Papers of Louis J. Halle [manuscript], 1915-1985 bulk (1947-1985).

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Papers of Louis J. Halle [manuscript], 1915-1985 bulk (1947-1985).

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Include correspondence, articles, book reviews, lecture notes and clippings. The collection consists of Halle's correspondence files. Chief topics include the Cold War, deterrence and control of nuclear weapons; ideology; international relations; literature, especially Shakespeare; ornithology; outer space; philosophy; science; United States history, politics and foreign relations in the 20th century; and wildlife conservation. Topics also include his family, his books, other writings, and lectures, efforts to publish, travels and life in Switzerland; and the writing and careers of his correspondents. Of interest are his Antarctic diary, 1970-1971, his notes on visits to the Shetlands, 1968, 1970, 1972, almost 200 articles by him and typescripts of two lectures by George Kennan, "Philosophy and strategy in America's postwar policy," and "The shattering of the Rooseveltian dream." Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Joseph Alsop, Jacques Barzun,Bernard Baruch, Daniel J. Boorstin, Chester Bowles, William P. Bundy, Rowland Egger, Kenneth W. Ford, J. William Fulbright, Edmund A. Gullion, Walter A. Kaufmann, George F. Kennan, Robert A. Klein, Clyde Kluckhohn, Anthony Lewis, Walter Lippmann, Hans J. Morgenthau, Paul H. Nitze, Charlton Ogburn, Roger Tory Peterson, David Riesman, Sarah Delano Roosevelt (photostat), and Urs Schwarz. Correspondents also include Georges Simenon, Adlai E. Stevenson, Kenneth W. Thompson, Barbara Tuchman, and Stansfield Turner, as well as magazines and companies who published him including the Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, "British birds," Chatto and Windus, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, "Foreign affairs," "Foreign service journal," Harper and Row, Houghton Mifflin Company, John Brockman Associates, and Michael Joseph Limited. Correspondents also include the National Geographic Society, "The new republic," the New York Times Company, Princeton University Press, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, and "Virginia quarterly review."

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