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Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Keats
Physical description
54 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 by and about the poet, correspondence, and an undated notebook.

Biographical/historical information

John Keats was an English poet and literary critic.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts by and about the poet, correspondence, and an undated notebook. The manuscripts include poems and portions of poems, some of which are copied in the hand of Frederick Locker-Lampson and Helen (Merrell) Lynd. The manuscripts also include poems, essays, and notes relating to Keats by Charles Causley, Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Jennings, and Edward Thomas. The correspondence consists of letters from the poet, dating from 1816 to [1820], to Fanny Brawne, Charles Cowden Clarke, Leigh Hunt, and others, as well as letters relating to Keats, dating from [1883] to 1948, between various correspondents, including Sir Sidney Colvin, H. Buxton Forman, Maurice Buxton Forman, John D. Gordan, Leigh Hunt, Amy Lowell, William Sharp, W. Van R. Whitall, Thomas J. Wise, Henrietta Woodhouse, and others.

The John Keats collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Leonard Clark, Amelia B. Edwards, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Jerome Kern, W. T. H. Howe, and Owen D. Young.

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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