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Creator
Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Corelli
Physical description
766 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 typescripts, correspondence, and financial documents.

Biographical/historical information

Marie Corelli was an English novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts, correspondence, and financial documents. The typescripts include a play and memoranda relating to the author. The correspondence, dating from 1893 to 1919, includes letters from the author to Ford Madox Ford, Lady Gregory, Clement King Shorter, T. Fisher Unwin, and the literary agency A. P. Watt and Son, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1896 to 1955, between various correspondents including A. H. Bell, Bertha Vyver, Field, Roscoe & Co; the literary agency A. P. Watt and Son, and others. There are letters to Corelli from Paul Berton, The Bystander, Edward F. Fisher, J. B. Lippincott Co., Sir Algernon Methuen, A. P. Watt and Son, and others, dating from 1896 to 1916.

The Marie Corelli collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include A. P. Watt and Son.

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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