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Creator
Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Mitford
Physical description
70 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 portraits of the author.

Biographical/historical information

Mary Russell Mitford was an English poet, playwright, and short-story writer.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by the author, and portraits of the author. The manuscripts consist of her poems, as well as envelopes addressed in her hand. The correspondence consists of letters by the author, dating from [1829] to 1854, to Richard Bentley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Henry Horne, John Lucas, and others. There are letters to Mitford from Alexander Dyce and H. H. Milman dating from 1834 to 1854 or 1855.

The Mary Russell Mitford collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include William Deming 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.

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

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.