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Creator
Young, Andrew, 1885-1971
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Young
Physical description
424 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, correspondence, and portrait photographs.

Biographical/historical information

Andrew Young was a Scottish poet, cleric, and botanist.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, and portrait photographs. The manuscripts and typescripts consist of radio scripts, poems, television broadcasts, and reviews by the author, as well as a poem and biographical material relating to the author by Edmund Charles Blunden, Leonard Clark, and Katharine Garvin. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1922 to [1970], to Leonard Clark, Robert Andrew Clark, Geoffrey Grigson, Christopher Hassall, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, and Samuel Menashe, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1946 to 1969, between various correspondents including Leonard Clark, Bonamy Dobree, Edwin Muir, Leslie Norris, William Plomer, Stephen Spender, and others. There are letters to Young from John Arlott, Rupert Hart-Davis, John Bagguley, and Cecil Woolf, dating from 1959 to 1970.

The Andrew Young collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Leonard Clark and Robert Andrew Clark.

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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