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Creator
Warner, Rex, 1905-1986
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Warner, R
Physical description
22 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, and undated notebooks.

Biographical/historical information

Rex Warner was an English novelist, poet, essayist, translator, and literary critic.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, and undated notebooks. The manuscripts and typescripts comprise poems, drafts of novels and filmscripts, essays, reviews, and translations. The correspondence comprises a [1945?] letter from the author to William Sansom, as well as letters, dated 1966, to and from the author and Cecil Woolf. There is letter to Warner from John Bagguley and Cecil Woolf, as well as a letter from George Seferis, each dating from 1967.

The Rex Warner collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials is from benefit auction for P.E.N. International Writers' Fund.

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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