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A Guide to the Additional Papers of Nancy Hale Hale, Nancy, Additional Papers 3646-g, 3646-h

A Guide to the Additional Papers of Nancy Hale

A Collection in
Special Collections
The University of Virginia Library
Accession Number 3646-g, 3646-h


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Repository
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
Accession number
3646-g, 3646-h
Title
Additional Papers of Nancy Hale
Quantity
Language
English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Additional Papers of Nancy Hale, Accession #3646-g, 3646-h, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

3646-g was a gift of Nancy Hale Bowers, August 11, 1958. 3646-h was a gift of Nancy Hale Bowers, December 14, 1959.

Scope and Content Information

The collection contains manuscripts, typescripts and galley proofs of novels and short stories as well as notes, clippings, correspondence with publishers and literary agents, and letters from friends, readers. and directors or attendees at various writing programs. Included are the typescript of Dear beast, and galleys of A New England girlhood and Heaven and Hardpan farm.

Correspondents, usually represented by one or two letters, include Frank [X] Barron, Mariesta Bloom, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Fredson Bowers, Constance Carrier, Charles Scribner's Sons, Mary Ellen Chase, John Ciardi, Robert M. Coates, George G. Coughlin, Richard Frede, Daniel Fuchs, John Holmes, Katie Letcher, Victoria Lincoln, William Maxwell, Mary Margaret McBride, James Mconkey, Elizabeth Nowell, Harold Ober, Theodore Peterson, John Lowell Pratt, santha Rama Rau, Nancy Wilson Ross, May Sarton, William Seward, William Sloane, Hollis Summers, Joyce Warren, James Wharton.

The collection also contains phonorecords of a 1950 interview with Hale, "Author meets the critics" and readings from "Little Boy & his grandmother " and "Uncle Paul. "

