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Paul Briand (1920-1986)

Papers, 1957-1978

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11 Hollinger boxes & 2 Clamshell boxes (4 cu.ft.)

About Paul Briand, Jr.:

Major Paul L. Briand, Jr. was a World War II veteran, a 1948 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, and a commissioned officer in the US Air Force. In 1951 the military sent Briand to Columbia University, where he acquired his master’s degree in English. When the Air Force Academy opened in 1955, Briand was hired to teach in the English department, and he became an associate professor in 1959 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Denver. Major Briand published his first book, Daughter of the Sky, a biography of Amelia Earhart, in April of 1960. His second book, In Search of Paradise, a double biography of the famous writing team of Charles Nordhoff and James Hall, was completed six years later. In 1967, the State University of New York, Oswego, appointed Briand as a full professor and he taught there until his death in 1986.

About the Paul Briand, Jr. papers:

The Paul Briand Collection primarily contains correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, photographs and other information relating to Daughter of the Sky and In Search of Paradise, his two major books. Also included in the collection are Briand’s college and graduate school papers and as well as articles he published about teaching within a multi-media curriculum.

Folder Listing:

  1. Personal Papers
  2. Daughter of the Sky (Amelia Earhart)
    1. Correspondence
    2. Notes and Drafts
    3. Published Material by and about Amelia Earhart
    4. Galley Proofs
    5. Photographs
  3. In Search of Paradise (Nordhoff & Hall)
    1. James Norman Hall
    2. Charles Nordhoff
    3. Information on Tahiti and The Bounty
    4. Notes
    5. Early Articles and Typescripts
    6. Galley Proofs
    7. Photographs

I. Personal Papers

BOX 1
f.1 “Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge,” 1957.
f.2 “Fictional Biography and Biographical Fiction.”
f.3 “Hamlet Under the Scalpel of Coleridge,” 1957.
f.4 The Sound of Wings, Paul Briand and Joseph Roberts, 1957.
f.5 “Yeats’ Vision: The Shattered Glass of Reality.”
f.6 “Hardy, Bridges, & Yeats,” Seminar Study, 1958.
f.7 “Notes on the Art of Modern Biography,” 1958.
f.8 “A Fateful Tuesday, 1918: The Last Combat Flight of James Norman Hall.” The Airpower Historian, 1964.
f.9 “The Catholic Mass in James Joyce’s Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly.
f.10 “The Nonsense about Technical Writing,” 1967.
f.11 “Why is Oswego? College & Community, Character & Commitment,” 1970.
f.12 “America the Violent,” 1970.
f.13 “America the Violent.” Vital Speeches of the Day, 1970.
f.14 “Turned On: Multi-Media & Advanced Composition.” The English Record, 1970.
f.15 “Turned On: Multi-Media and Advanced Composition.” College Composition and Communication, 1970.
f.16 “Turned On: Multi-Media & Advanced Composition.”
f.17 “Turned On: Multi-Media & Advanced Composition.”
f.18 “Turned On, English Composition: Instructional Development in Perspective, A Case Study.”
f.19 “Turned On, English Composition: A Case Study.”
f.20 “Evaluation of `Project Turned-on’: Multi-media Based Instruction in English Composition.”
f.21 “Freedom and Responsibility on Campus,” 1971.
f.22 “Eye, Ear, Voice, & Hand: Non-Verbal Literacy & Verbal Communication.” Community College Frontiers, 1972.
f.23 “Eye, Ear, Voice, & Hand: Non-Verbal Literacy & Verbal Communication.”
f.24 “Non-Verbal Literacy & Verbal Communication.”
f.25 “Non-Verbal Literacy & Verbal Communication.”
f.26 Responses to “Media Options for Improving Instruction.” Planning for Higher Education, 1975.
f.27 “Technology in the Teaching of Composition,” 1978.
f.28 “Comp: The Computer-Composition Interface.”
f.29 “Personal Philosophy of Education and College Level Instruction.”
f.30 “A Writing Skills Program.” Proposal.
f.31 Classes, syllabi, exams, and information.
f.32 Experimental College at Oswego, correspondence and information.
f.33 Newspaper clippings about Briand.
f.34 Miscellaneous.


