Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hale, Philip Leslie, 1865-1931
setName: label: See more items in
content: Philip Leslie Hale papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1818-1944
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.halephil, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The series is organized into 2 subseries:

2.1: Family Correspondence, 1818-1944

2.2: General Correspondence, 1885-1935
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Family correspondence includes letters written to Philip Leslie Hale, as well as letters between other members of the Hale family. General correspondence includes Hale's personal and professional correspondence. A number of illustrated letters by Philip L. Hale and other artists are included. In addition, many letters were used as sketch paper and contain drawings by Philip Leslie Hale.

Additional correspondence is scattered throughout the collection. Series 5: Memorial Book includes the research correspondence of Albert J. Kennedy, who contacted many of Hale's friends, relatives, former students, models, and colleagues for the purpose of collecting their reminiscences. Series 6: Printed Material includes a small number of letters concerning Arcadia: A Journal Devoted to Music, Art and Literature, which were filed with the "Art in Paris" columns that appeared in that journal. A few letters mentioning photographs given to Hale remain filed with Series 7: Photographic Material.