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Creator
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Churchill
Physical description
33 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, correspondence, and an undated notebook.

Biographical/historical information

Sir Winston Churchill was an English politician, essayist, biographer, and writer of historical and political literature.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, and an undated notebook. The manuscripts and typescripts consist of an obituary for Rupert Brooke, as well as notes, poems, and an article about the author by Max Beerbohm, John Masefield, and Vincent Sheean. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from [1898?] to 1947, to Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Vincent Sheean, Humbert Wolfe, and the literary agency of A. P. Watt and Son, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1910 to 1954, between various correspondents, including Richard Aldington, Leonard Clark, Frank Harris, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Hugh Owen Meredith, Virginia Woolf, and A. P. Watt and Son. Also present are letters to Churchill from Timothy Healy, Sir Edward Marsh, and Vincent Sheean, dating from 1921 to 1940.

The Sir Winston Churchill collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The holograph obituary of Rupert Brooke was included in Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence.

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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