Contents List

William Maxwell to Nancy Hale (Bowers) 1957-1958
Box 1
51 TLS
Elizabeth Nowell to Nancy Hale 1957-1958
Box 1
41 TLS, ANS, ALS
Mary Ellen Chase to Nancy Hale 1957-1958
Box 1
2 ALS
Anita Black ( The Daily Progress ) to Nancy Hale n.d.
Box 1
1 ALS, 1 TLS
Ned Bradford (Little, Brown and Co.) to Nancy Hale 1957-1959
Box 1
6 TLS
R.H. Fetridge, Jr. (Little Brown and Co.) to Nancy Hale 1959
Box 1
2 TLS
Dorothy Olding to Nancy Hale 1959
Box 1
1 TLS
Ivan von Auw Jr. to Nancy Hale 1957-1959
Box 1
27 TLS
Harold Ober to Nancy Hale 1946-1957
Box 1
4 TLS
John Ciardi ( Saturday Review ) to Nancy Hale 1957-1958
Box 1
5 TLS
George H. Freitag to Nancy Hale 1957
Box 1
2 TLS
Catherine Drinker Bowen to Nancy Hale 1959
Box 1
1 TLS
Theodore Peterson to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 1
1 TLS
Mary Margaret McBride to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 1
1 ANS
Philip Lasell to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 1
1 ALS
To Nancy Hale from Ivan von Auw J., Clara Dowell; "an admirer" 1956-1959
Box 1
3 telegrams
Clara Nowell to Nancy Hale 1957
Box 1
2 ALS
Marion Benasutte to Nancy Hale 1957-1958
Box 1
2 TLS
Mrs. Lewis Patton to Nancy Hale 1957-1959
Box 1
3 ALS
John Holmes to Nancy Hale 1957-1958
Box 1
2 TLS
Helene E. Tash to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 1
1 TLS
Charles Scribner's Sons to Nancy Hale 1955-1958
Box 1
12 TLS
Muriel Lawrence to Nancy Hale 1957
Box 1
1 ALS, 1 TLS
May Sarton to Nancy Hale 1957
Box 1
1 TLS
John Lowell Pratt (A.S. Barnes and Co.) to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 1
1 TLS
Richard Frede to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 1
1 TLS
James Wharton to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 1
1 ALS
Robert Kaback to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 1
1 ALS
Forrest H. Graves to Nancy Hale 1958-1959
Box 1
2 TLS
Nancy Wilson Ross to Nancy Hale 1957
Box 1
2 TLS
Mrs. Dana Knowlton to Nancy Hale 1956-1958
Box 2
4 TLS
To Nancy Hale re: The Prodigal Woman 1957-1959
Box 2
5 ALS
To Nancy Hale re: Dear Beast 1959
Box 2
3 ALS
To Nancy Hale re: Her books 1958-1959
Box 2
6 ALS
To Nancy Hale re: Heaven and Hard Pan Farm 1957-1958
Box 2
2 ALS, 1 TLS
To Nancy Hale re: Her magazine stories 1956-1959
Box 2
19 ALS and TLS
Shirley Molner to Nancy Hale re: Family Genealogy 1958
Box 2
1 TLS
Constance Carrier to Nancy Hale 1957
Box 2
1 ANS
Gertrude H. Hale to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 TLS
George Coughlin to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 TLS
Miriam H. Flick to Nancy Hale 1959
Box 2
1 ALS
Vera Malone Conrad to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 TLS
Joyce Warren to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 ALS
James McConkey to Nancy Hale 1959
Box 2
1 TLS
Hollis Summers to Nancy Hale 1957
Box 2
1 TLS
William Sloane to Nancy Hale 1957
Box 2
1 TLS
C.N. Waldron to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 TLS
Velma M. Boaz to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 ALS
Katie Letcher to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 TLS
William S. Seward Jr. to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 TLS
Frank Barron to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 TLS
miscellaneous letters, cards, clippings, etc. ca. 1957
Box 2
5 TLS to Miss Frances Herman re: complimentary copies of Heaven and Hardpan Farm 1957
Box 2
5 TLS
Fredson Bowers to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
TLS
Elder to Fredson Bowers 1958
Box 2
TLS
two posters announcing lecture by Nancy Hale at University of Chicago 1958
Box 2
Constance Smith to Nancy Hale 1957
Box 2
1 TLS
Mariesta Bloom to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 ALS
Florine Mac Conochie to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 ALS
Winifred McCulloch to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 TLS
Ken Browne to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 TLS
Margaret Tobin Vail to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 TLS
George N. Dale to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 TLS
Mrs. Carl Burger to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 ALS
Rosamond Vitale to Nancy Hale 1958
Box 2
1 ALS
Vicky Lincoln to Nancy Hale 1959
Box 2
3 TLS
To Nancy Hale re: A New England Girlhood 1958-1959
Box 2
16 ALS and TLS
"Coming Out "
Box 3
TmsS, 3 versions with autograph corrections 8, 11, 9 pp.
"A Haunting "
Box 3
TMs, 12 pp.
"A New Place (The Keeper of the Horses) "
Box 3
TMs, with ANS William to Nancy, 20 pp.
comments on "A New Place "by William [Maxwell]
Box 3
TMs, 4 pp.
"A New Place (The Keeper of the Horses) "
Box 3
TMs, 20 pp.
"The Keeper of the Horses (A New Place) "
Box 3
TMs, 19 pp.
"The Keeper of the Horses "
Box 3
TMs, 18 pp.
"A Child's Garden of the Irish "
Box 3
TMs, several drafts, ca. 40 pp.
"A Child's Garden of the Irish "
Box 3
TMs, 8 pp.
"Secrets "
Box 3
TMs, 10 pp.
"Secrets "
Box 3
TMs, 14 sheets
"There is a Host Approaching Nigh "
Box 3
galley proof, 7 sheets, with TNS W. to Nancy
"Another Family "
Box 3
TMs, 13 pp.
"Another Family "
Box 3
TMs, 13 pp.
"Another Family "
Box 3
TMs, 13 pp. with TLS, William to Nancy
"Child Training at Harvard "
Box 3
TMs, 25 sheets
"Child Training at Harvard "
Box 3
working vari proof, 12 sheets
"Child Training at Harvard "
Box 3
galley proof, 6 sheets

