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Creator
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Boyle
Physical description
1,137 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 typescripts and manuscripts, correspondence, legal documents, and portrait photographs.

Biographical/historical information

Kay Boyle was an American essayist, novelist, short-story writer, translator, essayist, and translator.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts and manuscripts, correspondence, legal documents, and portrait photographs. The manuscripts and typescripts include poems and drafts of poems, essays, and criticism, as well as the carbon typescript of her first novel, "Process." The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1925 to 1985, to Babette Deutsch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ian Franckenstein, Herbert Mitgang, Frances Steloff, Louise Morgan Theis, Lafayette Young, and others. Also present are letters, dating from 1944 through 1987, between various individuals, including Ian Franckenstein, Joseph Franckenstein, William Lawrence Shirer, and others relating to the author. There are letters from Joan Baez, Djuna Barnes, Herb Caen, Marchette Gaylord Chute, Ruby Cohn, Babette Deutsch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hugh Ford, Norman Macleod, Howard Nemerov, Shawn Hsu Wong, and others, to the author, dating from [1938] to 1986.

The Kay Boyle 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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