II. Daughter of the Sky

A. Correspondence

BOX 2
f.1 Thomas G. Albright (1); Lois Allen (1), and American Library Service (1).
f.2 Josephine Akiyama (15).
f.3 American Legion Amelia Earhart Post No. 678 (9) (mostly from Lauretta M. Schimmoler).
f.4 Bernt Balchen (2); Ralph Barnaby (1); George C. Baron, Booth & Baron (3); Billie Bohannon (1); Mrs. P. Buehler (1), and George T. Bye (1).
f.5 Sidney Carroll (1); Lucy Challiss (2), and Jacqueline Cochran (1).
f.6 Marjorie Davis, Sept. 20, 1957; Sept. 30, 1958; Dec. 7, 1958; July 3, 1959; Aug. 19, 1959; April 16, 1960 (6).
f.7 Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc., publishers (mostly from Charles Pearce) (19) (1957-1958).
f.8 Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc., publishers (mostly from Charles Pearce) (27) (1959).
f.9 Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc., publishers (mostly from Charles Pearce) (37) (1960-1968).
f.10 Amelia Earhart (to Viola Gentry) (1) (1932).
f.11 Anne M. Earhart (3).
f.12 Franklin Institute (1); Gilbert C. Frye (1); Laurine H. Garner (1); Capt. Joseph A. Gervais (3); Betty Huyler Gillies (2); Louis Gordon (1 to and 1 from), and Barb Gerber (1).
f.13 Viola Gentry (3).
f.14 Harcourt Brace & Co. (1); Dwight Heine (1); Clyde Holley (2); The Honnold Library (1), and Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences (3).
f.15 Japanese Embassy (1); Clarence Johnson, Vice-President of Engineering and Research, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation(4); Victor Johnson (1); Theodore Kenyon (1); Joyce LaRoche (1); Dudley Ledwell (1); Peg Lewis (2); Library of Congress (2), and Life (1).
f.16 William F. Manlove (1); Paul Mantz Air Services (2); James Metcalf (1); Muriel Morrissey (2); National Aeronautic Association (1); The Ninety-Nines, Inc. (1); Ruth Nichols (2), and North American Newspaper Alliance (1).
f.17 Nancy Osborne (1); Parnassus Book Service (2); Purdue University (5); George P. Putnam (1); G.P. Putnam’s Sons, publishers (8), and Margaret Putnam (3).
f.18 Hilton Howell Railey (7) (July 18-August 31, 1957).
f.19 Hilton Howell Railey (7), (September 1-20, 1957).
f.20 Hilton Howell Railey (7), (September 23-30, 1957).
f.21 Hilton Howell Railey (10), (October 1-14, 1957).
f.22 Hilton Howell Railey (7), (October 25-December 15, 1957).
f.23 Hilton Howell Railey, (18) (March 21, 1958-February 24, 1960).
f.24 Research Studies Institute (1); Robert Saudek Associates, Inc. (1); Hashime Saito (1); Casimir Sheft (5); James Smith (1); Smithsonian Institution (4); Society for the Propagation of the Faith (1), and Manila Davis Talley (1).
f.25 United States government departments: Dept. of the Air Force (4); Central Intelligence Agency (1); Department of Commerce, Civil Aeronautics Administration (4), and Dept. of Justice (5).
f.26 United States government departments: Dept. of the Navy (1); Dept. of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration (2); Federal Aviation Agencey (2); Federal Bureau of Investigation (6), and General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service (5).
f.27 University of Wyoming (2); Gore Vidal (1); Bradford Washburn (4); Helen Hutson Weber (4); Women’s International Association of Aeronautics (1), and WomenSports (4).
f.28 Unidentified correspondents (4).

