James Norman Hall Papers

Boxes 12-24

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 12

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.

Box 13
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.

Box 14
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.

Box 15
BOTANY BAY (with Nordhoff, 1941)
Chapt. 1-13, typescript, with ms revisions by both authors. 278 p.
Chapt. 1-25, and Epilogue, typescript, with ms revisions by both authors, 434 p.
Incomplete versions, early drafts, etc., typescripts, with revisions by both authors. 275 p.

Box 16
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.

Box 17
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.

Box 18
THE HIGH BARBAREE (with Nordhoff, 1945)
Revised draft, typescript, mimeograph, 202 p.
Typescript, with extensive revisions, 406 p.
Typescript, carbon, p. 53-88.

Box 19
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.

Box 20
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.

Box 21
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 revisions. 497 p.
With title "The Bird in the Bush," typescript, original and carbon combined,
each chapter in several differing versions. incomplete. 427 p.

Box 22
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.

Box 23
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

Box 24
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.

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