Call Number:

C0591

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 1.25 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Selected Papers of Sparse Grey Hackle, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1765-1954 (inclusive)

Creator:

Hackle, Sparse Grey, 1892-

Form:

Fishing stories, American., Legal documents -- 18th century., and Short stories, American.

Abstract:

Consists of selected manuscripts and documents of Sparse Grey Hackle, an American author of books about angling.

"Sparse Grey Hackle" was the pen name of Alfred W. Miller, an American author of books and articles about angling.

The collection consists of the typescript and proofs of Hackle's collection of short stories Fishless Days (1954), the typed manuscript of his story "Vocabulary" (1954), two letters, and his collection of 18th- and 19th-century regulatory documents relating to fishing in the Delaware, Hudson, South, Raritan, and Hackensack rivers of New Jersey.