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Creator
Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Wise
Physical description
41 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.

Biographical/historical information

Thomas James Wise was an English book collector, printer, bibliographer, and literary forger.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence. The correspondence includes letters from Wise, dating from 188-? to 1935, to Sir Sidney Colvin, H. Buxton Forman, de V. Payen-Payne, Eric S. Pinker, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Cyril Hackett Wilkinson, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1876 to 1939, between various correspondents, including Harry Treffry Dunn, H. Buxton Forman, W. T. H. Howe, E. V. Lucas, Wilfred George Partington, Theodore Watts-Dunton, the literary agency James B. Pinker and Son, and others. There are letters to Wise from Thomas Pugh Beddoes, Paul Lemperly, William Morris, de. V. Payen-Payne, J. B. Pinker and son, and J. A. Spoor, dating from 1919 to 1932.

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The letter to Eric S. Pinker came into the Berg Collection as part of the John D. Gordan bequest.

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

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.