with TLS William to Nancy and exerpt of letter from Frederic H. Powell

"Miss August "
Box 3
mimeographed typescript, 14 pp.
"Life Later "
Box 3
TMs, 21 sheets
lecture on "Why did you have to write about such unpleasant characters? "
Box 3
TMs, 6 pp.
"The Boil "
Box 3
TMs, ca. 25 sheets
The Boil
Box 3
TMs, 13 pp.
"The Territory of Fiction "
Box 3
TMs, 9 pp.
"The Hidden Approach "
Box 3
TMs, 8 pp.
"The Object "
Box 3
newspaper and magazine clippings, galley proof, 18 sheets
"Dear Beast "
Box 3
TMs, 253 pp.
"Dear Beast "
Box 4
TMs, first draft, ca. 250 pp.
"Dear Beast "
Box 4
TMs, pp. 1-60.
"Flotsam "
Box 4
TMs, 13 pp.
"The Ages of Woman (Rich People) "
Box 4
TMs, with extensive autograph corrections, 26 pp.
"Rich People "
Box 4
TMs, pp. 1, 2 ,7 ,18 ,30 ,21 ,22 ,23 ,24
"The Problem of Bernadine "
Box 4
TMs, ca. 25 sheets
agreement between Houghton Mifflin Company and Nancy Hale to publish "A Summer's Long Dream "in The Best American Short Stories, 1957 1957 Sept. 6
Box 4
agreement between Charles Scribner's Sons and Nancy Hale to publish a book of short stories 1955 Jan 3
Box 4
memorandum of agreement between Nancy Hale and Gollancy Ltd., for publication of A New England Girlhood 1958 Feb. 14
Box 4
"It Was Just a Game "
Box 4
TMs, 3 pp. with autograph notes and newspaper clippings
"I read your book.... "
Box 4
TMs, 20 pp.
"I read your book.... "
Box 4
TMs, 4 seets
story ideas, notes, other miscellaneous material
Box 4
AMs, typescript fragments, ca. 200 items
lecture about attitudes towards literature
Box 4
TMs, 12 sheets
"True Fidelity [?] "or "The Unfaithful [?] "or "Truth [?] "
Box 4
TMs with extensive autograph corrections, ca. 25 sheets
"A Slow Boat to China "
Box 5
TMs, 14 pp.
"A Slow Boat to China "
Box 5
TMs, 15 pp.
What Makes a Memory Unforgettable
Box 5
TMs, 7 pp.
What Makes a Memory Unforgettable
Box 5
TMs, 5 pp.
"Absolutely No Psychology "
Box 5
TMs, 21 pp. plus carbon, 21 pp.
"Another World "
Box 5
TMs, 7 pp.
"My Sister Kate "
Box 5
TMs, 9 pp.
"A Letter Home "
Box 5
TMs, 6 pp. with carbon copy 6 pp.
"Lawyer Leith "
Box 5
TMs, 6 pp.
"The Cruel "
Box 5
TMs, 9 pp.
"Eastern Point "
Box 5
TMs, 9 pp.
"All Things Lovely "
Box 5
TMs, 10 pp.
"One Touch of Malice "
Box 5
TMs, 14 pp.
"Mother "
Box 5
TMs, 12 pp.
"The Child Within "
Box 5
TMs, 24 pp. with carbon 24 pp.
"The Young Girl "
Box 5
TMs, 15 pp.
A Change of Attire
Box 5
TMs, 15pp.
Are Philosophers People
Box 5
TMs, 26 pp.
The Ghost of Anne
Box TMs, 22 pp.
To Kill a Cat
Box 5
TMs, 8 pp.
Souvenir of Dr. Grady
Box 5
TMs, 4 pp.
poems "The Road to Life ""The Maple Sugar Girls at Maple Inn "
Box 5
TMs, 3 pp.
Before the Train
Box 5
TMs, 12 pp.
The King of Fancy's Daughter
Box 5
galley proof, 10 sheets
Introduction to A New England Girlhood
Box 5
TMs, rough draft, 11 sheets
Introduction to [A New England Girlhood]
Box 5
TMs, 5 pp.
A New England Girlhood
Box 5
galley proof, 92 sheets
"Heaven and Hardpan Farm "
Box 5
galley proof, 70 sheets
"Heaven and Hardpan Farm "
Box 5
galley proofs, ca. 70 sheets
"An Introduction to Glamour "
Box 5
galley proofs, 8 pp. with TLS W. to Nancy
Recordings of some of Nancy Hale's short stories
5 records
"Between the Dark and the Daylights "
1 reel of recording tape
"The Great-Grandmother "
1 reel of recording tape