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Creator
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Hearn
Physical description
105 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, correspondence, and notebooks dating from 1896 to 1897.

Biographical/historical information

Lafcadio Hearn, born in Greece and raised in Ireland, France, and England, was an American short-story and travel writer, journalist, literary critic, translator, poet, and author of culinary literature.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, and notebooks dating from 1896 to 1897. The manuscripts include stories, translations, a reading list, and fragments of stories. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence by the author, dating from 1883 to 1904, to Ellwood Hendrick, William D. O'Connor, Elizabeth Bisland Wetmore, and the literary agency T. Fisher Unwin, as well as letters relating to the author, dated 1890, between various correspondents, including H. M. Alden, G. M. Gould, Albert Mordell, and others.

The Lafcadio Hearn collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Frank Fletcher, Bliss Perry, W. T. H. Howe, and Thomas and Jania Erwin.

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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