Nancy Hale papers [manuscript], 1950.

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Nancy Hale papers [manuscript], 1950.

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."

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University of Virginia. Library

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