water Works;
• South Sea Tourists;
• Songs of Subterfuge;
• The Nudists;
• The Pereoo-Pute;
• Murder of the Sea Fowl;
• The Modern aspect of Peace;
• Afternoons and Evenings;
• The Last Blank Spot;
• In the Midmost Ocean;
• Imperfect Heresies;
• Conversation at Taunoa;
• The Bougainville Club;
• The Collaborators; On "Our Times" by Mark Sullivan;
• Untitled article on Dodsley's Annual Register;
• Untitled: conversation with museum field worker;
• Untitled: the drought; Unpublished poems;
• 100th anniversary of French occupation of Tahiti;
• Aug. 10, 1931: The Stave; Airman's Rendezvous;
• Afterword;
• Candle in the Hand;
• Armentieres Sector;
• Home for Blinded Soldiers;
• Near Loos;
• Cabot Street in August;
• Reprint from Harvard graduates magazine, Sept. 1926, Nordhoff, "Saved by the Durian"

Short manuscripts and correspondence, donated to Grinnell Archives by Roy Cushman's widow in 1963:

• 6 essays and poems by Hall, ca. 1916
• Rejection slips from publishers, 1916
• 3 Fern Gravel poems, ca. 1946

3 poems, typescript, possibly donated by George Greener:

• The Watchdogs (ca. 1942),
• Vigil at Locksley Hall (1942??),
• The Winter Feast

Fragments and discards of writings, typescripts and holograph.

Martha Judd donation, 1981. (Items originally owned by Ham and Carrie Guild, Mrs. Judd's stepfather and mother, who lived in Tahiti 1922-40 and were close friends of Hall and Nordhoff.)

• The Feet that Wouldn't Go East, A Ballad. 4 p.
• The Watchdogs, ca. 1942. 2 p.
• The Ends of Being, A Dialogue. 1935. 14 p.
• Two Collaborators. 1938. 2 versions. 11 p. each
• [Poem] Handwritten. 4 p.
• Letter, JNH to Mr. and Mrs. Guild. 1 p.
• Charcoal/ pencil caricatures (each 8.5" x 11") by Kevin Wallace: Self portrait, Lynne Bogue Hunt, Nino Brombella, Cole Porter, Eastham Guild, James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff

John and Gwen Miller donation: 1936 card with poem to Lenoir Hood Miller '10

Published stories and essays:

• At Forty-five. three versions, 5 p., 4 p., 7 p. (Atlantic, v.150:305)
• Death on an Atoll. 28 p. (Atlantic, v.147:303)
• An Expatriot's Positions. 3 versions, 15 p., 15 p., 5 p. (American Review, v.5:185)
• Faery Lands of the Sea: An Experiment in Education. 4 p. (Faery Lands of the South Seas)
• Happy Endings and other stories from Under a Thatched Roof. 38 p.
• The Jungle. 2 p.
• Lives Authors Lead (A Note on Authorship). 6 p. (Bookman, v.79:219)
• Lord of Marutea (Herr Moeller). 2 versions, each 33 p. (Atlantic, v.151:12)
• The Modern Aspects of Peace. 5 p.
• Mr. Bolton's Birthday Walk. 2 versions, each 7 p. (Atlantic, v.173:70)
• My Friend Rivnac. 3 versions, 23 p., 24 p., 22 p. (The Forgotten One)
• My Mortal Enemy. 5 p. On Loafing. 2 p. (Atlantic, v.148:57)
• Skip: A Strong Noun. 2 version, 8 p. each. (Atlantic, v.151: 221)
• The State of Being Bored. 7 p. (Atlantic, v.151:318)
• Tale of a Shipwreck. Synopses of 3 stories. 2 p.
• Too Many Books (Literary Over-production). 5 p. (Atlantic, v.150:458)
• Tunnelled Pages. 16 p. (Under a Thatched Roof)
• The Voice (In a Barber Shop). 5 p. (Atlantic, v.151:579)

Unpublished essays, stories, poems:

