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Creator
Walpole, Hugh, Sir, 1884-1941
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Walpole
Physical description
716 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, and portraits.

Biographical/historical information

Sir Hugh Walpole was a British novelist, short story writer, and literary critic.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, and portraits. The collection includes holographs of articles, essays, and poems, as well as essays and poems relating to Walpole in manuscript and typescript by various authors including Sinclair Lewis, Humbert Wolfe and others. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence from the author, dating from 1909 to 1941, to Cecil Day-Lewis, Jack Elliot, the Golden Cockerell Press, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, James B. Pinker, Martin Secker, Carl Van Vechten, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, and others; as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1913 to 1962, between various correspondents, including Harold Cheevers, Carl Van Vechten, W. S. Maugham, Rebecca West, and others. There are letters to Walpole from Louis Bromfield, Jo Davidson, Ellen Glasgow, the Golden Cockerell Press, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Don Marquis, Christopher Morley, W. L. Phelps, Frederic Prokosch, Gene Tunney, Carl Van Vechten, and others, dating from 1919 to 1940.

The Sir Hugh Walpole collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Former owners include Carl Van Vechten, William Maxwell, Gilbert H. Montague, and W. T. H. Howe.

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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