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James Norman Hall Papers


Boxes 5-11


Table of Contents

Introduction

Biographical Note

Scope and Content Note

Container List

* Boxes 1-2 Correspondence
* Boxes 3-4 Correspondence
* Boxes 5-11 Miscellaneous (clippings, notebooks, photographs, etc.)
* Boxes 12-24 Manuscripts of published books
* Boxes 25-26 Manuscripts of stories, essays, poems
* Boxes 27-29 Microfilms of selected correspondence and manuscripts
* Box 30 Laurence Winship donation
* Memorabilia

Appendix A: Index of microfilms


Appendix B: Scarlet & Black References to Hall


Box 5
World War I and Lafayette Escadrille:
Newspaper clippings; booklets on the war; historical sketch (typescript carbon, 7 p. ); clippings on corps members; photographs of aviators; aerial photos (unlabelled); photos of Landshut; French war bond poster; BEC clippings.

Box 6
Personal papers:
Misc. personal papers; Grandfather Young's Civil War diary Apr.-May 1865 (he was in Sherman's army in N.C.); clippings about Hall's family; articles by and about Hall; photographs.

Box7
Clippings:
Book reviews; clippings on Tahiti, sea adventures, misc. subjects

Box 8
Miscellaneous:
Grinnell College and Glee Club: Glee Club programs, diary of Glee Club trip 1909 (26 p., holograph), clippings.
Murray Welch article about Hall (16 typescript, carbon).
From Nordhoff: Jefferson book-catalog clippings
Photographs of Hall, family and friends (donated to Grinnell College by Greener and Cushman).

Box 9
Notebooks (28):
4 notebooks from Iceland trip; 4 notebooks from south seas journeys; notes on New South Wales, 4 notebooks on short story "Med to Mum"; misc.

Box 10
Travel information, maps, guidebooks

Box11
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.

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