B. Notes and Drafts

BOX 3
f.1 Government Documents Relating to Amelia Earhart (for oversized documents see Oversize Box 1 folder 1).
f.2 West Coast Trip Research.
f.3 West Coast Trip Research.
f.4 Notes.
f.5 Miscellaneous Notes and Addresses.
f.6 “Amelia Earhart: A Women Who Dared.”
f.7 “Amelia Earhart: Feminist and Pilot, 1974.”
f.8 “The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart.”
f.9 Daughter of the Sky, Index and Acknowledgements.
f.10 Critical Preface.
f.11 Section I, Chapter 1, “The Girl from Kansas.”
f.12 Section I, Chapter 2, “The Restless Soul.”
f.13 Section I, Chapter 4, “The Friendship Flight.”
f.14 Section II, Chapter 1, “In the Public Eye.”
f.15 Section II, Chapter 2, “Vagabond of the Air.”
f.16 Section II, Chapter 3, “George Palmer Putnam.”
f.17 Section II, Chapter 4, “Solo Across Atlantic.”
f.18 Section II, Chapter 5, “First Lady of Flight.”
f.19 Section III, Chapter 1, “The Fever of Preparation.”
f.20 Section III, Chapter 2, “Around the Equator.”
f.21 Section III, Chapter 3, “New Guinea to Howland.”
f.22 Section III, Chapter 4, “The Disappearance.”
f.23 Appendices.
f.24 Typescript, Daughter of the Sky, Part I.
f.25 Typescript, Daughter of the Sky, Part II.
f.26 Typescript, Daughter of the Sky, Part III.
f.27 Illustrations of Amelia Earhart from published works.

C. Published Material By and About Amelia Earhart

BOX 4
f.1 Cobham, Sir Alan, “Seeing the World from the Air.” National Geographic, 1928.
f.2 Curley, Walter, “Amelia Earhart: The Aviation Record of America’s Most Famous Woman Pilot,” 1966.
f.3 Earhart, Amelia, “Flying the Atlantic.” The American Magazine [August] 1932.
f.4 Earhart, Amelia, “My Flight from Hawaii.” National Geographic [May] 1935.
f.5 Earhart, Amelia, “Courage,” (musical score), 1937.
f.6 Elliot, Lawrence, “The Mystery of Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight.” Reader’s Digest, 1957.
f.7 The National Aeronautic Magazine, [January] 1935.
f.8 Okumiya, Masatake, “For Sugar Boats or Submarines?” United States Naval Proceedings, [August] 1968.
f.9 Omnibus V Volume 24, “Amelia Earhart.” The Television-Radio Workshop of the Ford Foundation, 1957.
f.10 Newspaper Clippings about Amelia Earhart, 1932-1987.
f.11 Programs.
f.12 The Ninety-Nine Club.

D. Galley Proofs

OVERSIZE BOX 1
f.1 Oversize government documents pertaining to Amelia Earhart.
f.2 Galley Proof for Daughter of the Sky.
f.3 Galley Proof for Daughter of the Sky.

E. Photographs

BOX 5
f.1 Photographs of Amelia Earhart.

