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Creator
Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Nin
Physical description
183 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 a typescript and correspondence.

Biographical/historical information

Anaïs Nin was a French and American novelist, poet, essayist, diarist, and short-story writer.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of a typescript and correspondence. The typescript is by Michael Fraenkel, written for "We Moderns," Gotham Book Mart's catalog, no. 42, published in 1940. The correspondence includes letters from Nin, dating from [1936] to [1975], to Howard Griffin, Henry Miller, Frances Steloff, Aaron Traister, and Ruth Witt-Diamant, as well as a group of letters and postcards from Henry Miller to Frank Dobo relating to Nin, written from [1932] through 1972. There is a letter to Nin from Caresse Crosby, written in Jan. 1970.

The Anaïs Nin collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

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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