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Creator
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Sinclair, U
Physical description
185 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 a manuscript, a typescript, correspondence, and a portrait photograph.

Biographical/historical information

Upton Sinclair was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, and journalist.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of a manuscript, a typescript, correspondence by and about the author, and a portrait photograph. The manuscript is by Helen Woodward, and the typescript is an essay by Sinclair. The correspondence consists of letters by the author, dating from 1906 to 1962, to Devere Allen, Howard Fast, Ernest S. Greene, Alfred Kazin, Frances Steloff, Helen Rosen Woodward, and William E. Woodward, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1906 to 1959, between various correspondents including Eugene Filteau, Ernest S. Greene, Helen Rosen Woodward, William E. Woodward, and others. There are letters to Sinclair from Joseph Banks Rhine, Helen (Rosen) Woodward, William E. Woodward, dating from 1932 to 1944.

The Upton Sinclair collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Helen Rosen Woodward and William E. Woodward.

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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