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Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Steinbeck
Physical description
31 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 legal documents.

Biographical/historical information

John Steinbeck was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and short-story writer.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of a manuscript, a typescript, correspondence, and legal documents. The manuscript, in Steinbeck's hand, is the foreword to his novel, "Tortilla Flat," and the typescript is an article about the author by Joseph Henry Jackson. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from [1937] to [1962], to Paul P. Appel, George Pashe, Louis Untermeyer, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1940 to 1943, between various correspondents including Arthur Altschul, Archibald MacLeish, and Harry Thornston Moore. There is a letter to Steinbeck from Louis Untermeyer written in October 1962.

The John Steinbeck collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Arthur Altschul and the American Play Company.

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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