III. In Search of Paradise

A. James Norman Hall

BOX 6
f.1 Correspondence (unless otherwise noted, these are letters to Paul Briand about James Norman Hall), A-G: Ida Ainsworth, Jan 24, 1962; Paul Appleby, Aug 9, 1962; Carolyn C. Atkin, Jan. 3, 1962; The Atlantic Monthly (5), Dec 11, 1961; April 16, 1962; June 14, 1963; Aug 18, Oct 11, 1965; G. Clifford Blake, Feb 3, 1963; Paul Briand to Book of the Month Club, March 28, 1963; Carl D. Brandt, Feb 15, 1962; Brandt & Brandt, Jan 29, 1963; Carl M. Beecher (5), Feb 1, 1962; April 27, May 13, Aug 2, Aug 17, 1963; George Biddle, July 25, 1963; Miriam M. Balsley, Feb 11, 1963; Tom Buffum, April 21, 1963; Anne Benedicta Carolan, Feb 8, 1962; Barnaby Conrad, March 8, 1963; Helen Gillingham (Mrs. Roy Cushman) (2), Jan 22 and April 1, 1963; Chester C. Davis (5), Jan 13, Feb 6, Feb 13, March 16, and July 6, 1963; — Dube to William A. Ziegler, April 20, 1917; Arthur B. Epperson, Feb 24, 1963; J. Bruce Eyestone to George Pierce, Dec. 3, 1952; Marjorie Hall Forsyth (sister), March 2, 1965; Mrs. Harold B. Gardner, Jan 19, 1963; Martin Gilder, Jan 1, 1962; Dorothy Hall Graham, sister (2), Jan 10, March 28, 1965; Graphic Microfilm of New England (2), April 8 and June 11, 1963; Grinnell College (12), Dec 21, 1961; Feb 9, March 23, July 10, July 21, 1962; Feb 8, March 5, May 1, May 25, July 11, July 26, 1963 and one undated; Caroline Guild, April 22, 1963 and undated
f.2 Correspondence (unless otherwise noted, these are letters to Paul Briand about James Norman Hall), H-M: Clare D. Horner, Aug 11, 1962; Houghton Mifflin, March 11, 1963; Ernest Jacoby for the Greener family, April 30, 1963; Ernest Jacoby to Henry Alden, Grinnell College Librarian, July 31, 1963; C.A. Klein, Feb 25, 1963; Kenneth Littauer, June 24, 1963; Donald S. Marshall (4), Jan 16, 1962; April 16, April 25, May 13, 1963; James McConnaughy, March 22, 1962; Mrs. Hugh McKean, Feb 25, 1963; Richard Miller, April 21, 1963; New England Merchants National Bank (3), April 22, May 13, May 20, 1963
f.3 Correspondence (unless otherwise noted, these are letters to Paul Briand about James Norman Hall), P-Z: Ina C. Payne, May 1, 1963; George L. Pierce (4), Feb 15, 1963, April 25, May 13 and one undated; The Prairie PressFeb 25, 1963; Willard Price, Feb 18, 1963; Leland L. Rounds (2), May 22, Sept. 13, 1963; Ellery Sedgwick (2), Aug 29, 1962; Jan 16, 1963; Odell Shepard, Dec 10, 1961; Rose E. Stoops (2), Jan 15, Feb 2, 1963; W. S. Stone, Feb 15, 1962; James E. Stronks (6), Jan 17, Feb 6, Feb 18, April 1, Sept 12, 1963; Marjorie Sutherland Wheeler, Aug 18, 1962; Capt. I.F. Wood, Dec 10, 1961; Edna E. Winship, May 14, 1963; one identified only as “Larry,” July 1, 1963
f.4 Correspondence: Hall’s letters to his sisters, Dorothy [Hall Graham] and Marjorie [Hall Forsyth] (“Soapsuds”), and mother (35), 1934-1950.
f.5 Hall addresses.
f.6 Hall, James Norman, “The Feet that Wouldn’t Go East,” 1936.
f.7 Hall, James Norman, “Good Night…and Good Morning!,” A Musical Play.
f.8 Hall, James Norman, “My Iowa Boyhood.” Des Moines Sunday Register [Nov 30, 1952-Jan 4, 1953).
f.9 Hall, James Norman, "Stories for Children."
f.10 Information on the Lafayette Escadrille (James Norman Hall).
f.11 Newspaper clippings

B. Charles Nordhoff

f.12 Correspondence (unless otherwise noted, these are letters to Paul Briand about Charles Nordhoff), A-G: M. Thomas Ackerland (2), Dec 10, 1961; Feb 9, 1962; Bank of America (on behalf of Brain Curtis), Feb 27, 1963; Sarah Nordhoff Clark, May 8, 1962; Thomas E. Cornwall, April 25, 1962; Rita Nordhoff Chadwick (2), May 16, 1962; Feb 11, 1963; Charis Crockett, May 16, 1963 [?]; Donald Barr Chidsey (3), Oct 21, Nov 14, 1964; Nov 5, 1965; Christian de Guigne, March 4, 1963; Walter G. de Steiguer (4), May 5, 1962; Jan 31, Feb 15, Feb 16, 1963; Henry Forster (2), April 8, April 30, 1963; Mrs. Charles Glaser, Jan 11, 1962
f.13 Correspondence (unless otherwise noted, these are letters to Paul Briand about Charles Nordhoff), H-M: Harvard University, Feb 19, 1963; Jeanne G. Hill, Aug 20, Sept 10, 1962; Charles M. Kinsolving (2), Feb 13, April 12, 1963; Col. Charles W. Kerwood, April 30, 1963; Joseph D. Leland, April 19, 1962; Library of Congress (4), April 9, May 10, Aug 29, Sept 6, 1963; Lawrence K. Lunt, March 28, 1962; Laura Nordhoff (4), Sept 17, Nov 23, 1961; June 10, July 26, 1962; Mary Nordhoff (2), June 14, 1962; Feb 19, 1963; John McFarland, May 31, 1963; Fred McNear, March 10, 1963; Richard Miller, Feb 10, 1963; Cdr. F. P. Morrison, May 16, 1962; Sally Whitall Morrison, undated; Don Moss, Feb 21, 1963
f.14 Correspondence (unless otherwise noted, these are letters to Paul Briand about Charles Nordhoff), P-Z: Gifford B. Pinchot (2), Feb 27, April 4, 1963; Walter B. Power (3), March 16, April 4, April 30, 1962; William M. Rand (2), April 10, April 30, 1962; E.T. Springer (3), April 28, May 14, Aug 30, 1962; James E. Stronks, undated; Andy Thomson, May 12, 1963; Charles A. Whipple, April 2, 1962; D. Wright Wilson, April 30, 1963
f.15 Nordhoff Addresses.
f.16 Nordhoff, Charles B., “Saved by the Durian!”

