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Creator
Nichols, Robert, 1893-1944
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Nichols
Physical description
365 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, portraits, and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols was an English poet and playwright.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscript and typescript include poems, drafts of stories, and notes. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1915 to 1941, to Arnold Bennett, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Sarah St. Benedict Mayer, Harold Monro, Siegfried Sassoon, Clement King Shorter, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1919 to 1940, between various correspondents, including Robert Graves, Henry Head, James Burton Pond, Siegfried Sassoon, and the literary firm of James B. Pinker and Son. There are letters to Nichols from Edmund Charles Blunden, Roy Campbell, Paul Claudel, Eugene Goosens, Aldous Huxley, John Masefield, Ezra Pound, Bertrand Russell, Siegfried Sassoon, and Stephen Spender, dating from 1922 to 1940.

The Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Clement King Shorter.

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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