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Creator
Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Lowell, R
Physical description
88 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
Access to materials
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, a notebook for 1970, as well as correspondence.

Biographical/historical information

Robert Lowell was an American poet, playwright, and translator.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, a notebook for 1970, as well as correspondence by and about the author. The manuscripts and typescripts include poems and translations. The correspondence, dating from 1943 through 1976, is from the author to Babette Deutsch, Anne Fremantle, Randall Jarrell, Alfred Kazin, Marianne Moore, Ruth Witt-Diamant, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1950 to 1977, between various correspondents, including Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Booth, Richard Eberhart, Randall Jarrell, and others. There are letters to Lowell from William Meredith, Peter Salus, and Louis Untermeyer, dating from 1960 to 1971.

The Robert Lowell collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

One of the translations was contained among Randall Jarrell'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.

Related Material

Consult the Berg Collection staff for additional unprocessed materials including manuscripts, correspondence, and printed materials with the author's manuscript emendations.

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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