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John Hay (1915-2011) papers (Ms. 2007.008)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
Fax: 401-863-2093
E-mail: hay@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Correspondence
24.0 folders

Box 1, Folder 1-24

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Letter to John Hay
 1939
Box 1, Folder 2 Letters to John Hay
 1950-1959
Box 1, Folder 3 Letters to John Hay
 1960-1962
Box 1, Folder 4 Letters to John Hay
 1963-1969
Box 1, Folder 5 Letters to John Hay
 1970-1977
Box 1, Folder 6 Letters to John Hay
 1982-1986
Box 1, Folder 7 Letters to John Hay
 1991
Box 1, Folder 8 Letters to John Hay
 1992-1994
Box 1, Folder 8a Letters to John Hay
 1996-2005
Box 1, Folder 8b Letters to John Hay
 2006-2011
Box 1, Folder 9 Letters to John Hay
 undated
Box 1, Folder 10 Letters from John Hay to his editors
 undated
Box 6, Folder 19 Letters to Diane Bouchard and her father Tom Bouchard
 1957-1998, undated
Box 1, Folder 11 Letters to Clarence Hay
 1960-1964
Box 1, Folder 12 Letter to Clara Stone Hay from Elisabeth Reid
Contents Note: Letter from Elisabeth Reid, New York City, providing Mrs. Hay with the address of the painter John Hanson Walker in London. Mr. Walker painted a portrait of Clara Hay in oil on canvas in 1887 which is part of the Brown University Portrait Collection.
 10 May [1887?]
Box 1, Folder 13 Kent D. Kehs letters
 1969
Box 1, Folder 14 Letter to the editor
 1959?
Box 1, Folder 15 Letter to R.P. Holdsworth from Francis W. Sargent
 1959 Jul 14
Box 1, Folder 16 Letters to Peter Matson
 1978
Box 1, Folder 17 Texaco letter to stockholders
 1960
Box 1, Folder 18 Richard K. Winslow letters
 1963
Box 1, Folder 19 Atlantic Shore correspondence between John Hay and Peter Farb
Contents Note: Accession Number: A55840[8] 2, 4-25
 1962
Box 1, Folder 20 Atlantic Shore correspondence between John Hay and Peter Farb
Contents Note: Accession Number: A55840[8] 26-55
 1963
Box 1, Folder 21 Atlantic Shore correspondence between John Hay and Peter Farb
Contents Note: Accession Number: A55840[8] 56-73
 1964
Box 1, Folder 22 Atlantic Shore correspondence between John Hay and Peter Farb
Contents Note: Accession Number: A55840[8] 74-116
 1965 Jan-May
Box 1, Folder 23 Atlantic Shore correspondence between John Hay and Peter Farb
Contents Note: Accession Number: A55840[8] 117-144
 1965 Jun-Dec
Box 1, Folder 24 Atlantic Shore correspondence between John Hay and Peter Farb
Contents Note: Accession Number: A55840[8] 145-198
 1966-1969

