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Creator
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Beerbohm
Physical description
546 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 1911-1933, an undated notebook, legal documents, portraits and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

Sir Max Beerbohm was a British essayist, drama critic, and caricaturist.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, a diary for 1911-1933, an undated notebook, legal documents, portraits and pictorial works. The manuscripts include holographs from "A Christmas Garland," "The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill," and other essays; notes toward works, and short stories. The typescripts include essays, stories, and contributions to a collection of tributes to the author for his 80th birthday. The legal documents include agreements and royalty statements for the author and the author's will. The correspondence includes letters, from 1885 to 1955, from the author to Edmund Gosse, Selwyn Jepson, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author and his 80th birthday tribute album, dating from 1903 to 1964, between various correspondents including Clive Bell, Robert W. Fenn, William Heinemann, Ltd., Selwyn Jepson, and others. There are letters to Beerbohm from Selwyn Jepson, W. S. Maugham, Bernard Shaw, and others, dating from 1898 to 1956.

The Max Beerbohm collection of papers are arranged in four series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Former owners include W. T. H. Howe, Owen D. Young, Frank Fletcher, and Rupert Brooke.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

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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