Scope and Contents
The collection includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of books, essays, and plays including Aubrey Beardsley, The Splendid Wayfaring, and The Three Students; original 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, and assisted Macfall in placing his books with American publishers.
Dates
- 1894-1944
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Haldane Macfall Collection is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The majority of the collection was purchased on the Francis O. Matthiessen Fund, 1956. Other items were the gifts of Mrs. Leon Godchaux, 1948, and E. L. Sampter, 1956.
Arrangement
Arranged by type of material.
Extent
5.26 Linear Feet (14 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
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, and assisted Macfall in placing his books with American publishers.
Haldane Macfall (1860-1928)
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.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing, in 2014.
The collection is comprised of material formerly classed as MS Vault Macfall.
The finding aid for this collection is largely compiled from individual catalog cards that were created at or around the time of receipt by the library. Information from the catalog cards was repurposed in the finding aid in accordance with current archival descriptive standards. Some catalog cards, copies of which are filed with the collection, include more detailed descriptions of individual items and/or provenance notes. Descriptions for items not represented by catalog cards were derived from accession records, folder labels, or other available descriptive material.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
The collection is comprised of material formerly classed as MS Vault Macfall.
The finding aid for this collection is largely compiled from individual catalog cards that were created at or around the time of receipt by the library. Information from the catalog cards was repurposed in the finding aid in accordance with current archival descriptive standards. Some catalog cards, copies of which are filed with the collection, include more detailed descriptions of individual items and/or provenance notes. Descriptions for items not represented by catalog cards were derived from accession records, folder labels, or other available descriptive material.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Authors -- England -- 20th Century
- Authors, English -- 20th century
- Bookplates -- 20th Century
- Drawings (visual works) -- 20th Century
- Fisk, Earl E. (Earl Ellsworth), 1892-1954
- Illustration of books -- 20th Century
- Illustrators -- England
- Illustrators -- England -- 20th Century
- Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
- Macfall, Mabel Plumridge
- Title
- Guide to the Haldane Macfall Collection
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Beinecke Staff
- Date
- January 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
The Beinecke Library is open to all Yale University students and faculty, and visiting researchers whose work requires use of its special collections. You will need to bring appropriate photo ID the first time you register. Beinecke is a non-circulating, closed stack library. Paging is done by library staff during business hours. You can request collection material online at least two business days in advance of your visit, using the request links in Archives at Yale. For more information, please see Planning Your Research Visit and consult the Reading Room Policies prior to visiting the library.