Series 2. Subject files
84.0 folders

Box 1, Folder 25-108

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 25 Across Arctic America
Box 1, Folder 26 Ads for Hay books
Box 1, Folder 27 Advertising information (Harper and Row)
Box 1, Folder 28 Alewives
Box 1, Folder 29 American Indian dancing
Box 1, Folder 30 Employees of the American Museum of Natural History
Box 1, Folder 31 Ansel Adam's charter address
Box 1, Folder 32 Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Box 1, Folder 33 Beyond the Limits - Dennis Maddows
Box 1, Folder 34 Biographical information of John Hay (1915-2011)
Box 1, Folder 35 Bird rescue
Box 1, Folder 36 Books to read
Box 1, Folder 37 Botany
Box 1, Folder 38 Box turtles
Box 1, Folder 38a Bremen, Maine
Contents Note: Includes annotations about the location of John Hay's tract.
 1970
Box 1, Folder 39 Buffalo
Box 1, Folder 39a Butteflies Across Cape Cod: A Guide to Fnding, Attracting, and Observing Butterflies on the Cape
 2004
Box 1, Folder 40 Cape Cod
Box 1, Folder 41 Cape Cod Conservation Congress
 1969
Box 1, Folder 42 The Cape Codder (Orleans, MA)
 1964 May 03
Box 1, Folder 43 The Cape Codder (Orleans, MA)
 1965 Oct 07
Box 1, Folder 44 Cape Cod Junior Museum
Box 1, Folder 45 Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
Box 1, Folder 46 Chimney sweeping
Box 1, Folder 46a Clarence L. Hay as Pocahontas for the play "The Fate Fakirs" at Harvard University - 2 photographs
 1908
Box 1, Folder 46b Clarence L. Hay Cottage, Newbury, NH - Inventory of contents
 1999
Box 1, Folder 47 Conservation commissions and chairmen, Massachusetts
 1962
Box 1, Folder 48 Cummington School of the Arts
Box 1, Folder 48a Damariscotta River Association - "Why You Should Support the DRA"
Box 1, Folder 49 Dennis (Massachusetts) map
Box 1, Folder 50 Discovering the Americas Again
Contents Note: Lopez, Barry
Box 1, Folder 51 Earth Day
 1980 Apr
Box 1, Folder 51a Eskimo
Box 1, Folder 52 Falmouth Enterprise (Falmouth, MA)
 1959 Jul 17
Box 1, Folder 53 Fish populations
Box 1, Folder 54 Franconia Notch, New Hampshire
Box 1, Folder 55 George Bushes
Contents Note: Restion, James
Box 1, Folder 56 Grass
Box 1, Folder 57 Hemlock wooly adelgide
Box 1, Folder 58 I Sailed With Rasmussen
Contents Note: Freuchen, Peter
Box 1, Folder 59 Indiana bat
Box 1, Folder 60 Iruska Trait-Complex Diffusion Diagram
Box 1, Folder 61 The Island: winter
Box 1, Folder 62 John Burroughs Medal
Box 1, Folder 63 John Hay Colloquium
Box 1, Folder 64 John Milton Hay
Box 1, Folder 65 Lecture at the Mitchell College, New London Conn.
 1966
Box 1, Folder 66 Lectures at Dartmouth College
 1972
Box 1, Folder 67 Ted Levin
Box 1, Folder 68 Maine State parks
Box 1, Folder 69 Man and nature
Box 1, Folder 70 Manomet Bird Observatory, Plymouth, MA
Box 1, Folder 71 Monadnock, Steamtown and Northern Railroad ticket
Box 1, Folder 72 Monarch butterfly migration
Box 1, Folder 73 Mono Lake, CA
Box 1, Folder 74 Mount Sunapee Resort
Box 1, Folder 75 Nassau, Bahamas
Box 1, Folder 76 National Wild Flower Research Center recommended species for Maine
Box 1, Folder 77 Nature studies for children
Box 1, Folder 78 Nene report
Box 1, Folder 79 New York Times Book Review (New York, NY)
 1963 May 05
Box 1, Folder 80 Night Herons
Box 1, Folder 81 Oysters
Box 1, Folder 82 Pilot whales
Box 1, Folder 83 Poem, Untitled
Box 1, Folder 84 William Poster on Hay's poetry
 1949 Nov
Box 1, Folder 84a A Prayer of the Night Chant (Navajo)
Box 1, Folder 85 Publishers
Box 1, Folder 86 Respect for the Earth
Box 1, Folder 87 Salt marshes
 1965
Box 1, Folder 88 School building use permit
 1956
Box 1, Folder 89 Seabirds
 1963
Box 1, Folder 90 Seals
Box 1, Folder 91 Shores of Perception: John Hay and the Practice of Exultation by Richard Hunt
 2003
Box 1, Folder 92 Siŋté Glešká (Spotted Tail Tiger) and Leonard Hay
Contents Note: Photograph. Caption on back of frame reads: "Sin - Taga - Liska - 'Spotted Tail Tiger,' the noblest Indian of modern times and whom it was my pleasure to know personally and of showe ates I could judge officially. Murdered August 5, 1881. Leonard Hay, Captain of Infantry, A.A.A.G. District of the Black Hills"
 circa 1870s
Box 1, Folder 93 Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests - speech by John Hay
Box 1, Folder 94 Soil seed banks
Box 1, Folder 95 Songbird migration
 1962
Box 2, Folder 1 St. Paul's School
Contents Note: Alumni Horae, Autumn 1962
 1962
Box 2, Folder 1a St. Paul's School
Contents Note: History I class notebooks
 circa 1931
Box 2, Folder 1b Stamford Museum and Natural Center
 1960
Box 2, Folder 2 Standard Times (New Bedford, MA)
 1959 Apr 03
Box 2, Folder 56 State of Maine
Contents Note: "Expression of sentiment" from the 121st Legislature recognizing the work of John Hay as an "educator, author and naturalist."
 2003
Box 2, Folder 2a Stony Brook Conservation Committee
Box 2, Folder 2b Terns populations
 1983
Box 2, Folder 2.3 Terns
 1989-1991
Box 2, Folder 3a Texas Observer (Austin, TX)
 1958 Mar 21
Box 2, Folder 3b Texas Observer (Austin, TX)
 1958 Mar 28
Box 2, Folder 4 Texas Observer (Austin, TX)
 1958 Apr 04
Box 2, Folder 4a Toynbee and religion
 1955
Box 2, Folder 4b Trawler accident, Cape Cod
 1959
Box 2, Folder 5 William G. Vinal
 1936-1956
Box 2, Folder 5a Warblers
 1977
Box 2, Folder 5b Whitman poem
 1960
Box 2, Folder 6 Whale stranding: Brewster, Mass. Beach
 1988
Box 2, Folder 6a Wildlife tours
 1965
Box 2, Folder 6b Woods Hole research fleet
 1959

