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Creator
Paul, Elliot, 1891-1958
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Paul
Physical description
106 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
Access to materials
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, as well as legal documents.

Biographical/historical information

Elliot Paul was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and literary critic, and the co-founder of the journal "Transition," which he co-edited until the autumn of 1929.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, as well as legal documents. The manuscripts and typescripts include plays, notes, drafts of novels, articles, reviews, and drafts of stories. Also included is the typescript of his "The Last Time I saw Paris" containing the author's manuscript emendations and with a chart and 1-page typed explanatory statement by Paul. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1922 to 1938, to Louis C. Greene and Horace B. Liveright, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1922 to 1934, between various correspondents, including Louis C. Greene, Creighton J. Hill, Alfred A. Knopf, Horace B. Liveright, Robert Newton Linscott, and Camille Nesbit Paul. There are letters to Paul from Muriel Hannah, Alfred A. Knopf, Horace Liveright Inc., and others, dating from 1923 to 1928.

The Elliot Paul collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials was previously owned by Louis C. Greene.

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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