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Creator
O'Connor, William Douglas, 1832-1889
Call number
Berg Coll MSS O'Connor, WD
Physical description
241 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.

Biographical/historical information

William Douglas O'Connor was an American novelist, essayist, editor, and journalist.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence by and relating to the author. The manuscripts consist of notes, essays, and articles, some of which relate to Walt Whitman. The correspondence consists of letters, dating from 1866 to 1883, from the author to Matthew Arnold, G. W. Curtis, J. R. Gilmore, and others, as well as a letter transcribed by the author, dated 1866, from Julius Bing to Joseph H. Ashton, and an undated letter to Moncure D. Conway transcribed by Walt Whitman but signed by O'Connor. There are letters to O'Connor from Charles Wesley Eldridge, Lafcadio Hearn, H. J. Raymond, Thomas Jefferson Whitman, Walt Whitman, and others, dating from 1863 to 1888.

The William Douglas O'Connor collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Bliss Perry 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.

Related Material

Consult the Berg Collection staff for additional unprocessed material of this author.

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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