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Creator
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Phillpotts
Physical description
193 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, a typescript, correspondence, and legal documents.

Biographical/historical information

Eden Phillpotts was an English novelist, playwright, poet, and author of short stories.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, a typescript, correspondence, and legal documents. The manuscripts and typescript include essays and a playbill. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1892 to 1939, to Thomas Burke, William Morris Colles, Sir F. C. Gould, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Humbert Wolfe, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, one dated 1898, from George P. Brett to W. M. Colles.

The Eden Phillpotts collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Henry W. and Albert A. Berg, W. T. H. Howe, Muriel Rukeyser, the American Play Company, and the literary agency James B. Pinker and Son.

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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