RARE "Historian" Wallace Notestein Signed TLS Dated 1946 For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "Historian" Wallace Notestein Hand Signed TLS Dated 1946. 

1878 – February 3, 1969) was an American historian and Sterling Professor of

English History at Yale University from

1928 to 1947. He was married to women's educational pioneer Ada Comstock. He was a member of the American

Commission to Negotiate Peace in Europe after World War I. Notestein

was born on December 16, 1878, in Wooster, Ohio, to parents Jonas O. and

Margaret (Wallace) Notestein. He was born into an academic family; his father

and uncles were professors and his younger sister Lucy Lilian Notestein became

a historian. Notestein attended the College of Wooster for

his Bachelor of Arts degree

in 1900 and received his Master's degree and PhD from Yale University. Notestein joined the faculty of history at

the University of Kansas from

1905 until 1907 when he left to teach at the University of Minnesota. During

his lengthy tenure in Minnesota, he published his first book titled A

History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 through the American Historical

Association. It was a chronological survey of Witchcraft in early modern

Britain. In 1919, Notestein was a member of the American

Commission to Negotiate Peace in Europe after World War I. Upon his return, he accepted the role of

Professor of English History at Cornell University. Notestein

stayed at Cornell for eight years, during which he was appointed the Goldwin

Smith Chair of English History, before leaving to become a Sterling Professor at

his alma mater, Yale. During his first year at Yale, he was appointed by

British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to serve on a British commission

investigating materials for a history of the personnel of the House of

Commons of the United Kingdom. He was later honored by the University of Oxford in

1958 with an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. Notestein died on

February 3, 1969, in New Haven, Connecticut from

a heart attack.