Hamill, Alfred E. (Alfred Ernest), 1884-1953
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1884 - 1953
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Alfred E. Hamill letters to Kenneth Meyer Setton
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-162
Abstract
Five letters to Kenneth Setton concerning his studies of Athens in the 12th century, and other matters of mutual interest.
Dates:
1944-1946
Alfred E. Hamill papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hamill
Abstract
Chicago investment banker, Centaur Press founder, Newberry Library trustee, and calligraphy and gypsy lore collector. Personal letters of Alfred E. Hamill to a Russian émigré, Alexandra Fredericks, and of Dora E. Yates, a librarian and the secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society, to Hamill. Also typescript copy of a diary kept 1918-1919 while in France with the American Red Cross, a letter to Andrei Gromyko in 1945 regarding U.S.-Soviet relations, bookplates, photographs, poems, and other...
Dates:
1856-1967; Majority of material found within 1937-1953
T.M. Cleland letters and sketches
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Cl
Abstract
Letters exchanged between Cleland and Alfred Hamill, a few sketches (including one for the Newberry Library), and a small group of related letters. With the exception of 1 item, the Cleland letters are reproductions.
Dates:
1924-1952
Warren Chappell book layouts for a proposed Christmas book on commission for Alfred E. Hamill
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Wing-MS-37
Abstract
Four layouts accompanied by a 4 p. ALS from Hamill to Chappell dated 10 April 1949 concerning these layouts and the book of fables for which they were intended, and by a set of notes on the letter and layouts written out by Chappell in April of 1967, signed and dated.
Dates:
1949-1967; Majority of material found in 1949 - 1949
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
- Adultery -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Athens (Greece) -- History 1
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
- Correspondence -- England -- 1901-1950 1
- Correspondence -- England -- 1951-2000 1
- Fables -- Illustrations 1
- Gift books -- Illustrations 1
- Illustration of books -- 20th century 1
- Illustrators 1
- Librarians -- England -- Correspondence 1
- Love-letters 1
- Man-woman relationships -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Manuscripts, English 1
- Photographs -- England -- 1901-1950 1
- Romanies -- Europe 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Personal narratives 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Red Cross 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Yorkshire -- Personal narratives 1
- Yorkshire (England) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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