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Creator
Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Shorter
Physical description
741 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 correspondence.

Biographical/historical information

Clement King Shorter was an English editor, essayist, printer and publisher.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence. The manuscripts consist of poems, reviews, essays, biographies, and other material, dating from 1895 to 1917, by Grant Allen, Laurence Binyon, Augustine Birrell, George Henry Borrow, Geoffrey Dearmer, Austin Dobson, James Elroy Flecker, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Henrietta May MacAubrey, Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, Herbert Trench, Sir William Watson, Herbert George Wells, and Frida Wolfe, most of which was owned by Shorter. The correspondence consists of letters, dating from 1891 to 1924, from Shorter to Louis Becke, Sir Hall Caine, Padraic Colum, Joseph Conrad, Violet Hunt, James B. Pinker, John Morgan Richards, James B. Pinker and Son, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, many of which he previously owned, dating from 1853 to 1926, between various correspondents including Sir Hall Caine, Whitwell Elwin, Thomas Hardy, Henrietta Mary MacAubrey, Stephen Mackenna, Annie Doris Banfield Shorter, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Butler Yeats, and others. There are letters to Shorter from William Archer, J. M. Barrie, Sir Hall Caine, Austin Dobson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, Edward Verrall Lucas, Fortomino Matania, Alice Christiana (Thompson) Meynell, Arthur Reed Ropes, Lady Margaret Sackville, James Stephens, Sir William Watson, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, and others, dating from 1879 to 1926.

The Clement King Shorter collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials was owned by Clement King Shorter. Previous owners also include Howard Bliss, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, and the literary agency A. P. Watt and Son.

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.