Series 3. Book reviews
11.0 folders

Box 1-2

Container Description Date
Box 6, Folder 1 Atlantic Shore
 1966-1967
Box 6, Folder 2 A Beginner's Faith in Things Unseen
 1995
Box 6, Folder 3 The Bird of Light
 1991-1992
Box 6, Folder 4 The Great Beach
 1963-1964
Box 6, Folder 5 The Immortal Wilderness
 1986-1987
Box 6, Folder 6 In Defense of Nature
 1969-1970
Box 6, Folder 7 In the Company of Light
 1998
Box 6, Folder 8 Mind the Gap: The Education of a Nature Writer
 2004
Box 6, Folder 9 Nature's Year
 1961-1962
Box 6, Folder 10 The Primal Alliance
 1971
Box 6, Folder 11 The Run
 1959-1967
Box 6, Folder 12 A Sense of Nature
 1962
Box 6, Folder 13 Spirit of Survival
 1974
Box 6, Folder 14 Undiscovered Country
 1982-1984

Series 4. Writings
147.0 folders

Box 2-5

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 7 Alewives (draft)
Box 2, Folder 7a Ancient Man and the Planet Eaters
 2006
Box 2, Folder 8 Annuals
Box 2, Folder 9 The Atlantic Shore (book cover and ad)
Box 2, Folder 10 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 1, draft 1)
Box 2, Folder 11 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 2, draft 1)
Box 2, Folder 12 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 3, draft 1)
Box 2, Folder 13 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 4, draft 1)
Box 2, Folder 14 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 5, draft 1)
Box 2, Folder 15 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 6, draft 1)
Box 2, Folder 16 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 7, draft 1)
Box 2, Folder 17 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 8, draft 1)
Box 2, Folder 18 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 9, draft 1)
Box 2, Folder 19 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 10, draft 1)
Box 2, Folder 20 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 11, draft 1)
Box 2, Folder 21 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 12, draft 1)
Box 2, Folder 22 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 1, draft 2)
Box 2, Folder 23 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 2, draft 2)
Box 2, Folder 24 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 3, draft 2)
Box 2, Folder 25 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 4, draft 2)
Box 2, Folder 26 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 5, draft 2)
Box 2, Folder 27 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 6, draft 2)
Box 2, Folder 28 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 7, draft 2)
Box 2, Folder 29 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 8, draft 2)
Box 2, Folder 30 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 9, draft 2)
Box 2, Folder 31 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 10, draft 2)
Box 2, Folder 32 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 11, draft 2)
Box 2, Folder 33 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 12, draft 2)
Box 2, Folder 34 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 1, draft 3)
Box 2, Folder 35 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 2, draft 3)
Box 2, Folder 36 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 4, draft 3)
Box 2, Folder 37 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 5, draft 3)
Box 2, Folder 38 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 6, draft 3)
Box 2, Folder 39 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 7, draft 3)
Box 2, Folder 40 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 8, draft 3)
Box 2, Folder 41 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 9, draft 3)
Box 2, Folder 42 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 10, draft 3)
Box 2, Folder 43 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 11, draft 3)
