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Creator
Symons, Julian, 1912-1994
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Symons, J
Physical description
600 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, typescripts, and correspondence.

Biographical/historical information

Julian Symons was an English novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, short-story writer, historian, and biographer.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence by and about the author. The manuscripts and typescripts consist of essays, articles, notes for work, poems, synopses, portions of novels, and lectures by the author, as well as poems and articles by Robert Conquest, Eric A. Lockley, Philip O'Connor, Hugh Leslie Perkoff, Hugh Gordon Porteous, Frederic Prokosh, Keidrych Rhys, Francis Scarfe, Ruthven Todd, and George Woodcock relating to the author or previously owned by him. The correspondence consists of letters by the author, dating from 1938 to 1967, to Cyril Connolly, Harold Fisher, Graham Greene, Geoffrey Grigson, and others, as well as a letter relating to the author, dated 1943 from Derek S. Savage to the editors of the Partisan Review. There are letters to Symons from Chatto & Windus in London, Robert Conquest, Eyre & Spottiswoode in London, Harper & Bros. in New York, Herbert B. Mallalieu, Samuel French Morse, Philip O'Connor, George Marion O'Donnell, George Orwell, Hugh Leslie Perkoff, Hugh Gordon Porteous, Guy Pritchett, Frederic Prokosch, Keidrych Rhys, Laura Riding, Derek S. Savage, Francis Scarfe, Lancelot de Giberne Sieveking, Wallace Stevens, Ruthven Todd, Henry Treece, Gladys Weeks, and others dating from [1929] to 1967.

The Julian Symons collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the material is from Julian Symons.

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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