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Title: Peter Mellini papers
Date (inclusive): 1888-2005
Collection Number: 2010C2
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3 manuscript boxes, 4 card file boxes
(2.9 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, and notes relating to Sir Eldon Gorst, British consul general in Egypt, used as research material
for the book by Peter Mellini,
Sir Eldon Gorst: The Overshadowed Proconsul (Stanford, 1977); and sound recordings of interviews of Theodore "Dutch" J. Van Kirk and Bernie Badler, American airmen during
World War II, relating to American aerial operations in Europe and to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
Includes ration books and other World War II miscellanea.
Creator:
Mellini, Peter
Creator:
Van Kirk, Theodore J.
Creator:
Badler, Bernie
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives between 2009 and 2011, with increments received in 2015 and 2016.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Peter Mellini papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
American historian.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, writings, and notes relating to Sir Eldon Gorst, British consul general in Egypt, used as research material
for the book by Peter Mellini,
Sir Eldon Gorst: The Overshadowed Proconsul (Stanford, 1977); and sound recordings of interviews of Theodore "Dutch" J. Van Kirk and Bernie Badler, American airmen during
World War II, relating to American aerial operations in Europe and to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
Includes ration books and other World War II miscellanea.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan
Audiotapes
Diplomats -- Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations
Atomic bomb
Egypt -- History -- British occupation, 1882-1936
United States. Army Air Forces
Gorst, Eldon, Sir, 1861-1911