Box 2, Folder 44 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 12, draft 3)
Box 2, Folder 45 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 1, draft 4)
Box 2, Folder 46 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 2, draft 4)
Box 2, Folder 47 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 5, draft 4)
Box 2, Folder 48 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 7, draft 4)
Box 2, Folder 49 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 8, draft 4)
Box 2, Folder 50 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 1, draft 5)
Box 2, Folder 51 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 2, draft 5)
Box 2, Folder 52 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 7, draft 5)
Box 2, Folder 53 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 8, draft 5)
Box 2, Folder 54 The Atlantic Shore (chapter 2, draft 6)
Box 2, Folder 55 The Atlantic Shore (editing notes)
Box 3, Folder 1 The Atlantic Shore (final draft with corrections)
Box 3, Folder 1a The Atlantic Shore (notes for appendix)
Box 3, Folder 1b The Atlantic Shore (notes for text)
Box 3, Folder 1c The Atlantic Shore (proposed illustrations)
Box 6, Folder 20 Attitudes Toward Nature
 1966
Box 3, Folder 1d The Autumn Trees
Box 3, Folder 1e Bird of Light (galley proof)
Box 3, Folder 2 Bird of Light (typescript A)
Box 3, Folder 3 Bird of Light (typescript B)
Box 3, Folder 4 Bird of Light (unbound final copy)
Box 3, Folder 5 Birds (draft and notes)
Box 3, Folder 6 Birds in Space (draft, notes, and final copy)
Box 3, Folder 7 Book reviews by John Hay
Box 3, Folder 8 Buffalo (draft and notes)
Box 3, Folder 9 Cape Cod: It's People and Their History by Henry C. Kittredge (post-epilogue, draft, and proof)
Box 3, Folder 9a The Communication of Nature
Contents Note: Article published in Massachusetts Review, Spring 1975, vol. 16, no.2
 1975
Box 3, Folder 10 Depth of Behavior (draft)
Box 3, Folder 11 Desert (draft and notes)
Box 3, Folder 11a The Desertion of Space
Box 3, Folder 12 Desertion of the Fishes (draft)
Box 3, Folder 13 Desertion of the Fishes (final copy)
Box 6, Folder 21 Earth's Eye
 undated
Box 3, Folder 13a Exodus- The Fry
 2001
Box 3, Folder 14 A Faire Bay (foreword)
Box 3, Folder 14a A Faire Bay (drafts and notes)
 circa 1987
Box 3, Folder 15 The Fells, New Hampshire (draft)
Box 3, Folder 16 Fire in the Plants (draft and notes)
Box 3, Folder 17 Fire in the Plants (final copy)
Box 3, Folder 18 Grass (draft and notes)
Box 3, Folder 19 Grass (draft and notes 2)
Box 3, Folder 20 Grass (draft and notes 3)
Box 3, Folder 21 Grass (final copy)
Box 3, Folder 22 Grass dance (draft and notes 1)
Box 3, Folder 23 Grass dance (draft and notes 2)
Box 3, Folder 24 Grasses (draft)
Box 3, Folder 25 The Great Beach (chapters 1-7, draft 1)
Box 3, Folder 26 The Great Beach (chapters 8-14, draft 1)
Box 3, Folder 27 The Great Beach (chapters 1-7, draft 2)
Box 3, Folder 28 The Great Beach (chapters 8-14, draft 2)
Box 3, Folder 29 The Great Beach (forward and notes)
Box 3, Folder 30 The Great Beach (excerpts)
Contents Note: Published: So. Lincoln, MA : Audubon Society.
 1963 Aug
Box 3, Folder 31 The Great Beach (chapters 1-7, final draft)
Box 3, Folder 32 The Great Beach (chapter 8-14, final draft)
Box 3, Folder 33 The Great Beach (final draft carbon copy 1)
Box 3, Folder 34 The Great Beach (final draft carbon copy 2)
Box 3, Folder 35 The Great Beach (5 notebooks)
Box 3, Folder 36 The Great Beach
Contents Note: Article published in Sports Illustrated (Chicago, IL).
 1961 Sep 21
Box 4, Folder 1 Immortal Wilderness: Custodians of Space (final proof of one of the chapters)
Box 4, Folder 2 Immortal Wilderness: Custodians of Space (galley proof)
Box 4, Folder 3 Immortal Wilderness: Custodians of Space (typescript)
Box 4, Folder 4 Inner Earth (draft)
