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Philip Leslie Hale with his daughter, Nancy, 1909 Photograph by Guild (copyright unknown) [from Nancy Hale Papers]

"I always meant to paint you sitting at a table with breakfast things...." Philip Leslie Hale to his daughter Nancy, the writer, in New York City, circa 1929 Read more...

Ellen Day (“Nelly”) Hale wrote this letter to her mother, Emily (Perkins) Hale, while she was studying painting in Paris with Tony Robert-Fleury in 1883.   "I should like to count as a good painter at Paris, as well as at home." Ellen Day Hale to her mother, 11 March 1883 Read more...

Ellen Day Hale, circa 1884 (photographer unknown)

Lilian Westcott Hale sketching, 1902 (photographer unknown)

Drawing by Lilian Westcott Hale of her daughter, Nancy, circa 1914 (photographic reproduction, photographer unknown)

Lilian Westcott Hale donated her charcoal drawing, "Gardenia Rose" (1912) for the Red Cross to reproduce as this Christmas card during World War I.

Calendar published by the Lend-a-Hand Society featuring inspirational quotations by Edward Everett Hale and images of him and his family See more of this calendar

Announcement of a new monthly journal to be published by the Lend-a-Hand Society, edited by Edward Everett Hale and his sister Susan Hale (undated)

The Hales made charts of family Christmas gifts each year for a book in which family events, games, etc. were recorded.

Hale family gift chart, 1869

Work   (For more on these and related materials, see the Work theme page)

"I have lately got my steam engine into operation, & work two presses by it...." Nathan Hale, Sr., in Boston, to his father Enoch Hale in Westhampton, Massachusetts, 1828   Read more...

In this letter from Lucretia Peabody Hale to her brother Nathan Hale, Jr. she discusses her writing for the Old and New, a periodical edited by Nathan and Edward Everett Hale. Lucretia lived near her lifelong friend Margaret (Harding) White (wife of the Rev. William Orne White) in Keene, New Hampshire, for several years following the death of her mother.

"Another business thing I want to ask you in private, not wanting to trouble Edward with it. What is the schedule of prices? or is not there any? I am highly pleased with my payments, but as Charlie says, want to know on which account to put them--whether $37.50 is for my story unpublished? or for Grimm published? I concluded from the $10 I received for the first that there was a schedule for say $5.00 a page perhaps $6.00?-- Perhaps you can answer all this from your inner consciousness, as I would not care to bother Edward." Lucretia Peabody Hale to her brother Nathan Hale, Jr., circa 1870 Read more...

Lucretia Peabody Hale, circa 1850s (daguerreotype; probably taken by Edward Everett Hale)

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