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Machine readable finding aid created 2006. Description is in English Berg Coll MSS Arnold Guide to the Matthew Arnold collection of papers,1857-1888 The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature The New York Public LibraryNew York, New York The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. New York Public Library. Room 320. Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018-2788 (212) 930-0802 brgref@nypl.org http://nypl.org/research/chss/spe/brg/berg.html Processed by: Staff Date Completed: 2006 Encoded By: Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider Processed and encoded through a gift from Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

Descriptive Summary Matthew Arnold collection of papers, 1857-1888 Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888. Berg Coll MSS Arnold 15 items The New York Public Library. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

New York, New York

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence to and from the author. Subjects Personal Names Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894. Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928. Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965. MacNeice, Louis, 1907-1963. O'Connor, William Douglas, 1832-1889. Ouida, 1839-1908. Sprigg, Stanhope William. Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup), former owner. Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954, former owner. Subjects Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888. Document Types Correspondence Administration Information Source

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

Custodial History

Previous owners include W. T. H. Howe and Bliss Perry.

Access

Collection is restricted to qualified scholars and researchers through the Office of Special Collections, Room 316

Restrictions on Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Biography

Matthew Arnold was an English literary critic, poet, and essayist.

Scope and Content Note

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence by the author. The manuscripts include poems, essays, and notes about the author by Louise De la Ramee, Randall Jarrell, and Louis MacNeice. The correspondence, dating from 1857 to 1888, includes letters from the author to John Duke Coleridge, Edmund Gosse, William D. O'Connor, Stanhope Sprigg, and others, as well a letter from William Douglas O'Connor to the author relating to Walt Whitman.

Series Descriptions Correspondence Incoming Manuscript box O'Connor, William Douglas. Holograph copy of his letter to Arnold. Relates to Walt Whitman 1866 Oct. 14 corr. In 1 item

Bliss Perry, Howe

Outgoing Inserted in his: Literature and dogma. London, 1876 Bird, Rev. Frederic M. ALS 1878 Mar. 18 corr. Out 1 item

Manuscript box Bishop, George Riker [?]. ALS 1884 Apr. 30 corr. Out 1 item Manuscript box [Buxton?], Sydney. ALS [n.y.] Aug. 23 corr. Out 1 item Manuscript box Coleridge, John Duke. 3 ALS. One undated 1884 Oct. 4; [n.y.] Mar. 23 corr. Out 3 items Inserted in: Arnold, Matthew. Alaric at Rome. Rugby, 1840. Copy 1 Gosse, Edmund William. ALS 1888 Feb. 9 corr. Out 1 p. Manuscript box Macmillan, Alexander. ALS. Mentions Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's schooldays 1857 Oct. 12 corr. Out 1 p. Manuscript box O'Connor, W[illiam] D. ALS. Relates to Walt Whitman 1866 Sept. 16 corr. Out 1 item

Bliss Perry, Howe

Manuscript box Sprigg, Stanhope. ALS 1871 June 14 corr. Out 1 item Manuscript box [--?], AL 1866 Mar. 23 corr. Out 3 p.

Signature cut away

Manuscripts Manuscript box De la Ramee, Louise. Mathew Arnold [sic] April 1888. Holograph poem n.d. ms. 4 p.

Signed with pseud. Ouida

Manuscript box Jarrell, Randall. [Notes on poems by William Shakespeare, John Keats and Matthew Arnold] Holograph. Several pages mutilated n.d. ms. 20 p. Manuscript box MacNeice, Louis. Arnold and Pater. Holograph lecture notes with the author's signed ms. note n.d. ms. 9 p.