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Abstract:
Psychologist and Clark's first president (1888 - 1920).
It includes correspondence with other well known psychologists, including Sigmund
Freud and Carl Jung, former students, including Lewis Terman and Arnold Gesell,
and faculty including, Franz Boaz, George Blakeslee, and Albert A. Michelson.
Other material includes speeches, articles and photographs.
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Scope and Contents of the Collection
The papers described in this Register are amalgamated from
two segments of the G. Stanley Hall papers, separated for a half-
century. A large quantity of Hall materials, including family
and most professional correspondence, became the property of Dr.
Robert G. Hall after his father's death, and were shipped to his
home in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Hall, for some years, consulted
Dr. Henry D. Sheldon, a Clark alumnus and Dean of the School of
Education at the University of Oregon, on matters of access and
literary rights. Sheldon had made copies of many of Hall's
letters while preparing a projected volume for publication, and
he sent copies of some of the more important items to the Clark
University Library. Attempts by Clark to obtain the originals
did not come to fruition, and in the course of the years a large
portion of the Oregon deposit was destroyed. Surviving originals
and copies of letters to and from Hall and his family, as well as
some scattered professional correspondence (including a number of
original William James letters) were lent to Dorothy Ross by Dr.
Hall in the 1960's. He did this with the understanding that upon
completion of her biography of his father, they would be
deposited at Clark. These are the papers referred to in the Ross
biography as the G. Stanley Hall Papers, or HP.
The second segment of Hall papers, remaining at Clark, was
largely, though not entirely, official correspondence. These
materials too underwent separation and recombination over the
years, with some materials being held in the Registrar's Office,
with others (largely memorabilia or letters valuable for their
signatures) in the Psychology Department, yet others in the
President's Office, and still others in the vault of the Library.
These, plus the Sheldon transcripts, are referred to in the Ross
biography as the Clark University Papers (CUP). After the Robert
Hutchings Goddard Library was opened in 1969, these materials
were gradually assembled under one roof. They were joined, in
the Fall of 1971, by the Oregon segment (HP) as well as by other
materials gathered by Ms. Ross in the preparation of her
biography.
Given the vicissitudes of the manuscripts, it was not
possible to determine the original file order for more than a few
parts of the collection. The two main segments have been
combined into a defensible common classification, largely by
subject since most of the surviving Clark University papers were
already in subject folders. A few anomalies persist, of which
the most important is the fact that at some previous time the
correspondence of President Hall (Clark University) and of
President Sanford (Clark College) with faculty members was
combined into individual faculty folders. The contents of those
folders have not been separated, although in a few cases the
faculty folder will include only Sanford correspondence. As new
discoveries of Hall papers are made, they will be integrated into
this classification unless they obviously belong with another
collection.
The Clark University Archives contains additional Hall
manuscripts. This includes two sets of bound volumes of
Collected Works (cited in the Ross biography as CW), which
include some manuscript articles and addresses, a bound volume of
handwritten tributes to Hall on the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his doctorate, 1903, and a bound letterbook covering the years
1889-1890. Furthermore, there is correspondence with former
Clark students of Hall. These letters were originally filed in
student folders, but were separated out and were put into their
own series in the Hall papers. A few Hall manuscripts can also
be found in other collections held by the University Archives,
such as the George Hubbard Blakeslee papers. A manuscripts card
catalogue, which includes all of these, has been created. The
Archives also holds a large quantity of printed material by and
relating to Hall, as well as photographic material. A lengthy
series of scrapbooks, both annual and on special topics (referred
to in the Ross biography as Clippings,...), provides much
additional information on Hall and the University. G. Stanley
Hall's library is presently divided between the University
Department of Special Collections and the G. Stanley Hall
Memorial Room in the Department of Psychology.
Literary rights in the unpublished writings of G. Stanley
Hall and the Hall family in the Hall papers were transferred in
February, 1972, to the Trustees of Clark University through the
generosity of Dr. Robert Hall's widow, Edith M. Hall, and his
son, Robert M. Hall. Permission to use and to quote from the
Hall papers must be secured from the University Archivist.
Notes, letters, interviews, materials, etc., in Box 32, gathered
for her biography by Ms. Ross, are open without restriction;
quotation may be made without permission from Ms. Ross so long as
the source is duly cited.
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