Amán Amán!, a philosophical memoir of over 2,100 pages, 1959-1991, is intended to be a fusion of literature, philosophy, autobiography, and memoir, written over a period of thirty years. It includes an introduction (Opening Remarks, Opening Quotations, and Dedication), a set of Prefaces ("for Logan Pearsall Smith"), and thirty-three sections. If divided into volumes, volume 1 would end at section VI and volume 2 at section XXII.

Letters from Professor and Mrs. Hall concerning their trip to Australia; housing, transportation, and universities in Australia; businessmen and officials in New Guinea; and the uses and significance of Pidgin English. Draft letter from Florence, Italy, describing the 1966 flood. Also two autobiographies, STORMY PETREL IN LINGUISTICS, 1975, and STORMY PETREL FLIES AGAIN, 1980.