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Creator
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Arnold [Text]
Physical description
15 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 correspondence to and from the author.

Biographical/historical information

Matthew Arnold was an English literary critic, poet, and essayist.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence by the author. The manuscripts include poems, essays, and notes about the author by Louise De la Ramee, Randall Jarrell, and Louis MacNeice. The correspondence, dating from 1857 to 1888, includes letters from the author to John Duke Coleridge, Edmund Gosse, William D. O'Connor, Stanhope Sprigg, and others, as well a letter from William Douglas O'Connor to the author relating to Walt Whitman.

The Matthew Arnold collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include W. T. H. Howe and Bliss Perry.

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

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature