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Creator
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Watts-Dunton
Physical description
354 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, correspondence, and financial documents.

Biographical/historical information

Theodore Watts-Dunton was an English poet, novelist, and literary critic.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, and financial documents. The manuscripts include miscellaneous autograph material, as well as an essay by Leonard R. Valpy. The corrspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1873 to 1912, to Sir Hall Caine, Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie, Ford Madox Ford, Grant Richards, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, T. Fisher Unwin, and others, as well as undated letters relating to the author from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Fanny Schott. There are letters to Watts-Dunton from Mathilde Blind, Lady Mary Ashburnham Gordon, Francis Hindes Groome, Thomas Gordon Hake, Benjamin Jowett, John Westland Marston, Richard Herne Shepherd, Frederic J. Shields, George Barnett Smith, Alice Swinburne, Isabel Swinburne, Lady Jane Henrietta Swinburne, John S. Verschoyle, and others, dating from 1871 to 1914.

The Theodore Watts-Dunton collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Sir Hall Caine and W. T. H. Howe. The essay by Valpy was previously owned by Watts-Dunton.

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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