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Creator
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Warner, ST
Physical description
400 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
Access to materials
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, a typescript, and correspondence.

Biographical/historical information

Sylvia Townsend Warner was an English novelist, poet, biographer, and translator.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, a typescript, and correspondence. The manuscripts and typescript consist of poems by the author and an article by Stephen Spender. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1922 to 1978, to Leonard Clark, David Garnett, Howard Griffin, Samuel Menashe, Humbert Wolfe, and others. There are letters to Warner from David Garnett, Ray Garnett, Cecil Woolf, and John Bagguley, dating from 1924 to 1978.

The Sylvia Townsend Warner collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Samuel Menashe.

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.