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Descriptive Summary Rupert Brooke collection of papers, [1905]-[1937] bulk (1912-1929). Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915. Berg Coll MSS Brooke741 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 typescripts, correspondence from, to, and about the author, notebooks, diaries for 1907 through 1913, and a photographic portrait of the author. Subjects Personal Names Abercrombie, Lascelles, 1881-1938. Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965. Cornford, Frances Darwin, 1886-1960. Gide, Andre, 1869-1951. Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup), former owner. Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953. Masefield, John, 1878-1967. Olivier, Margaret (Cox), Lady, former owner. Shanks, Edward, 1892-1953. Strachey, James. Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932. Ward, Dudley. Wellesley, Eileen, Lady. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Subjects Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915. Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915 -- Portraits Document Types Correspondence DiariesNotebooks Administration Information Source

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

Custodial History

Former owners include Frances Cornford, W. T. H. Howe, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Margery Olivier, James Strachey, and Lady Eileen Wellesley.

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

Rupert Brooke was an English poet, playwright, and essayist.

Scope and Content Note

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, notebooks, diaries for 1907 through 1913, and a photographic portrait of the author. The manuscripts and typescripts include holographs of poems, and a typescript of a play. It contains works relating to the author in manuscript and typescript by Lascelles Abercrombie, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Edward Shanks, and Lytton Strachey, as well as an undated notebook of Frances Cornford and Sir Sydney Philip Perigal Waterlow's two-volume diary. Correspondence by the author dates from 1905 to 1915, to James Strachey, Lytton Strachey, Dudley Ward, Lady Eileen Wellesley, and others. It also contains letters relating to the author, from 1912 to 1937, between various correspondents including Lascelles Abercrombie, Andre; Gide, John Masefield, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Virginia Woolf and others.There are also letters to Brooke from Francis MacDonald Cornord, Gwen Darwin, Dickson Dodds, Margery Olivier, James Elroy Flecker, James Strachey, and Lytton Strachey, dating from 1905 through 1915.

Series Descriptions Manuscripts and Typescripts Dated Manuscripts Manuscript box Fafaia. Holograph poem 1913 Nov. ms. 1 p.

Signed with initials. With note in margin reading "bilge". Came with Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence.

Dated Manuscripts relating to Brooke Manuscript box Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson. To E[dward] M[arsh]. Holograph poem 1915 June 10 ms. 1 p.

Signed with initials. With later typewritten draft, headed "(In memory of R[upert] B[rooke])," 1 p.

Manuscript box Masefield, John. Skyros. Holograph poem. I a letter, belonging into the run of letters to Sir Edward Howard Marsh, catalogued as a unit, written as a tribute to Rupert Brooke. 1915 Oct. 6 ms. 1 p.

Signed

Undated Manuscripts Manuscript box 1914: [IV] The dead; [V. The soldier] The recruit. Two holograph poems from a sequence of five sonnets n.d. ms. 2 p.

Signed. With one miscellaneous envelope. First published in New numbers. Dec., 1914. Came with the Brooke-Wellesley correspondence.

Manuscript box Dance, The. Holograph poem. Written in March, 1915 n.d. ms. 1 p.

Signed with initials. Came with Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence.

Manuscript box Heaven. Holograph poem n.d. ms. 1 p.

Signed. Came with Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence

Manuscript box Lines written on seeing two flies, etc. Holograph poem n.d. ms. 1 p.

Came with Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence

Manuscript box [Old vicarage, Granchester, The] Fragments from a poem to be entitled "The sentimental exile." Manuscript copy of the poem in the hand of Sir Edward Howard Marsh. On Admirality notepaper n.d. ms. 1 item Manuscript box. In his: 33 ALS, 1 postcard to Margery Olivier. 1908-1913. On verso of letter of [Sept. (?), 1909] Folder 18 Sensible paralytic, The. Holograph poem n.d. ms. 1 p. Manuscript box [Sonnet]. "Oh, Death will find me, long before I tire." Holograph. On National Liberal Club notepaper n.d. ms. 1 p.

Signed. Enclosed in his: 33 ALS, 1 postcard to Margery Olivier. 1908-1913. Letter of [Spring, 1909] Folder 8. Published in his Poems, 1911.

Manuscript box Sonnet suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. Holograph poem n.d. ms. 1 p.

Signed. Came with Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence.

Manuscript box "The way that lovers use is this." Holograph n.d. ms. 1 p.

