Helen Wright Collection on George Ellery Hale 10175-MS

Kevin C. Knox, Peter Sachs Collopy

California Institute of Technology Archives and Special Collections

2018

1200 East California Blvd.

MC B215-74

Pasadena, California 91125

archives@caltech.edu

URL: http://archives.caltech.edu/

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: California Institute of Technology Archives and Special Collections

Title: Helen Wright Collection on George Ellery Hale

creator: Wright, Helen, 1914-1997

creator: Hale, George Ellery, 1868–1938

Identifier/Call Number: 10175-MS

Physical Description: 6 linear feet

Date (inclusive): 1887–1972

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to researchers by appointment at the Caltech Archives.

Biographical / Historical

Helen Wright, the daughter of George Ellery Hale's colleague Frederick Wright, was born in 1914. The National Academy of Sciences commissioned Wright to pen the work a biography of Hale 1951, and she published the book, entitled Explorer of the Universe, in 1966. Six years later, Wright co-authored The Legacy of George Ellery Hale.

Related Materials

The major collection of related material is the George Ellery Hale Papers, located at Caltech and the Huntington Library and available on the web at hale.archives.caltech.edu.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of material collected by Helen Wright in the course of writing her 1966 biography of George Ellery Hale, Explorer of the Universe. It includes copies of documents which can also be found in the George Ellery Hale Papers, but also documents from other sources and Wright's transcripts of some handwritten letters, particularly those from Hale to his wife and daughter.

Conditions Governing Use

Unpublished works created by George Ellery Hale are in the public domain and may be reproduced freely. Copyright to works by others, and to Hale's publications, may be held by their respective creators, those creators' heirs, or their publishers. If you wish to quote or reproduce such works beyond the extent of fair use, please contact the copyright holder to request permission.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Astronomical observatories

Spectrohelioscope

Astrophysics

Astrophysicists

Original Correspondence and Documents 1 1917–1972

box 1, folder 1

Book reviews of Explorer of the Universe and The Legacy of George Ellery Hale 1966 1972

box 1, folder 2

Correspondence regarding The Legacy of George Ellery Hale 1972

box 1, folder 3

Helen Wright correspondence 1950–1968

box 1, folder 4

George Ellery Hale correspondence 1917–1947

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include James Breasted, W. W. Campbell, E. Connor, Gano Dunn, J. J., Arthur Fleming, Vernon Kellogg, Thomas Hunt Morgan, the National Research Council, H. G. Pearson, James A. B. Scherer, O. Struve, and Frederick Wright.

