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Creator
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Belloc
Physical description
1,126 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 by and about the author, a travel diary for 1930, a commonplace book for 1924, and financial documents.

Biographical/historical information

Hilaire Belloc was an English and French novelist, poet, translator, and literary critic.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, a travel diary for 1930, a commonplace book for 1924, and financial documents. The manuscripts and typescripts comprise poems, articles, and essays by the author. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1897 to 1942, to Edmund C. Bentley, Lady Juliet Duff, Elizabeth and Mervyn Herbert, Lady Laura Lovat, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, C. H. Norman, Lucian Oldershaw, T. Fisher Unwin, A. P. Watt and Son, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1929 to 1950, between various correspondents including Eleanor Jebb, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, A. P. Watt and Son, and others.

The Hilaire Belloc collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Lady Juliet Duff, Lady Sybil Graham, Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory, W. T. H. Howe, and Sir Edward Howard Marsh.

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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