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Creator
Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Burke
Physical description
1,054 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, and correspondence.

Biographical/historical information

Kenneth Burke was an American writer of short stories, historical dramas, and criticism, as well as a poet, and translator.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence. The manuscripts and typescripts include short-stories, essays, poems, and reviews. The correspondence, dating from 1922 to 1983, includes letters from the author to Djuna Barnes, Muriel Rukeyser, Frances Steloff, Hildegarde and James Watson, Jr., and others. There are also letters to the author, dating from 1940 to 1966, from Djuna Barnes, Wallace Fowlie, Francis Golffing, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Stephen Spender, James Sibley Watson, and others.

The Kenneth Burke collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The letters to Hildegarde and James Watson came with J. S. Watson's papers.

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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