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Preferred Citation

Louis J. Halle Papers, 1963-1992, Accession #10603-n, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

These additional papers were given to the University of Virginia Library by Louis J. Halle, Jr. , Geneva, Switzerland , on January 13, 1994 .

Funding Note

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

Scope and Content

This addition to the Louis J. Halle, Jr. Papers consists of ca. 400 items (2 Hollinger boxes, ca. .5 linear feet), 1963, 1975-1992, including typescripts of "The Evolution of World Politics," "The Fear of Man," "Notes on Time," and "A Recollection of Birds"; two typescripts of his book The Appreciation of Birds ; and his correspondence with several publishers concerning its publication. There is also some printed material concerning birds scattered throughout the correspondence files.

The majority of the correspondence is with the book's publisher, The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Director of the Press, Jack G. Goellner . Other correspondents in the Johns Hopkins folders include: the Danish illustrator Jens Gregersen , biologist John Bonner (who wrote the foreword), Herb Bailey , manuscript editor Carol Ehrlich , and Jim Johnston , Associate Director.

In the general correspondence about The Appreciation of Birds , Louis J. Halle, Jr. has letters with:

Richard B. McAdoo ( Houghton Mifflin Company )

John Bonner ( Princeton University )

Shirley A. Briggs

Alan Brooke ( Michael Joseph Ltd. )

Kenneth C. Danforth ( National Geographic Society )

Paul Geroudet

Felton L. Gibbons

William B. Goodman ( David R. Godine )

Jens Gregersen (artist & illustrator)

Daniel Halpern (Antaeus - The Ecco Press )

Michael Kenward ( New Scientist )

Lawrence Kilham, M.D.

Barbara S. Kouts (Literary Agent)

Walter H. Lippincott ( Princeton University Press )

Murray Milner, Jr. ( University of Virginia Sociology Dept.)

Charlton Ogburn (excerpt only, 1985 Nov 1)

Austin Olney ( Houghton Mifflin Company )

Robb Reavill ( Cornell University Press )

S. Dillon Ripley ( Smithsonian Institution )

E.F. Rivinus ( Smithsonian Institution Press )

Timothy Seldes ( Russell & Volkening, Inc. )

Gail Vines ( New Scientist )