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Creator
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Murry
Physical description
432 items
Language
Some material in French
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 one typescript.

Biographical/historical information

John Middleton Murry, the husband of Katherine Mansfield, was an English biographer, literary critic, essayist, novelist, playwright, and poet.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of a typescript and correspondence by and about the author. The undated typescript is by Frederick Victor Banford. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from [1911?] to 1952, to Anne Fremantle, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Thomas Moult, George Orwell, A. W. Votier, Humbert Wolfe, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1928 to 1962, between various correspondents including Edmund C. Blunden, T. S. Eliot, Laurence Housman, Aldous Huxley, Frank Alfred Lea, Eric Pinker, Max Plowman, Sir Richard Rees, Michael Sadleir, Frank Swinnerton, Henry Williamson, and others. There are letters to Murry from Arnold Bennett, Robert Bridges, Joyce Cary, Walter De la Mare, Georges Duhamel, T. S. Eliot, Havelock Ellis, M. Buxton Forman, W. W. Gibson, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Edward Howard Marsh, George Orwell, Countess Mary Russell, Lytton Strachey, Hugh Walpole, Virginia Woolf, and others, dating from 1912 to 1956.

The John Middleton Murry collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Murry was the previous owner of Banford's typescript.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The letter to Eric Pinker was a bequest of John D. Gordan.

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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