Robert Graves collection of papers

id
5319
origination
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
date statement
1914-1975
key date
1914
identifier (local_mss)
19197
org unit
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
call number
Berg Coll MSS Graves
b-number
b15922524
total components
140
total series
4
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:05:17 UTC
updated
2026-08-16 02:10:28 UTC
status note
(missing)
Display Aeon link
true

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unitdate
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date_inclusive_start
1914
date_inclusive_end
1975
keydate
1914
unittitle
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repository
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abstract
{"value"=>"This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, notebooks, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works."}
prefercite
{"value"=>"<p>[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
origination
{"value"=>"Graves, Robert, 1895-1985", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Robert Graves was a British poet, novelist, translator, and writer of ballads, children's literature, essays, librettos, and literary criticism.</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>Many of the the materials were formerly owned by Sir Edward Howard Marsh and Doubleday & Co.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, notebooks, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include poems, some transcribed by Sir Edward Howard Marsh; plays, essays, notes for works, and criticism. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1914 to 1972, to T. I. F. Armstrong, Juanita and Sven Berlin, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, James Burton Pond, Michael Roberts, Siegfried Sassoon, the literary agency J. B. Pinker and Son, and others. There are letters to Graves from Cecil Day-Lewis, Walter de la Mare, Geoffrey Grigson, Herbert Mitgang, Siegfried Sassoon, Louis Untermeyer, and others, dating from 1922 to 1970.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Robert Graves collection of papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19197#c242911'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19197#c242986'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19197#c243043'>Legal Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19197#c243045'>Portraits and Pictorial Works</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.</p>"}
userestrict
{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature</p>"}
note
{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
extent_statement
1,123 items
date_start
1914
date_end
1975

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