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Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1998 Courtney Boissonnault Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #10603-c Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman LibraryUniversity of VirginiaCharlottesville, Virginia 22903USA
 Louis J. Halle, Jr. Papers 1915-1985 10603-c ca. 8,000 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Preferred Citation

Papers of Louis Joseph Halle, 1915-1985, Accession #10603-c, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

 Acquisition Information

These papers were given to the Library by Mr. Louis J. Halle, Jr. of Geneva, Switzerlandon December 30, 1985.

 Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Biographical Sketch

(see attached entries from Who's Who in America, 1986-1987, 44th edition, Vol. I, p. 1161, and Contemporary AuthorsNew Revision Series, Vol. 2, p. 291.)

 Scope and Content

This collection of ca. 8,000 items (25 Hollinger boxes; 8 shelf feet), 1915-1985, consisting of the correspondence, articles, book reviews, lecture notes, and miscellanea of Louis J. Halle, Jr., of Geneva, Switzerland, reflects the versatility and depth of his career and personal interests as a writer, teacher, naturalist, and expert on international relations.

Louis J. Halle, Jr. maintained two types of correspondence files, alphabetical by last name of correspondent and topical (or subject) files. Both contain a wide variety of subjects and correspondents, and will be cited in an index at the end of this guide according to the box and folder number where they can be found. Subjects of a folder are distinguished from correspondents by use of an asterisk attached to all subject entries, such as nuclear war* 2.6 which would be found in folder 6 of box 2. Correspondents with their own files include: Dean Acheson, Bill Bundy, Kenneth Ford, George Kennan, Charlton Ogburn, Urs Schwarz, and Kenneth Thompson.

Several of the topical files deal with the magazines that frequently published Louis J. Halle, Jr. 's articles, such as the Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Republic, Audubon Magazine, National Geographic, British Birds, and The New York Times, and two of his publishers, Houghton Mifflin and Princeton University Press. He also has files concerning individual books: The Nature of Ideology(published as The Ideological Imagination), The Cold War as History, Out of Chaos, The Sea and the Ice, Elements of International Strategy, The Society of Man, Sedge, Spring in Washington, and Hamlet/ Odysseus/ The Passing of Arthur/ Anthony and Cleopatra (published as The Search For the Eternal Norm).

The collection also contains two nature diaries; The Sea and the IceAntarctic diary and his notes on his visits to the Shetlands in 1968, 1970, and 1972.

Other general topics in the subject files include: discussions concerning all aspects of ornithology, United States foreign policy, American history, science, philosophy, the writer's relationship with his publisher, outer space colonization, wildlife conservation, nuclear weapons, and politics.

The lecture and article series include: ad-hoc lectures, lectures concerning " America and the World Since 1945" given at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University, "A Layman's Guide to Nuclear Power," a lecture concerning the "Role of Concepts in International Relations," miscellaneous book reviews, lectures, and talks, newspaper articles, notes, ideas, fragments, miscellaneous printed articles, a seminar on strategic studies regarding the concept of a limited war in the nuclear age, and "Truth, Freedom and the Academic Vocation."

 Organization

This collection arrived in good order at the Library in European classeurs and manila envelopes, with the contents of each clearly labeled by the donor. Those files pertaining to a single subject are in reverse chronological order and those containing alphabetical correspondence are arranged by the last name of the correspondent, thus preserving the original order imposed by Mr. Louis J. Halle, Jr. .

The three series established for these papers are: 1) Alphabetical Correspondence, 2) Topical Correspondence, and 3) Lectures and Articles, although some lectures and articles are scattered throughout the collection.

