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Creator
Meredith, William, 1919-2007
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Meredith
Physical description
101 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 typescripts, correspondence, and legal documents.

Biographical/historical information

William Meredith was an American poet, literary critic, librettist, and translator.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, and legal documents. The manuscripts and typescripts include poems by the author, as well as manuscript transcriptions of Robert Lowell's translations of the works of Victor Hugo and Boris Pasternak. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1941 to 1973, to W. H. Auden, Babette Deutsch, Randall Jarrell, Chester Kallman, Samuel Menashe, Muriel Rukeyser, Peter Salus, and others, as well as a letter, dated 1969, from Chester Kallman to James Merrill relating to the author. There are letters to Meredith from W. H. Auden, John Berryman, T. S. Eliot, Chester Kallman, and Peter Salus, dating from [1955] to 1972.

The William Meredith collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Mary von Schrader Jarrell and Muriel Rukeyser.

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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