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Creator
Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Marsh
Physical description
5,574 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, financial documents, portraits, and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

Sir Edward Howard Marsh was a British editor.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, financial documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include holograph poems, notes for work, and other manuscript material. Also included are manuscripts by Lascelles Abercrombie, Raymond Asquith, Edmund Charles Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Frances Cornford, Walter De la Mare, James Elroy Flecker, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Robert Graves, Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Shanks, and others. The correspondence consists of letters, dating from 1907-1952, from the author to Lady Cynthia Asquith, Henry James, Alida Klemantaski Monro, Harold Monro, Edward Sackville-West, Siegfried Sassoon, Leonard Sidney Woolf, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1891 to 1958, between various correspondents, including Rupert Brooke, John Glasworthy, Aldous Huxley, John Masefield, Marcel Proust, and others. There are letters to the author from Lascelles Abercrombie, Maurice Baring, Edmund Charles Blunden, Gordon Bottomley, Robert Seymour Bridges, Frances Darwin Cornfrod, Walter D'Arcy Cressell, William Henry Davies, Walter De la Mare, John Drinkwater, James Elroy Flecker, E. M. Forster, Ronald Fuller, Mark Gertler, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Robert Graves, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, John Masefield, W. S. Maugham, Harold Monro, Paul Nash, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Shanks, Oswald Sickert, Stanley Spencer, John Collings Squire, Francis Brett Young, and others, dating from 1889 to 1952.

The Edward Howard Marsh collection of papers are arranged in four 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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