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Creator
Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps), 1865-1947
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Shiel
Physical description
519 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 and typescripts, correspondence, portraits, and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

Matthew Phipps Shiel was a British novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet, and translator.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include early and later drafts of his "Lord of the Sea," "Some Thoughts on Gun-Fire," a second draft of "Days of Destiny," notes toward works, and other miscellaneous manuscript material. The typescripts include a draft and proof of "Days of Destiny," a list of his works dated 1931, and an authorization to Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence, dating from 1893 to 1946, from the author to Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, Wilfred Hugh Chesson, Grant Richards, G. H. Wiggins, Charles H. Daniels, Carl Van Vechten, and others. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from 1923 to [1948], exchanged between Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, John Days Beresford, Thomas Burke, John Buchan, Alfred E. Coppard, Lord Alfred Douglas, Alfred Knopf, Alfred E. W. Mason, Albert Reynolds Morse, Carl Van Vechten, and others. There are letters to Shiel from John Davys Beresford, Alfred Edward Woodley Mason, and Grant Richards, dating from 1898 to 1935.

The Matthew Phipps Shiel collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The portrait photograph of the author contains Carl Van Vechten's bookplate.

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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