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Creator
Plomer, William, 1903-1973
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Plomer
Physical description
257 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, and correspondence.

Biographical/historical information

William Plomer was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, librettist, and songwriter.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, and correspondence. The manuscripts and typescripts consist of librettos, essays, interviews, lectures, and poems by the author. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1921 to 1973, to Graham Ackroyd, Susan Hill, Simon Nowell-Smith, William Sansom, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, and others. There is also a letter to Plomer from W. S. Maugham, dated Sept. 30, 1934.

The William Plomer 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. Plomer's essay on Virginia Woolf was a gift of Simon Nowell-Smith.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. Plomer's essay on Virginia Woolf was a gift of Simon Nowell-Smith.

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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