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Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1860-07-24 - 1928-07-25

Biography

Chambers Haldane Cooke Macfall was a British military officer who authored works on art history and criticism, several novels, and numerous essays. He designed and illustrated many of his own works as well as bookplates and cover art, and exhibited works at the Royal Academy. He was married to Mabel Plumridge Macfall. He died in 1928.

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Edward Gordon Craig collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 433
Scope and Contents: This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to Edward Gordon Craig, acquired by the library from a variety of sources. Series I, Hamill and Barker Purchase (1912-1958), contains letters from a variety of correspondents to Craig's friend Ewald Junge, who also collected Craig...
Dates: 1905-1963
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Edward Gordon Craig collection

Earl E. Fisk papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 342
Abstract: Collection includes correspondence, writings, and other materials by and relating to book collector, anthologist, writer, and insurance agent Earl E. Fisk. Correspondence contains letters to and from writers, publishers and others, including Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Warren Beck, John Chipman Farrar, Farrar, Straus and Company, Harry Hansen, Robert Cortes Holliday, H. L. Mencken, A. Edward Newton, Carl Van Vechten, and Eudora Welty. Many of the letters concern Haldane Macfall. Writings include...
Dates: 1911-1953
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Earl E. Fisk papers

Haldane Macfall collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1079
Abstract: The collection includes manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of books, essays, and plays including a biography of Aubrey Beardsley, and the novels The Splendid Wayfaring and The Three Students; originals and proofs of illustrations, bookplates, and cover art; correspondence; and contracts with publishers. The majority of the correspondence consists of Macfall's outgoing letters to Earl E. Fisk, a British-born book collector, anthologist and insurance agent who lived in Green Bay, Wisconsin,...
Dates: 1894-1944
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Haldane Macfall collection