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Creator
Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878-1957
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Coppard
Physical description
164 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 manuscript and typescripts, correspondence, and financial documents.

Biographical/historical information

Alfred Edgar Coppard was a British novelist, short-story writer, and poet.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscript and typescripts, correspondence to and from the author, and financial documents. The manuscripts and typescripts consist of poems, stories, articles, and other material. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1920 to 1951, to Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, J. W. Nance, Jacob Schwartz, Wilbur Macey Stone, and others. There are also letters to Coppard, from Terence Ian Fytton Armstong, Wilbur Macey Stone, and Frank Arthur Swinnerton, dating from 1930 to 1951.

The Alfred Edgar Coppard collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, and W. T. H. Howe.

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