Oliver Hale papers

Collection

Call Number: YCAL MSS 658

Scope and Contents

The papers consist of writings, a scrapbook, a transcript of an interview, and correspondence by and relating to the American poet and prose writer Oliver Hale. Writings include manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and other writings. The scrapbook contains clippings of Hale's printed poems from various publications. The interview titled "The Poet and His Wife,"was conducted with Hale and his wife by Edward R. Murrow for the radio program "This I Believe." Correspondence includes acceptance letters from various publishers to Hale.

Dates

1936-1998

Creator

Hale, Oliver

Language

English

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The Oliver Hale Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Philip Diamant, 1996-1998.

Arrangement

Organized into seven groupings: I. 1996 Acquisition. II. February 1997 Acquisition. III. March 1997 Acquisition. IV. August 1997 Acquisition. V. September 1997 Acquisition. VI. February 1998 Acquisition. VII. July and November 1998 Acquisitions.

Extent

2.1 Linear Feet (8 boxes)

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.hale

Additional Description

Overview

The papers consist of writings, a scrapbook, an interview, and correspondence by and relating to the American poet and prose writer Oliver Hale. Writings include autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and other writings. The scrapbook contains clippings of Hale's printed poems from publications. The typescript interview transcript, titled "The Poet and His Wife," is an interview with Hale and his wife, Esther, by Edward R. Murrow for the radio program "This I Believe." Correspondence includes acceptance letters from publishers to Hale.

Oliver Hale (1897-1984)

Oliver Hale was the pen name for poetry and prose writer Oscar Hirschmann. He was born in New York City on August 2, 1897. In 1922, he married Esther Bloom, a graphologist, who was also from New York City. Hale died in California on January 30, 1984.

Processing Information

Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.

The collection received preliminary processing at the time of acquisition. Further organization, rehousing, and description were carried out in 2013.

The collection is comprised of material formerly classed as: Uncat ZA MS 507, Uncat ZA MS 512, Uncat ZA MS 518, Uncat ZA MS 534, Uncat ZA MS 552, Uncat ZA File 391, and Uncat ZA File 398. Various acquisitions associated with the collection have not been merged and organized as a whole. Each acquisition is described separately in the contents list below, according to month and year of acquisition.

Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during basic processing.

This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.