This series contains correspondence and other papers of the extended Hale family, mainly Salma Hale, George Silsbee Hale, and Richard Walden Hale, along with papers of the connected families of King, Sever, Dana, Tebbets, Patterson, and miscellaneous others. Early papers include items for Joseph Hale, David Hale, and some Emerson family material.

Salma Hale's correspondence pertains to his editorship of the Walpole, N.H. Political Observatory and his work as clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Cheshire County. Other letters illuminate his activities as a U.S. Congressman and member of the commission to settle boundaries under the Treaty of Ghent (1815), including correspondence with William C. Bradley, representative from Vermont, and Cornelius Peter Van Ness, governor and representative from Vermont, both of whom served with Hale on the commission, as well as Ward Chipman, British agent to the commission. Other correspondents include New Hampshire political figures with whom Hale served during his two years in Congress (1817-1819): Samuel Bell, Josiah Butler, Arthur Livermore, William Plummer, and Nathaniel Upham. Also included is correspondence with Nathaniel Silsbee, John Bailey, and John W. Taylor. These letters treat both state and national politics, touching upon such issues as the Missouri Compromise of 1820, foreign affairs, and current debates and legislation, as well as politicians such as James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Lewis Cass, Martin Van Buren, and Zachary Taylor.

Salma's correspondence concerns, secondly, his association with various publishing houses regarding his History of the United States, which was first published at Keene, N.H. in 1823 and passed through many subsequent editions.

This series also contains materials concerning Sarah King (Salma's future wife), 1816-1821, including letters with Catherine Fiske, who raised and educated her, and William Gay, her guardian.

George Silsbee Hale papers include letters with friends from Keene, the Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University, among them William Barstow, Francis Parkman, Edwin A. Wild, and George S. Emerson. His school papers for the years 1839-1844 include notes, essays, compositions, and college themes. There is correspondence with numerous family members and a large series of letters between Hale and Ellen (Sever) Tebbets, whom he married in 1868, among them letters written home during his many European travels. Other correspondents include A. M. Chalmers, in whose Virginia school he taught for a year; Harry Hibbard, U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire (who married George's sister Sarah King Hale Bellows); and various public figures such as Josiah Quincy, Jared Sparks, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, Carl Schurz, and Theodore Roosevelt. Hale's philanthropic activities are documented in his correspondence with many of Boston's institutions and organizations in which he was active or an officer.

The series also contains papers of George's wife Ellen (Sever) Tebbets, including a large amount of Sever family correspondence, early Sever papers, and some items related to Ellen's first husband John Tebbets and her son John Sever Tebbets. Earlier Sever family members represented here include William Sever (1729-1809); John Sever (1766-1803), merchant and shipbuilder; and John Sever (1792-1855), first president of the Old Colony Railroad. Sever family materials include some items pertaining to the Dana family (who were related to the Severs) and correspondence among the Sever sisters, two of whom served as nurses in the Civil War.

Richard Walden Hale's correspondence and papers mainly concern his personal research and writing about the law, historical topics, and current affairs, but include family correspondence. There is a box of materials relating to his engagement and marriage (1903) to Mary Newbold Patterson. Among his correspondents are Charles Evan Hughes, Learned Hand, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Harold Laski, Roscoe Pound, and William Dean Howells.

This series contains genealogical materials apparently collected by several family members, including small volumes of genealogies for the Hale family and memoirs for various family members. There is also a box of genealogies and notes on the related Cox, Gilbert, Hansen, Liddon, Newbold-Smith, Patterson, Sever, Singer, and Tebbets families.

This series consists of personal papers of Warwick Greene, a public official who served in the Philippines (1910-1915), as director of the War Relief Commission of the Rockefeller Foundation (1916), on the Red Cross Commission in France and Belgium (1917), as major of the Aviation Section (1917), as major of the Signal Corps (1917), and later as lieutenant colonel (1918-1919). After the war, he became president of the New England Oil Refining Company and later vice-president of the Petroleum Heat and Power Company of Boston. He died in Boston in 1929. Richard W. Hale edited a volume of the Letters of Warwick Greene, 1915-1918 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931), which is probably the reason this material appears among Hale's papers.

Included are papers and correspondence with various financial investment companies: W. H. McKenna and Company (1921-1922), North American Company (1921-1927), and the Old Colony Trust Company (1924-1926); correspondence relating to the New England Oil Refining Company and its work in Venezuela (1925-1927); passports and travel documents (1915-1926); general papers and correspondence about banking and household matters (1920-1929); and papers concerning the finances and personal legal matters (1921-1924) of Eugene de Mitkiewicz, a colleague in the Philippines.

This box contains oversize materials from other parts of the collection. All items were dummied out from their original positions.