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Creator
Meyerstein, Edward Harry William, 1889-1952
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Meyerstein
Physical description
93 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 typescripts, a manuscript, correspondence, and an undated notebook.

Biographical/historical information

Edward Harry William Meyerstein was an English novelist, poet, literary critic, and translator.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts, a manuscript, correspondence by and about the author, and an undated notebook. The typescripts include poems, drafts of stories, and essays. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1924 to 1944, to R. N. Green-Armytage, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from [191--?] to [1956?], between various correspondents, including Roy Campbell, R. N. Green-Armytage, George William Russell, Rowland Watson, and others. There are letters to Meyerstein from H. E. Fiedler, John Masefield, George William Russell, and Dorothy Sayers, dating from 1920 to 1932.

The Edward Harry William Meyerstein collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

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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