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The Mess Room: A Tale of 1918, The Empty Chair, The Hurricane, Dark River, Oh Millersville
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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.