Box 4, Folder 4a John Burroughs Medal acceptance speech
 1964
Box 4, Folder 5 The Lifeline of the Planets (draft and notes)
Box 4, Folder 5a The Light That Comes From Below
Contents Note: Article published in The Commonweal, Vol. 50, No. 18, Aug 12, 1949 about an English translation of The Diary of a Writer by Dostoievsky.
 1949
Box 4, Folder 6 Listening to the Wind (draft)
Box 4, Folder 7 Man and Nature
Box 4, Folder 8 Mind the Gap (drafts)
Box 4, Folder 9 Nature in New Hampshire (draft with notes)
Box 4, Folder 10 Nature's Year (draft 1)
Box 4, Folder 11 Nature's Year (draft 2)
Box 4, Folder 12 Nature's Year (draft 3)
Box 4, Folder 13 Nature's Year (draft 1 with notes)
Box 4, Folder 14 Nature's Year (draft 2 with notes)
Box 4, Folder 15 Nature's Year (draft 3 with notes)
Box 4, Folder 16 Nature's Year: March-June (revised draft)
Box 4, Folder 17 Nature's Year: July-February (revised draft)
Box 4, Folder 18 Nature's Year (final draft 1)
Box 4, Folder 19 Nature's Year (final draft 2)
Box 4, Folder 20 Nature's Year notebook
Box 4, Folder 21 Nature's Year selections
Box 4, Folder 22 North Star (typescript of a poem)
Box 4, Folder 23 Notebook
 1951
Box 4, Folder 24 Notebook
 1985-1986
Box 4, Folder 25 Notebook
 1987
Box 4, Folder 26 Notebook
 1992
Box 4, Folder 26a Notebook
 2005-2010
Box 4, Folder 26b Notebook
 undated
Box 4, Folder 27 Notebooks (undated 1)
Box 4, Folder 28 Notebooks (undated 2)
Box 4, Folder 28a Ode to a Faire Bay
 1990
Box 4, Folder 29 Plants (draft)
Box 4, Folder 30 Plants, salt marsh (draft)
Box 4, Folder 31 Poems
 1958-1993, undated
Box 4, Folder 32 The Poet
Contents Note: An essay about Conrad Aiken.
Box 4, Folder 33 Rachel Carson Essay
 2006
Box 4, Folder 34 The Resplendent Quetzal
Box 4, Folder 35 The Ring
Contents Note: Read at the marriage of Kitty Hay and Christopher Spicer in St. Andrews Church, Newcastle, ME on August 13, 1988.
Box 5, Folder 1 The Run (draft and notes 1)
Box 5, Folder 2 The Run (draft and notes 2)
Box 5, Folder 3 The Run (draft and notes chapter 5)
Box 5, Folder 4 The Run (final draft)
 1959
Box 5, Folder 5 The Run (notebook 1)
Box 5, Folder 6 The Run (notebook 2)
Box 5, Folder 7 The Run (paste up 1)
 1965
Box 5, Folder 8 The Run (paste up 2)
 1965
Box 5, Folder 9 The Run (trial runs)
Box 5, Folder 10 Salmon (typescript)
Box 5, Folder 11 The Shore in Human Hands (excerpts)
Contents Note: Excerpts from the issue published: New York : Audubon.
 1966 May-June
Box 5, Folder 12 Sketchbook
 1954-1955
Box 5, Folder 12a Spirit of Survival
 1974
Box 5, Folder 12b Stranded
 1992
Box 5, Folder 13 Swallows (draft with notes)
Box 5, Folder 14 Swallows (final draft)
Box 5, Folder 15 Swallows and swallowtales (draft and corrections)
Box 5, Folder 16 Swallows and swallowtales (editor's corrections)
Box 5, Folder 16a Table Manners
Box 5, Folder 17 Technology and Modern Society (typescript)
Box 5, Folder 18 Terns (draft and notes)
Box 5, Folder 19 Terns in Maine (draft and corrections)
Box 5, Folder 20 Terns in Training (draft and corrections)
Box 5, Folder 21 A Tree and a Star (final drafts)
Box 5, Folder 22 A Tree and a Star (fragments with notes)
Box 5, Folder 23 A Tree and a Star (2 drafts: p. 1-20)
Box 5, Folder 24 The Undiscovered Country
 circa 1981
Box 5, Folder 25 The Undiscovered Country
 1981
Box 5, Folder 26 The Undiscovered Country (pgs.76-201)
 circa 1981
Box 5, Folder 27 The Undiscovered Country
 1982
Box 5, Folder 27a A Walk on the Great Beach
 1960
Box 5, Folder 28 What Happened to Eternity
Box 5, Folder 29 Unidentified drafts and notes 1
Box 5, Folder 30 Unidentified drafts and notes 2
Box 5, Folder 31 Unidentified drafts and notes 3
Box 6, Folder 15 Unidentified drafts and notes 4
Box 6, Folder 16 Unidentified drafts and notes 5
Box 6, Folder 17 Unidentified drafts and notes 6
Box 6, Folder 18 Unidentified drafts and notes 7