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Creator
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Millay, E
Physical description
1,971 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
Access to materials
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, notebooks from 1909 to 1912 and 1935, correspondence, financial and legal documents, and portraits of the author.

Biographical/historical information

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and essayist.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, notebooks from 1909 to 1912 and 1935, correspondence, financial and legal documents, and portraits of the author. The collection also includes manuscripts and typescripts, diaries for the years 1911 to 1917, and legal documents relating to the author from various individuals, including her sister Kathleen Millay many of whose papers are also in the Berg Collection. The correspondence, dating from 1909 to 1950, includes letters, postcards, and telegrams to Kathleen Millay, Frances Shapli, John Hall Wheelock, Harper & Brothers publishers, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1917 to 1974, between various correspondents, including her husband Eugen Jan Boissevain, Arthur Davison Ficke, Ralph Fitzwater, Autti James, W. Somerset Maugham, Kathleen Millay, Norma Millay, Vincent Sheean, Robert Penn Warren, Edmund Wilson, Harper & Brothers publishers, and others. There are letters to Millay from Frank Altschul, Kathleen Millay, Henry Tolman Millay, and others, dating from 1916 to 1952.

The Edna St. Vincent Millay collection of papers are arranged in four series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials were formerly owned by Kathleen Millay, Norma Millay, Harper & Row, and the American Play Company.

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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