 Item Listing SERIES I: ALPHABETICAL CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence - A 1958-1972 Box 1 Correspondence with Dean Acheson 1952-1982 Box 1 (2 folders) Correspondence - Ba-Bon 1950-1982 Box 1 Correspondence - Boo-Buz 1953-1979 Box 1 Correspondence - C 1947-1985 Box 1 Correspondence - D-E 1958-1983 Box 1 Correspondence - F 1955-1984 Box 2 Correspondence - Foreign Affairs & Bill Bundy 1971-1984 Box 2 (2 folders) Correspondence with Kenneth Ford 1972-1983 Box 2 (3 folders) Correspondence - G 1953-1983 Box 3 Correspondence - Ha 1952-1984 Box 3 Correspondence - He-Hu 1949-1985 Box 3 Correspondence of the Halle family 1915-1983 Box 3 Correspondence - I 1974-1981 Box 3 Correspondence - J 1952-1984 Box 3 Correspondence - K 1949-1984 Box 3 Correspondence with George Kennan 1964-1984 Box 4 Correspondence - L 1955-1980 Box 4 Correspondence - M 1950-1985 Box 4 Correspondence - N-P 1952-1983 Box 4 Correspondence with Charlton Ogburn 1983-1985 Box 4 Correspondence with Charlton Ogburn 1948-1982 Box 5 (2 folders) Correspondence - Q-R 1948-1983 Box 5 Correspondence - Sa-So 1955-1985 Box 5 Correspondence - St 1956-1979 Box 6 Correspondence with Urs Schwarz 1962-1985 Box 6 (2 folders) Correspondence - T 1954-1982 Box 6 Correspondence with Kenneth W. Thompson 1957-1985 Box 7 (2 folders) Correspondence - U-V 1963-1966 Box 7 Correspondence - Wa 1947-1977 Box 7 Correspondence - We-Wy 1955-1977 Box 7 SERIES II: TOPICAL CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence with the American Foreign Service Journal 1954-1955 Box 8 Correspondence with Audubon Magazine 1964-1977, 1985 Box 8 (5 folders) Correspondence with Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States 1975-1982 Box 8 Correspondence with Audubon Naturalist Society 1958-1974 Box 9 Correspondence re Lectures given at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University 1979-1980 Box 9 Correspondence with British Birds 1961-1984 Box 9 Papers re the career of Louis Halle, Jr. 1941-1960 Box 9 (2 folders) Correspondence with Chatto & Windus re The Cold War as History 1965-1971 Box 9 Correspondence with Harper & Row re The Cold War as History 1965-1971 Box 10 Correspondence re Miscellaneous Options and the Index of The Cold War as History 1966-1970 Box 10 Correspondence re Opinions & Criticisms of The Cold War as History 1965-1968 Box 10 Correspondence & Notes re The Cold War as History 1965-1966 Box 10 Notes re The Cold War as History ca. 1963-1965 Box 10 Ditchley Meeting re Strategic Studies 1972 Box 10 Correspondence re "1898: The United States in the Pacific" 1955-1956 Box 11 Correspondence re Elements of International Strategy 1980-1982 Box 11 Material for a volume of essays in historiography 1965-1969 Box 11 Graduate Institute of International Studies 1956-1985 Box 11 (3 folders) Exchanges with the Student Association of the Graduate Institute of International Studies 1974 Box 11 Correspondence with Edmund Gullion and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy 1966-1975 Box 12 (2 folders) Correspondence on Hamlet/Odysseus/The Passing of Arthur/Anthony and Cleopatra 1967-1980 Box 12 (2 folders) Correspondence with Houghton Mifflin Company 1976-1985 Box 12 (2 folders) Correspondence with Houghton Mifflin Company 1970-1976 Box 13 Correspondence re Bob Klein and his book Sovereign Equality Among States 1962-1974, 1985 Box 13 (2 folders) Correspondence with National Geographic Society 1981-1984 Box 13 (2 folders) Correspondence re The Nature of Ideology published as The Ideological Imagination 1971-1975 Box 13 (2 folders) Correspondence re The Nature of Ideology published as The Ideological Imagination 1970-1971 Box 14 Correspondence with The New Republic 1962-1975 Box 14 (4 folders) Correspondence with The New Republic 1957-1961 Box 15 (3 folders) Correspondence and Articles for the New York Times 1961-1975 Box 15 (3 folders) Correspondence and Articles for the New York Times 1954-1960 Box 16 (2 folders) Lt. Calley article for the New York Times 1971 Box 16 Reviews & Correspondence re On Facing the& 1985 World 1947-1951, 1985 Box 16 Correspondence & Source Materials re Out of Chaos 1969-1978 Box 16 Reviews & Correspondence re the British publication of Out of Chaos 1974-1978 Box 16 Correspondence with Princeton University Press 1955-1980 Box 17 (5 folders) Program for Strategic and International Security Studies (P.S.I.S.) 1979-1984 Box 17 Correspondence & Articles re the Protection of Nature 1961-1970 Box 18 "The Question of Commitment" 1972-1974 Box 18 Correspondence with Scott Meredith Literary Agency and John Brockman Associates 1982-1983 Box 18 Correspondence with Houghton Mifflin Company re The Sea and the Ice (American edition) 1971-1980 Box 18 Correspondence with Michael Joseph LTD re The Sea and the Ice (English edition) 1971-1978 Box 18 Reviews of The Sea and the Ice 1972-1977 Box 18 Correspondence re The Sea and the Ice 1971-1972 Box 18 Correspondence with Audubon re The Sea and the Ice 1971-1973 Box 19 Correspondence with readers of the Audubon issue on Antarctica 1973-1974 Box 19 The Sea and the Ice Antarctic Diary 1970-1971 Box 19 Correspondence & Notes re the Antarctic Venture 1969-1971 Box 19 Correspondence re the Security Issue 1954-1955 Box 19 Correspondence re Sedge 1959-1964 Box 19 Notes & Correspondence re Shetland Visits 1968-1983 Box 20 (2 folders) Correspondence re The Society of Man 1963-1969 Box 20 (2 folders) Correspondence re Space-colonization 1978-1980 Box 20 Correspondence re Spring in Washington 1947-1956 Box 20 Correspondence re Spring in Washington 1945-1947 Box 21 Correspondence re Symposium on "What is Happening in Soviet Russia?" 1956 Box 21 Letters to the Times Literary Supplement 1965-1980 Box 21 University of Virginia Projects & Correspondence 1954-1957 Box 21 Correspondence with The Virginia Quarterly Review 1963-1985 Box 21 (2 folders) SERIES III: LECTURES & ARTICLES Ad-hoc Lectures 1950-1984 Box 22 (4 folders) Lectures re "America and the World Since 1945" given at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins School 1980 Box 22 Lectures re American Foreign Policy given at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins School 1978-1979 Box 23 (4 folders) A Layman's Guide to Nuclear Power; The Human Nature of International Conflict 1972-1974 Box 23 Lectures re the Role of Concepts in International Relations 1958-1959 Box 24 (2 folders) Miscellaneous Book Reviews 1954-1956 Box 24 Miscellaneous Lectures and Talks 1955-1959, 1966, 1971 Box 24 Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles 1950-1982 Box 24 Miscellaneous Notes, Ideas, & Fragments 1952-1955 Box 24 Miscellaneous Printed Halle Articles 1938-1984 Box 25 (3 folders) Seminar "Strategic Studies" at the Graduate Institute of International Studies 1970-1975 Box 25 "Truth, Freedom, and the Academic Vocation," A Valedictory Lecture at the Graduate Institute of International Studies 1974 Box 25