Correspondence and Documents Assembled by Helen Wright 2 1859–1952

Physical Description: 4 linear feet

box 1, folder 5–9

Chronological 1 1887–1903

By Individual 2 1859–1952

Physical Description: 1 linear feet

box 1, folder 10–11

James Breasted 1913–1933

box 1, folder 12

Norman Bridge – Howard Russell Butler

box 1, folder 13

W. W. Campbell 1900–1917

box 1, folder 14

Andrew Carnegie 1904–1935

box 1, folder 15

John J. Carty 1918–1933

box 2, folder 1

M. Caulfield – Charles R. Cross

box 2, folder 2

M. Gaston Darboux – Theodore Dunham, Jr.

box 2, folder 3

Gano Dunn 1917–1934

box 2, folder 4

W. F. Durand – Sir F. W. Dyson

box 2, folder 5

Albert Einstein 1913–1933

box 2, folder 6

Ferdinand Ellerman – E. Evershed

box 2, folder 7

Max Farrand 1927–1935

box 2, folder 8

Arthur Fleming 1915–1935

box 2, folder 9

Simon Flexner 1917–1926

box 2, folder 10

Philip Fox 1916–1934

box 2, folder 11

Edwin Frost 1898–1924

box 2, folder 12

L. Gianetti – Bertram Goodhue

box 2, folder 13–16

Harry Manley Goodwin 1887–1936 1952

box 2, folder 17

Fritz Haber – Arnold Hague 1902–1930

box 2, folder 18–20

Hale family 1859–1898 1911–1939

box 3, folder 1–2

William B. Hale 1896–1936

box 3, folder 3

S. Halsted – William R. Harper

box 3, folder 4

J. Hartman – Edward M. House

box 3, folder 5–6

William Huggins 1892–1931

box 3, folder 7

Myron Hunt 1918

box 3, folder 8

Henry Huntington 1914–1934

box 3, folder 9

W. Hussey – Janssen

box 3, folder 10

J. H. Jeans 1918–1934

box 3, folder 11

L. Jewell – H. Juson

box 3, folder 12

H. Macpherson – Max Mason

box 3, folder 13

Shailer Mathews – John C. Merriam

box 3, folder 14

S. Merrill – E. Moore

Scope and Contents

Includes Robert A. Millikan

box 3, folder 15

Thomas Hunt Morgan 1927–1932

box 3, folder 16

Woodrow Wilson 1916–1919

By Topic 3 1880–1951

Physical Description: 3 linear feet

box 4, folder 1

American Astronomical Society 1897–1899

box 4, folder 2

Astrophysical Journal 1891–1898

box 4, folder 3

Awards and honors 1907–1933

box 4, folder 4

Beloit College 1891–1895 1951

box 4, folder 5

Book collecting 1925–1934

box 4, folder 6–10

California Institute of Technology 1920–1949

box 4, folder 11

Carnegie Institution 1901–1936

box 4, folder 12

Children's stories and poetry c. 1926–1933

box 4, folder 13–15

Egyptology 1913–1935

box 4, folder 16

History and philosophy of science 1925–1933

box 4, folder 17

Illnesses 1910–1937

box 4, folder 18

International Astronomical Union 1907–1919

box 4, folder 19–21

International cooperation 1904–1918

box 4, folder 22–24

International science 1918–1935

box 4, folder 25

Massachusetts Institute of Technology c. 1880s

box 5, box 6

Mount Wilson Observatory 1902–1949

Palomar Observatory 1905–1948

box 7, folder 1–7

Design and finance 1921–1936 1946–1948

box 7, folder 8–12, box 8, folder 1–3

Mirror 1905 1923–1936

box 8, folder 4

Site 1928–1935

box 8, folder 5

Mounting 1928–1936

box 8, folder 6

Auxiliary instruments 1929–1942

box 8, folder 7

Shopwork 1929–1932

box 8, folder 8

Dedication 1948

box 8, folder 9

Poetry c. 1911–1922

box 8, folder 10

Rockefeller Foundation 1919

box 8, folder 11-16

Solar work 1889–1934

box 9, folder 1

Smithsonian Institution 1906–1914

box 9, folder 2–3

Throop Polytechnic 1907–1919

box 9, folder 4–6

Travels 1909–1915 1922–1929

box 9, folder 7–9

Yerkes Observatory 1892–1896 1899–1903

Organizations 3 1903–1951

Physical Description: 1 linear feet

box 10, folder 1–5

National Academy of Sciences 1903–1951

box 10, folder 6–12, box 11, folder 1–5

National Research Council 1915–1938

box 11, folder 6–9

National Research Fund/Fellowships 1917–1932

Publications 4 1890–1936

box 12

Hale reprints 1890–1897 1904–1907 1919–1936

box 13, folder 1–3

Others' reprints not dated

Biographical 5 1900–1962

box 13, folder 4

Autobiographical notes 1933

Works about Hale 1904–1962

box 13, folder 5

Abetti, Giorgio 1910 1938

box 13, folder 6

Adams, Walter 1938 1947

box 13, folder 7

Aitken, Robert 1916

box 13, folder 8

Babcock, Harold 1938 1939

box 13, folder 9

Carew, H. D. 1928

box 13, folder 10

Connor, Elizabeth 1962

box 13, folder 11

Dunham, Theodore 1938

box 13, folder 12

Fox, Philip 1938

box 13, folder 13

Goodwin, H. M. 1920

box 13, folder 14

Hale, William 1939

box 13, folder 15

Mosgroveer, Ellie 1950

box 13, folder 16

Newell, H. F. 1933

box 13, folder 17

Seares, F. H. 1938

box 13, folder 18

Stratton, F. J. M. 1938

box 13, folder 19

The Telescope 1936

box 13, folder 20

Turner, H. H. 1904

box 13, folder 21

Bibliography 1935

box 13, folder 22

Miscellaneous c. 1900–1940