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Creator
Curtis Brown Ltd.
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Curtis Brown
Physical description
133 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 correspondence, and legal and financial documents.

Biographical/historical information

Curtis Brown Ltd. is a literary agency based in London. It was founded in 1899 by Albert Curtis Brown.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence, and legal and financial documents. The bulk of the collection is letters, dating from 1906 to 1949, to Sir Hall Caine, Marie Corelli, Susan Glaspell, Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory, Clayton Meeker Hamilton, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Sean O'Casey, Michael Roberts, Muriel Rukeyser, William Butler Yeats, and the literary agency James B. Pinker and Son, as well as letters to Curtis Brown Ltd. from Max Beerbohm, Lady Gregoy, Sean O'Casey, Mary Webb, and others, dating from 1904 to 1930.

The Curtis Brown Ltd records are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The letters to W. B. Yeats came with Lady Gregory's papers. The letters to J. B. Pinker and Son were acquired from John D. Gordan's bequest.

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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