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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1901/1924", "value"=>"1901-1924"}
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1901
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1924
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1901
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1901
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1924
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{"value"=>"Swinburne Hale papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"Swinburne Hale (1884?-1937) was a lawyer in New York City. He was active in the socialist movement as a member of the Committee of Forty-Eight. An aspiring poet, he was involved briefly with the magazine New France. His first wife, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson (1883-1967), was a stage actress and feminist author and lecturer. Collection consists primarily of Hale's personal correspondence from family and friends. Correspondence includes letters from his first wife, his mother, and his friend Greta R. Hercz. Also, newsclippings and other printed matter, a few writings of Hale, and correspondence and juvenalia of Hercz. Papers do not reflect Hale's law career or his activities with the socialist movement."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Swinburne Hale papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Hale, Swinburne, 1884?-1937", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Swinburne Hale was born in Ithaca, N. Y., probably in 1884, the oldest of four children. His father, William Gardner Hale, was a classical scholar and one of the founders of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome and its first director, and head of the department of Latin at the then new University of Chicago. His mother, Harriet Knowles (Swinburne) Hale, was a Vassar alumna, active in various organizations and sympathetic to woman suffrage. Gardner Hale, his brother, was a painter and married to the author Marice Rutledge. His sister Margaret was married to the artist Ralph M. Pearson and his youngest sister Virginia was also an artist.</p> <p>Hale attended Harvard University and obtained his A. B. in 1905. He then went on to Harvard Law School and graduated in 1908 with an LL. B. After his studies, he moved to New York City and worked for the law firm of Masten and Nichols. Later he founded Ehlerman, Hale and Wright. In the late 1910s he founded another law firm, Hale, Nelles and Schorr, with his friend Walter Nelles.</p> <p>Hale married twice. In 1910 he married Beatrice Forbes-Robertson (1883-1967), a successful stage actress and niece of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. Mrs. Hale continued working after her marriage, became a woman suffrage advocate and feminist and prolific author and lecturer. They had three daughters: Sanchia and the twins Rosemary and Clemency. They were divorced in 1920. After the divorce, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale returned to England, but visited the U. S. A. on many occasions and remained involved in the women's rights movement. Hale's second wife, whom he married in 1921, was Marie Tudor Garland. She had caused headlines in 1912 when she forfeited a large estate by marrying her second husband Francis Cushing Green. Between 1922 and 1924 Hale spent most of his time in Taos, New Mexico and had a relationship with Greta R. Hercz, a young art student from Chicago.</p> <p>Hale was briefly involved with the publication of a new magazine called New France (1917-1921), that dealt with relations between the United States and France and the reconstruction of France after World War I.</p> <p>In 1918 Hale served as a Captain of the Intelligence Division to the General Staff of the U. S. Army. In 1920 Hale, together with Alfred Bettman, former Special Assistant U. S. Attorney General in charge of sedition prosecutions, testified before the Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives, on the need for more sedition laws. Hale was active in the socialist movement, was a member of the Committee of Forty-eight and played a role in their Chicago convention in 1920 when the Committee of Forty-eight and the Labor Party tried to form a third major party. The same year he was counsel for some communists who where taken to Ellis Island for deportation.</p> <p>A collection of his poems, The demon's notebook: verse and perverse, was published in 1923 by N. L. Brown, N. Y.</p> <p>Hale had a history of nervous problems, suffered a major breakdown in 1925 and died in 1937 at the age of 53 in a sanitarium in Westport, Connecticut.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Swinburne Hale Papers consist primarily of personal correspondence (about 600 letters) from family and friends, documenting a small portion of the private life of Swinburne Hale, from about 1908, when Hale moved to New York City, to 1924, when he was living in Taos, N. M. The papers do not reflect his activities as a lawyer or his socialist sympathies.</p> <p>About 140 letters are from his first wife, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale, and deal primarily with family matters but also contain some observations of the many people and places she visited while touring the USA as a speaker on feminism, as well as some of her views on marriage. Some reference in the letters is also made to Hale's aspiration to become a poet and to his brief involvement with the magazine New France.</p> <p>The letters from his family pertain mostly to family matters. The majority of the letters were written by Hale's mother, either from Chicago, where his parents lived, or from the family compound, Aguiden Lodge, in Kineo, Maine, where they spent summers.</p> <p>Hale wanted to become a poet and some letters from Mrs. Warren of Tahanto Farms and one from Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetic Verse reflect these aspirations. Some other correspondents of interest are the playwright H. W. Bynner, the editor (and Hale's uncle) W. C. Brownell and the scholar and philosopher G. H. Palmer.</p> <p>Shortly after his second marriage, Hale separated and tried to obtain a divorce, documented in some correspondence between him, Walter Nelles and R. Renegan. Around that same time, he met Greta R. Hercz and their correspondence reflects the intense relationship they had during 1922-1924.</p> <p>Included in this collection, although not related, are some correspondence and juvenilia of Greta R. Hercz.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Swinburne Hale papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1285#c1037976'>1. Incoming correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1285#c1038003'>2. Outgoing correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series includes some early letters sent by Hale to his mother, including one (1915) discussing his new law firm, and some love letters to Evelyn (last name unknown) (December 1918-Jan. 1919). The bulk of this series consists of his love letters to Greta R. Hercz (May 1923-Jan. 1924), and deal primarily with their relationship, his life out West, building a house, and his health, both physical and mental.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1285#c1038007'>3. Other correspondence / miscellaneous materials</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains two letters to Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale, a copy of a letter from Olive Schreiner to Gertrude Forbes-Robertson (Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale's mother), discussing Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale's book and dress reform, two letters to Hale's sister, and one to his mother, from his aunt Virginia Swinburne.</p> <p>Also included is an office memorandum from the law firm of Ehlerman, Hale and Wright, detailing a new profit-sharing plan for the employees. This series also contains some correspondence (October 1923-June 1924) between Hale, Nelles and Renegan (a Santa Fe lawyer) about Hale's divorce and related real estate issues.</p> <p>Newspaper clippings included are about Hale's engagement and upcoming marriage to Beatrice Forbes-Robertson, a full page newspaper article (Fort Wayne Gazette, April 24, 1921) about Hale's second wife, Marie Tudor Garland, and a copy of an article about the fiftieth anniversary of the Class of 1873 (Vassar College) and the Brownell Prize Fund, in memory of Virginia Swinburne, Hale's aunt and the wife of W. C. Brownell (Boston Evening Transcript, June 8, 1923).</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1285#c1038012'>4. Greta R. Hercz materials</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of letters sent to Hercz by her family and friends in 1913 and from 1922 to 1924. Also included are a notebook and some juvenilia.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Five series: I. Incoming Correspondence; II. Outgoing Correspondence; III. Other Correspondence/Miscellaneous Materials; IV. Greta R. Hercz Materials; V. Oversize Materials</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchased from Serendipity Books, Berkeley, California, 1995.</p>"}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Marleen Buelinckx, July 1995. This version produced 2003</p>"}
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2.3 linear feet (8 boxes, 1 oversize folder)