Alfred Vance Churchill letters to Carl F. Schreiber, 1929-1949.

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Alfred Vance Churchill letters to Carl F. Schreiber, 1929-1949.

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Collection of approximately sixty-six pieces of correspondence, dating from 1947 to 1949, between Alfred Vance Churchill and Carl F. Scheiber relating chiefly to a volume of translations from the German. The volume, published privately by Churchill and entitled Golden Song, contains translations of "lyrics selected from those which have been set to music by great composers." Accompanied by a letter to Churchill from Arnold Bergsträsser, a carbon of a letter from Schreiber to Lawrence Musson, corrected drafts of poems and printed versions of Golden Song, and printed materials, dating from 1929 to 1946, including exhibition catalogs documenting paintings by Churchill and promotional material from the Smith College Musem of Art, where Churchill served as director from 1920 to 1932.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Churchill, Alfred Vance, 1864-1949

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Alfred Vance Churchill was born on August 14, 1864 in Oberlin, Ohio. He was the son of Charles Henry Churchill, a professor at Oberlin College and his second wife, Henrietta Vance Churchill. Alfred was the second child of Henrietta Vance Churchill, and was the sixth of Charles Henry Churchill's nine children. After studies at Oberlin, Alfred studied art in Berlin, Leipzig, and Paris from 1887-1890. He married Marie Marschall in 1890. Their son Louis Nelson Churchill was born in 1897. In 1892 Chu...

Bergsträsser, Arnold, 1896-1964.

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Musson, Lawrence.

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Smith College Museum of Art

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Schreiber, Carl F. (Carl Frederick), 1886-

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Carl F. Schreiber (1886-1960) was a professor in the German Department at Yale University from 1909 to 1954 and curator of the William A. Speck Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library from 1928 to 1960. From the description of Carl F. Schreiber papers, circa 1910-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702186811 Carl F. Schreiber was born in Saginaw, Michigan. His father, Hugo Friedrich, was a merchant; his mother was Adelaide Rueter. Schreiber received his ...