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Creator
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Crane
Physical description
160 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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Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online.

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, manuscript reproductions, typescripts, and correspondence.

Biographical/historical information

Stephen Crane was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, manuscript reproductions, typescripts, and correspondence. The manuscripts and typescripts comprise poems, portions of plays and novels, stories, essays on the author, and reviews of his work. The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1894 to 1899, from the author to Mark Barr, Ripley Hitchcock, Daniel G. Thompson, H. B. Marriott Watson, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1899 to 1946, between various correspondents, including Cora Crane, Alfred Edward Woodley Mason, G. H. Perris, Alfred Plant, and others. There is also an undated letter from Ripley Hitchcock to Stephen Crane.

The Stephen Crane collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

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

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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