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Creator
Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Jarrell
Physical description
996 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, notebooks from 1939 to 1951, legal documents and certificates, portraits, and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

Randall Jarrell was an American literary critic, poet, children's literature writer, and translator.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, notebooks from 1939 to 1951, legal documents and certificates, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include articles, notes, children's stories, lectures, poems, essays, interviews, lists, reviews, criticism, translations and drafts of translations. The correspondence includes letters dating from [1926] to 1967, from the author to Kenneth Burke, his mother Anna Jarrell, his first wife Mackie Jarrell, Alfred Kazin, Sister Bernetta Quinn, and Louis Untermeyer. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1947 to 1969, between various correspondents including John Berryman, Philip Booth, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Mary von Schrader Jarrell, Robert Penn Warren, and others. There are letters to Jarrell from John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Gregory Corso, Michael Di Capua, Robert Lowell, Heather Ross Miller, Sister Bernetta Quinn, Adrienne Rich, Maurice Sendak, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Peter Hillsman Taylor, Louis Untermeyer, and others, some addressed also to Mary von Schrader Jarrell, dating from 1936 to 1969.

The Randall Jarrell collection of papers are arranged in five series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Some of the materials were previously owned by Mary von Schrader Jarrell.

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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