Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers

id
5506
origination
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910
date statement
1856-1938 [bulk 1870-1938]
key date
1856
identifier (local_mss)
19174
org unit
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
call number
Berg Coll MSS Clemens
b-number
b15893396
total components
883
total series
4
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Berg Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:05:20 UTC
updated
2026-08-16 02:10:16 UTC
status note
(missing)
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unitdate
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{"value"=>"1870-1938", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1870/1938"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers"}
repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature</span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"This is a synthetic collection consisting of portraits, pictorial works, manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence from, to, and about the author, a diary for 1885, a notebook for 1895, 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"=>"Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and literary and social critic. Born on November 30, 1835 he wrote fiction and non-fiction under the pseudonyms Mark Twain, Sieur Louis de Conte, Quentin Curtius Snodgrass, and Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass.</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials was previously owned by W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. Other materials were previously owned by William Harris Arnold, Margaret Blackmer, the American Play Company, William F. Gable, Alan Norman Mendleson, and Seth Terry.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p> This is a synthetic collection consisting of portraits, pictorial works, manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence from, to, and about the author, a diary for 1885, a notebook for 1895, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include drafts and manuscripts of novels, short stories, poems, articles and essays, and lectures. The correspondence includes letters and telegrams, dating from 1867 to 1909, from the author to Sylvester Baxter, Elisha Bliss, Frank Bliss, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Chatto, Chatto & Windus, his wife Olivia, his brother Orion Clemens, Frederick Duneka, Franklin Fuller, Fred J. Hall, William Dean Howells, Isabel Lyon, James R. Osgood, the Rev. Edwin P. Parker, James B. Pond, James Redpath, Henry Huddleston Rogers, Theodore Roosevelt, Percy Spalding, A. R. Spofford, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Teller, Irving S. Underhill, and to others. There are also a number of copies of letters in Isabel Lyon's hand. The correspondence also includes letters relating to the author, dating from 1862 to 1935, between various correspondents including N. M. Butler, Sir Hugh Walpole, Moncure Daniel Conway, Andrew Chatto, W. D. Howells, Frederick Duneka, Merle Johnson, J. N. Larned, Isabel Lyon, W. T. H. Howe, E. W. Nye, A. B. Paine, G. H. Putnam, F. N. Doubleday, Major James Burton Pond, Romaine W. Seaver, Thomas E. Sherman, P. T. Sherman, Bram Stoker, and others. Also present are letters to Clemens from Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William Dean Howells, Henry H. Rogers, and others.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers is arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19174#c765980'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19174#c765987'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19174#c765991'>Financial and Legal Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19174#c765992'>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>"}
date_inclusive_start
1856
date_inclusive_end
1938
note
{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
keydate
1856
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
extent_statement
717 items
sponsor
{"value"=>"Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation."}
date_start
1856
date_end
1938
date_bulk_start
1870
date_bulk_end
1938

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