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Creator
Sansom, William, 1912-1976
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Sansom
Physical description
331 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 and typescripts, correspondence, notebooks for 1926 through 1932, financial documents, certificates, and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

William Sansom was a British writer of novels, short stories, travel literature, children's literature, biographies, essays, and film scripts.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, notebooks for 1926 through 1932, financial documents, certificates, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include essays and drafts of essays, drafts of novels, stories, notes for work, articles, criticism, poems, and a bibliography of his work. The correspondence, dating from 1967 to 1972, includes letters from the author to his parents Ernest Brooks and Mabel Clark Sansom, to Leonard Clark, and to Lola L. Szladits, as well as letters from Cecil Woolf and John Bagguley to the author. Also present is a letter relating to the author's son from Sir Basil Zaharoff to Ernest Brooks Sansom. There are letters to William Sansom from Arturo Barea, Elizabeth Bowen, Michael Braude, Norman Cameron, Dorothy K. Haynes, Michael Meyer, William Plomer, Michael Powell, Progress Publishing Company, John Sommerfield, the J. Walter Thompson Company, Arthur Waley, and others, dating from 1934 to 1966.

The William Sansom collection of papers are arranged in five 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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