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Creator
Masefield, John, 1878-1967
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Masefield
Physical description
952 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, a diary for 1894, an undated notebook, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

John Masefield was a British poet, novelist, essayist and playwright.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, a diary for 1894, an undated notebook, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include holographs of stories, poems and drafts of poems, plays and play synopses, and autobiographical notes. The typescripts include poems and essays. There is an undated water color sketch of the author by Jack B. Yeats. The correspondence includes letters, from 1901 to [1966], from the author to Leonard Clark, Marilla Waite Freeman, Lady Gregory, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, his typist Ann O'Connor, Grant Richards, Elizabeth Robins, William Butler Yeats, and others. There are also letters, from [1902] to [1955], from Jack Butler Yeats to Ria Mooney, and between various correspondents relating to, or mentioning, the author. There are letters to the author from John Galsworthy, Elizabeth Robins, and others, dating from 1909 to 1910.

The John Masefield collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials is from W. T. H. Howe and from the estate of Gerald D. McDonald. Other materials were acquired with Masefield's correspondence with Elizabeth Robins and with Lady Gregory's papers.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. His "Ballades of Cold Corpses" was a gift of Sally and Lew David Feldman in memory of John Dozier Gordan.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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