Churchill, William, 1859-1920
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1859 - 1920
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0005
Overview
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (October 23, 1831 – January 9, 1924), was an American classical scholar. This collection spans the years 1847 to 1925 and consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, biographic data, diaries, notes, notebooks, drafts, published and unpublished writings, books and offprints, addresses, translations, students seminary papers, and index cards with citations for the Syntax of Classical Greek.
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Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers
William Churchill papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0225
Overview
William Churchill, philologist, ethnologist, and writer, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1859. He was appointed United States consul-general to Samoa (1896-1899) where he pursued his interest in philology and ethnology. Churchill also studied African languages and culture but less seriously than those of Polynesia. This collection contains two scrapbooks which Churchill compiled on Africa and the South Pacific, respectively, as well as a written draft of his 1892 book, A...
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Special Collections
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William Churchill papers