Scope and Contents The collection is comprised mostly of correspondence with newspaper clippings, typescripts of Hale’s writings, and a few photographs. The papers are arranged alphabetically by topic and range in date from 1896 to 1927. The correspondence has several gaps between 1896 and 1926, with the largest between 1905 and 1913. There is not a large amount of correspondence in the papers, but the letters reveal bits of information about several facets of Hale’s life. In the earliest...

Scope and Contents The collection contains mostly correspondence along with some photographs, newspaper clippings, military records, and probate records relating to the Howard and Opal Sheppard family. The papers are arranged alphabetically by topic and type of document and span from 1916 to 1965 with the bulk of the collection dating from 1916 to 1921. Most of the collection is comprised of correspondence between Howard and Opal from 1916 to July 1921, when they married. There are several date gaps in...