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Creator
Moore, George, 1852-1933
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Moore, G
Physical description
1,314 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, legal documents, an undated notebook, and portraits.

Biographical/historical information

George Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, autobiographer, essayist and playwright.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, legal documents, an undated notebook, and portraits. The manuscripts and typescripts include drafts and fragments of poems, some of which are in W. B. Yeats' hand or which bear his corrections; synopses, interviews, and notes for works, as well as essays and notes about the author by Barrett Harper Clark and Humbert Wolfe. The correspondence includes letters, dating from [1871] to 1931, from the author to Eliza Davis Aria, Lionel H. Barton, Padraic Colum, Sir Sidney Colvin, William Leonard Courtney, Lady Maud Cunard, Nancy Cunard, Theodore Duret, Crosby Gaige, Edmund Gosse, Miss Gough, Lady Gregory, Hilda Hawthorne, Violet Hunt, to his secretary Mona Kingdon, to Clara Lanza, Thomas Werner Laurie, Sir Edward Marsh, Leonard Rees, William Michael Rossetti, James Stephens, Millicent Fanny Sutherland, T. Fisher Unwin, Carl Van Vechten, James R. Wells, Humbert Wolfe, W. B. Yeats, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1903 to 1939, between various correspondents, including Lady Gregory, Thomas Hardy, John Middleton Murry, John Quinn, and others. There are letters to Moore from Arnold Bennett, Lady Gregory, Ada Leverson, Edward Martyn, and W. B. Yeats, dating from 1891 to 1931.

The George Moore collection of papers are arranged in four series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials was formerly owned by W. T. H. Howe and Lady Gregory. Other former owners include Sir Edward Howard Marsh, T. Fisher Unwin, Alfred F. Goldsmith, Arthur Pforzheimer, John Quinn, Edith Barbara Tranter, 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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