James Norman Hall Papers

Boxes 25-26

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 25
Published stories and essays:
At Forty-five. three versions, 5 p., 4 p., 7 p. (Atlantic 150:305)
Death on an Atoll.. 28 p. (Atlantic 147:303)
An Expatriot's Positions. 3 versions, 15 p., 15 p., 5 p. (American Review 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 79:219)
Lord of Marutea (Herr Moeller). 2 versions, each 33 p. (Atlantic 151:12)
The Modern Aspects of Peace. 5 p.
Mr. Bolton's Birthday Walk. 2 versions, each 7 p. (Atlantic 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 148:57)
Skip: A Strong Noun. 2 version, 8 p. each. (Atlantic 151: 221)
The State of Being Bored. 7 p. (Atlantic 151:318)
Tale of a Shipwreck. Synopses of 3 stories. 2 p.
Too Many Books (Literary Over-production). 5 p. (Atlantic 150:458)
Tunnelled Pages. 16 p. (Under a Thatched Roof)
The Voice (In a Barber Shop). 5 p. (Atlantic 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Unpublished essays, stories, poems: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.

Box 26
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 81â"2" 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

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