C. Information on Tahiti and “The Bounty”

f.17 Information on Tahiti.
f.18 Map of Tahiti.
f.19 “The Old Orsmond Manuscript.”
f.20 Information on “The Bounty.”
f.21 Maude, H.E., “In Search of a Home: From the Mutiny to Pitcairn Island, 1789-1790.”
f.22 Smith, D. Bonner, “More Light on Bligh and The Bounty.”
f.23 Smith, D. Bonner, “Some Remarks about the Mutiny of The Bounty.”

D. Notes for In Search of Paradise

BOX 7
f.1 Hall: Colfax, Iowa, 1887-1906 (1).
f.2 Hall: Grinnell College, 1906-1910 (2); promotional card for Blachly & Hall at the Student Pantorium – clothes cleaned and pressed – on the back of which is written “Thoughts Are Deeds And May Become Crimes: James Norman Hall put himself through Grinnell”
f.3 Hall: Grinnell College, Cyclone, 1910.
f.4 Hall: Boston, 1910-1914 (3).
f.5 Hall: British Army, 1914-1916 (4).
f.6 Hall: Lafayatte Escadrille, 1916-1919 (5).
f.7 Hall: South Seas, 1920-1922 (6).
f.8 Hall: Iceland, 1922-1923 (7).
f.9 Hall: Tahiti, 1924-1929 (8).

BOX 8
f.1 Nordhoff: Tahiti, 1920-1929.
f.2 Nordhoff: Tahiti, 1920-1929.
f.3 Nordhoff: Tahiti, 1930-1939.
f.4 Hall: Tahiti, 1930-1939.
f.5 Nordhoff: California, 1940-1947.
f.6 Nordhoff: California, 1940-1947.
f.7 Hall: Tahiti, 1940-1949 (10).
f.8 Hall: Tahiti, 1940-1949 (10).

BOX 9
f.1 Hall: Tahiti–Post Mortem, 1950-1957 (11).
f.2 Nordhoff: California, 1887-1906.
f.3 Nordhoff: Harvard (and letters from Mary Nordhoff Williams), 1906-1909.
f.4 Nordhoff: California, 1909-1916.
f.5 Nordhoff: Lafayette Escadrille, 1916-1920.
f.6 Nordhoff: Post Mortem, 1948-1953.

E. Early Articles and Typescripts of In Search of Paradise

BOX 10
f.1 Briand, Paul L., “Solace and Sustenance for a P.O.W.: Geoffrey Chaucer and James Norman Hall.”
f.2 Briand, Paul L., “A Fateful Tuesday, 1918: The Last Combat Flight of James Norman Hall.”
f.3 Briand, Paul L., “The Flight Training of Nordhoff and Hall.”
f.4 Briand, Paul L., “The Tahiti of Nordhoff and Hall.”
f.5 Briand, Paul L., “The Tahiti of Nordhoff and Hall.”
f.6 Typescript, In Search of Paradise; Author’s Note, Acknowledgements, and Index.
f.7 In Search of Paradise, Part I “James Norman Hall.”
f.8 In Search of Paradise, Part II “Charles Bernard Nordhoff.”
f.9 In Search of Paradise, Part III “Nordhoff and Hall.”
f.10 Bibliography.
f.11 In Search of Paradise, Reviews.

F. Galley Proofs

OVERSIZE BOX 2
f.1 Galley Proofs for In Search of Paradise.
f.2 Galley Proofs for In Search of Paradise.

G. Photographs

BOX 11
f.1 Photographs of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.

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