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Creator
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Roosevelt, T
Physical description
29 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, and correspondence.

Biographical/historical information

Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth president of the United States, the first American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, and a writer of travel literature, biographies, historiographies, essays, and literary criticism.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence. The manuscripts and typescripts include essays by Roosevelt and by Samuel Langhorne Clemens about Roosevelt. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1903 to 1918, to Padraic Colum, Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory, and W. T. H. Howe, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1903 to [1919], between various correspondents, including William F. Bailey, Francis Warrington Dawson, Lady Gregory, Percival Pollard, John Rhys, and Edith Kermit Roosevelt. There are letters to Roosevelt from Samuel Langhorne Clemens and George William Curtis, dating from 1871 to [1902].

The Theodore Roosevelt collection of papers are arranged in two series:

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.

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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