T. S. Eliot collection of papers

id
5863
origination
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
date statement
1918-1989 [bulk 1918-1957]
key date
1918
identifier (local_mss)
19153
org unit
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
call number
Berg Coll MSS Eliot, TS
b-number
b15858189
total components
132
total series
4
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:05:26 UTC
updated
2026-08-16 02:09:43 UTC
status note
(missing)
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true

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unitdate
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unittitle
{"value"=>"T. S. Eliot 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 manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, an undated notebook, legal documents, and portraits of the author."}
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"=>"Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>T. S. Eliot was an American and British poet, playwright, literary critic, and essayist.</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the material was previously owned by Frank V. Morley. Other materials were formerly owned by Louis C. Greene, Leonard Clark, Henry Miller, the American Play Company, the Group Theatre archive, and John Quinn, the former owner of \"The Waste Land\" typescript/manuscript. The collection also includes gifts by Robert Giroux and Eric Sheffield. Donald Gallup's volume of the \"Lost Manuscripts\" of T. S. Eliot is inscribed by the author to the Berg Collection.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, an undated notebook, legal documents, and portraits of the author. The typescripts and manuscripts include poems, criticism, plays, and lectures. Also included are poems, criticism, eulogies, essays, and notes toward works, in typescript and manuscript, by W. H. Auden, Donald Gallup, Randall Jarrell, Frank V. Morley, Sean O'Casey, Ezra Pound, Stephen Spender, Lytton Strachey, and others. Among this material is the typescript/manuscript of \"The Waste Land,\" with Ezra Pound's annotations. Correspondence dates from 1918 to 1964, whose recipients include Sylvia Beach, Rupert Doone, Ahme Haigh-Wood, W. S. Merwin, Henry Miller, Frank V. Morley, Michael Roberts, Edward Sackville-West, Vernon Watkins, Humbert Wolfe, Leonard Sidney Woolf, Virginia Woolf, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1919 to 1989, between various correspondents, including Willa Cather, Donald Gallup, Alfred Kazin, Frank V. Morley, Cynthia Ozick, Ezra Pound, Herbert Edward Read, Muriel Rukeyser, Edith Sitwell, Frances Steloff, Lytton Strachey, and others. There are letters to T. S. Eliot from Frank V. Morley, Dachine Rainer, Michael Roberts, Louis Untermeyer, Virginia Woolf, and from Malcolm Merritt of the The James Joyce Society, dating from 1930 to 1961.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The T. S. Eliot collection of papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19153#c247212'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19153#c247264'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19153#c247336'>Legal Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19153#c247338'>Portraits</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
1918
date_inclusive_end
1989
note
{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
keydate
1918
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
extent_statement
678 items
date_start
1918
date_end
1989
date_bulk_start
1918
date_bulk_end
1957

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