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Creator
Mew, Charlotte Mary, 1869-1928
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Mew
Physical description
436 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, correspondence, and financial documents.

Biographical/historical information

Charlotte Mary Mew was a British poet and short-story writer.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, and financial documents. The manuscripts consist of a poem by the author, as well as manuscripts relating to the author by Thomas Hardy, John Masefield, and Humbert Wolfe. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1917 to 1928, to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Florence Emily Hardy, Ethel Robinson Inglis, Alida Klemantaski Monro, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1923 to 1944, between various correspondents including Sydney Cockerell, John Masefield, Ethel Oliver, Siegfried Sassoon, and others. There are letters to Mew from Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Florence Hardy, Harold Monro, May Sinclair, Louis Untermeyer, and others, dating from 1913 to 1928.

The Charlotte Mary Mew collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Frank J. Hogan and Harold Monro.

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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