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Creator
Mitgang, Herbert
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Mitgang
Physical description
141 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 correspondence written by the author between 1967 and 1975, as well as letters written to the author from 1950 to 1986.

Biographical/historical information

Herbert Mitgang was an American literary critic, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence written by the author between 1967 and 1975. The collection is comprised of letters, with replies, to Nelson Algren, Hannah Arendt, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, John Dos Passos, Leon Edel, Herbert Gold, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Graves, Graham Greene, Christopher Isherwood, Alfred Kazin, Doris Lessing, Archibald MacLeish, Norman Mailer, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, William Saroyan, Stephen Spender, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Penn Warren, Thornton Wilder, and others, as well as articles contributed to the New York Times. There are letters written to Mitgang from Kay Boyle, Archibald Colquhoun, Walter Lord, Herbert L. Matthews, Sir Osbert Sitwell, and others, dating from 1950 to 1986.

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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