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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"

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