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Hale, Nathan, 1755-1776. Collection, 1795-1915.

Title: Collection, 1795-1915.

Clippings, postcards, drawings, notes, correspondence, and other memorabilia collected by George E. Hoadley concerning Hale's career, family, relics, and memorials. Also includes several documents and letters by and to family members; a nearly contemporary manuscript about Hale and the British spy Major John Andre; and one book, Memoir of Capt. Nathan Hale (New Haven : S. Babcock, 1844). Persons represented include Alicia Adams Ripley Lawrence, William Lawrence, Enoch Hale, Sarah Hale, Mrs. Poole, and Nathan H. Rose.

ArchivalResource: 47 items.

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Hastings, Mary E. Mary E. Hastings correspondence and statement, ca. 1924.

Title: Mary E. Hastings correspondence and statement, ca. 1924.

Correspondence and statement pertaining to a controversy surrounding the engagement of American patriot Nathan Hale to Alice Adams.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/432089216 View

Stillman, Henry Allyn. Letter from Henry Allyn Stillman to Ernest E. Rogers, 1902 Apr. 26.

Title: Letter from Henry Allyn Stillman to Ernest E. Rogers, 1902 Apr. 26.

Letter to Rogers referring to Rogers's letter telling of dedication of the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse (New London, Conn.) on 17 June 1901 and of himself marching in parade with two other sons of Revolutionary veterans. He had written a letter in the past June to Mr. Trumbull (probably Jonathan Trumbull, 1844-1919), telling him that as a boy of fifteen and a half, he had known Alice Adams (Alicia Adams Ripley Lawrence, the fiancée of Nathan Hale), quite well as an elderly lady. She had a small ivory portrait of Hale which had become lost, and she talked quite a lot about Hale.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Hale, Enoch, 1753-1837,. Alicia, born with every striking charm : ms. poem, [s.d.].

Title: Alicia, born with every striking charm : ms. poem, [s.d.].

A love poem to Alicia. Once attributed to Nathan, it is now thought to be by Enoch. The writing is thought to be either Enoch's or Alicia's.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) in case ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122541740 View

Shriver, Isabel H. Correct story of the romance of Nathan Hale and Alice Adams booklet, [1928].

Title: Correct story of the romance of Nathan Hale and Alice Adams booklet, [1928].

This collection consists of a twelve-page booklet about the romance between Nathan Hale and Alice Adams. The booklet was written by Alice Adams' great granddaughter, Isabel H. Shriver and Mary E. Hastings. Also in the collection is a letter written by Shriver and Hastings donating the booklet to the Kentucky Historical Society and explaining the reasons why they wrote the booklet.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50784473 View

Hale, Enoch, 1753-1837. Letters : to Alicia Adams Ripley, 1779-1780.

Title: Letters : to Alicia Adams Ripley, 1779-1780.

The first letter, 1779 Sept. 28, from Westhampton, Conn., concerns the right of children to receive the Lord's Supper. The second, 1780 Feb. 18, Hatfield, concerns Alicia's reply to an apparent renewal of Enoch's suit. Although she has declared herself "unalterable," he hopes to changeher mind but will say no more of it until he has the opportunity for an explanation.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (5 p.) ; 24 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122610785 View

Shriver, Isabel Hastings. Papers, 1928-1929.

Title: Papers, 1928-1929.

Written statement by the two regarding their grandmother and her relationship with Nathan Hale. Several letters about and to George Dudley Seymour who had written an article which the granddaughters believed contained erroneous material and cast a disrespectful shadow over their grandmother's memory.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54848371 View