• And Yet...On the Other Hand... 4 p.
• The April Wind. 2 p.
• Back to the Primitive. 1 p.
• Bougainville Club. 5 p. (incomplete)
• The Canal. 2 p. The Collaborators. 11 p.
• A Conversation at Tahiti. 4 versions, with several titles.
• Diet of Worms. 12 p.
• The Drought. 3 p.
• Gold Star Mother. 12 p. 2 versions.
• Imperfect Heresies. 9 p. 2 versions.
• In Latitude Twenty, South. 3 p.
• In Midmost Ocean. 3 p.
• The Last Blank Spot. 4 p. 2 versions.
• Lofty; the Memoirs of a Freak. Incomplete, several versions.
• Mid-morning. 17 p. 4 versions, several titles.
• Modern Aspect of Peace. 5 p. plus first draft.
• Murder of the Sea Fowl. 4 p.
• Musical Education of a Layman. 2 p.
• My Mortal Enemy. 5 p.
• Narrative of a Journey. 22 p.
• News from the Pacific. 14 p.
• Note on Julian Green. 5 p.
• Nudists. 3 p.
• One Director Less. 6 p.
• A Pair of Collaborators. 9 p.
• Pereoo-pute. 2 p.
• Pittsburg. 2 p.
• St. Francis of the Flowers. 10 p., 3 versions.
• Songs of Subterfuge. 11 p.
• South Sea Tourists. 4 p.
• Tahiti Calling. 7 p.
• Uninhabited. 3 p.
• Voyage of the Duff. 14 p.
• The Water-Works. 19 p.
• Waves I have Watched. 6 p.
• Another version, Waves on Coral Strands. 8 p.
• Well-Remembered Silver Dollar. 4 p.
• When You're Down and Out... 3 p.
• William Whitehead: Poet Laureate. 4 p.
• Writing for a Living. 5 p.
• The Memoirs of a Very Thin Man by Gerard Manning (pseud.). 24 p.

Untitled:

• On Dodsley's Annual Register. 1 p.
• On Mark Sullivan's 'Our Times'. 3 p.
• Conversation with a scientific field worker. 2 p.
• Fragment from Kitchener's Mob (?)

Poems:

• Armentiers Sector. May, 1915.
• Home for Blinded Soldiers. Paris, 1915.
• Near Loos. Sept., 1915.
• August 10, 1931. The Stare.
• Cabot Street in August.
• Candle in hand...(untitled) 2 p.
• Lines written on the 100th Anniversary of the French Occupation of Tahiti.
• On a Trans-Continental Journey. 3 p.
• The Trader. 4 p.
• Voices at a Distance. 1 p.
• The Airman's Rendezvous. 3 p.
• When Father Made Life Astonishing. 1 p.
• When the Moon Comes Over the Hill (1908). 2 p.

The Forgotten One (1952) Typescript, original, with printer's marks. Incomplete, 203 p. Original typescript of "The Forgotten One" and "Lord of Marutia," 77 p. Carbon typescript of "The Forgotten One," 50 p. Carbon typescript of "Goodbye Polynesia," omitted from The Forgotten One, published later as Lost Island, 144 p.

"Nancy's Birthday Verses," 1930-1947. Typescript and holograph. Unpublished poems.

"Poems of the Woodshed Poet" (ca. 1930's and 1940's) Typescript, published and unpublished poems.

"More poems of the Woodshed Poet" (ca. 1930's 1940's) Typescript and holograph, published and unpublished poems.

My Island Home: an Autobiography of James Norman Hall (1952) Typescript, carbon and original, of a draft Sarah Hall gave to a friend (Greener or Cushman?) after Hall's death, 464 p. With title, "A Bird in the Bush" chapters 1-5, various early typescript versions, original and carbons, with revisions

My Island Home: an Autobiography of James Norman Hall (1952) "Setting copy" typescript, original, with printer's marks and initialed corrections and comments by the editor, Edward Weeks. Includes index. 496 p. Carbon of the above but without index.

My Island Home: an Autobiography of James Norman Hall (1952) With title "Look to the Northward, Stranger," typescript, original and some carbon pages inserted, with revisionsc 497 p. With title "The Bird in the Bush," typescript, original and carbon combined, each chapter in several differing versions, incomplete, 427 p.

The Far Lands (1950) Foreword, 1 p., prologue, 16 p., epilogue, p. 354-367, typescript. Typescript, carbon, printer's copy, 367 p. Another version, typescript, carbon, 361 p. Outlines, original and carbon typescripts and holographs, 78 p. Other versions of some chapters, ca. 200 p. Discarded versions, original and carbon typescript, ca. 108 p.

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.

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.

No More Gas (with Nordhoff, 1940) Second semi-final draft, with alternate title, "Jonas-MA", carbon typescript with revisions, 278 p. Second semi-final draft, carbon typescript with revisions, 278 p. Final draft, carbon typescripts, 2 copies, 266 p. each.

Men Without Country (with Nordhoff, 1942) Original typescript, first draft with revisions, 79 p. Parts of another version, typescript, 20 p.

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.

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.

Mutiny on the Bounty (with Nordhoff, 1932) First draft typescript with revisions by both authors. Chaps. 1-13, 12 unnumbered chapters, chap. 26-27, Epilogue. 429 p.

Men Against the Sea (with Nordhoff, 1933) Typescript, original and carbon, much is first draft with revisions. 328 pp. total.

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