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Creator
Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Rukeyser
Physical description
ca. 2, 290 items
Language
Some material in Spanish and French
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
Access to materials
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, notebooks, financial and legal documents, certificates, sketchbooks, and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

Muriel Rukeyser was an American poet, playwright, biographer, and writer of children's literature.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, notebooks, financial and legal documents, certificates, sketchbooks, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include essays, articles, poems, narrations, notes and outlines of works, scripts and scenarios, and translations. The correspondence, dating from 1933 to 1976, includes letters from the author to Kay Boyle, Babette Deutsch, Alfred Kazin, May Sarton, Frances Steloff, Louis Untermeyer, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author between various correspondents, including Matthew Josephson, Monica McCall, Octavio Paz, Max Lerner, Kenneth Rexroth, Louis Untermeyer, and others. There are letters to Rukeyser from Bernice Abbott, Conrad Aiken, Elizabeth Bishop, Eleanor Clark, I. Bernard Cohen, Malcolm Cowley, Babette Deutsch, Doubleday & Co., Robert Edmund Duncan, Herbert McLean Evans, Peter S. Feibleman, Sara Bard Field, Hallie Flanagan, Hank Fuller, Horace Gregory, Robert Herring, Granville Hicks, Miriam Jasspon, James Laughlin, Ruth Lehman, Denise Levertov, Helen (Merrell) Lynd, Carson McCullers, Lenore (Guinzburg) Marshall, William Meredith, Edith (Rosenfels) Nash, Nancy Naumburg, Pierre Payne, Norman Holmes Pearson, Katherine Anne Porter, Eugene Victor Rostow, Lawrence and Myra Lyons Rukeyser, May Sarton, Unicorn Press, Louis Untermeyer, Vassar College, Alice Walker, Marie de L. Welch, John Wheelwright, Antoinette Wilson, Theodore Carl Wilson, Ella Winter, Yale University Press, Elizabeth Young, The Young Communist League of the U.S., Marya Zaturenska, and others, dating from 1930 to 1976.

The Muriel Rukeyser collection of papers are arranged in four series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Some of the materials were previously owned by May Sarton and Louis Untermeyer.

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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