Undated Manuscripts relating to Brooke Manuscript box Abercrombie, Lascelles. R[upert] B[rooke]. Manuscript copy of poem in the hand of Sir Edward Howard Marsh n.d. ms. 1 p.

Came with Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence

Manuscript box Beerbohm, Max. Ballade tragique a double refrain. Manuscript copy in Rupert Brooke's hand n.d. ms. 1 p.

Came with Brooke's correspondence with Margery Olivier

Manuscript box (Brooke) Churchill, Sir Winston. "Rupert Brooke is dead." Holograph obituary. Written on Admirality notepaper n.d. ms. 4 p.

Signed. Published in The Times. Came with Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence.

Manuscript box Davies, William Henry. Rupert Brooke, died of sunstroke, April 23rd, 1915. Holograph poem n.d. ms. 1 p.

Came with Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence

Marsh, Sir Edward Howard. Memoir of Rupert Brooke. Holograph n.d. ms. 132 p.

Signed. With the Introduction in the hand of Rupert Brooke's mother. Published (with introduction) in the 1918 edition of his Collected poems.

Manuscript box Shanks, Edward. The dead poet [Rupert Brooke] Holograph poem n.d. ms. 1 p.

Sent to Sir Edward Howard Marsh, who endorsed it in the poet's name and pseudonym, Richard Buxton

Manuscript box Strachey, Lytton. Has the Rajah read Henry James? Holograph memorandum. Relates to Rupert Brooke. n.d. ms. 1 item

With envelope labelled "The Dossier," dated by James Strachey Aug. 2-, 1905. Published in Christopher Hassall's Rupert Brooke, N.Y.: Harcourt, 1964, p. 70-71. Came with Brooke's correspondence with James Strachey.

Diaries Waterlow, Sir Sydney Philip Perigal. Holograph diary. Records conversations with Henry James, G. E. Moore, H. G. Wells and others. Mentions Vanessa Bell, Rupert Brooke, George Gissing, Virginia Woolf and others 1907 Apr. - 1912 Apr. diaries 1 v.

With list of addresses at back

Waterlow, Sir Sydney Philip Perigal. Holograph diary. Records conversations with Henry James, G. E. Moore, H. G. Wells and others. Mentions Vanessa Bell, Rupert Brooke, George Gissing, Virginia Woolf and others 1912 Apr. - 1913 May diaries 1 v. Notebooks Notebook. Holograph. Contains verse fragments, draft of a sonnet, notes and sketches. Bound in black wrappers [1911 Jan. - 1911 Apr.] notebooks 1 v. Manuscript box (Brooke) Cornford, Frances (Darwin). [Memoir] Holograph notebook (incomplete). Relates to Rupert Brooke n.d. notebooks 1 v.

Came with her correspondence to Rupert Brooke

Typescripts Manuscript box. In his: 98 ALS, 73 postcards, 10 ANS, 25 telegrams, etc. to James Strachey [1905-1914]. Folder 35. Enclosed in letter postmarked May (?) 1912 Ballade; with double refrain. Typescript of poem. "To J. B. S." at head of poem n.d. typescripts 1 p. Manuscript box Lithuania. Typescript (carbon) of play with the author's ms. corrections n.d. typescripts (emended) 2 items

Signed. Published Chicago, 1915. Came with his correspondence with Margery Olivier

Typescripts related to Brooke Manuscript box Drinkwater, John. R[upert] B[rooke] (who died on April 23rd, 1916 [sic]) Typewritten poem 1918 Apr. typescripts 1 p.

Signed. Sent to Sir Edward Howard Marsh in tribute to Rupert Brooke

Manuscript box Turner, Walter James. Hommage to Rupert Brooke. Typescript of sonnet sequence n.d. typescripts 2 p.

Enclosed in his: ANS to Sir John Collings Squire [n.d.]

Correspondence Outgoing Manuscript box Copy of letter in the hand of Helle Flecker to James Elroy Flecker 1912 Apr. corr. Out 1 item

Sent to Sir Edward Howard Marsh on Sept. 13, 1928

Manuscript box Olivier, Margery. 33 ALS, 1 postcard to [1908] - 1913 corr. Out 34 items

Letter of [Spring, 1909] (folder 8) encloses his: [Sonnet] "Oh, Death will find me, long before I tire." Holograph, undated. On verso of letter of [Sept. (?), 1909] (folder 18) his: The sensible paralytic. Holograph poem, undated. 1 p.

Manuscript box. In his: 18 ALS, 4 ANS, 11 postcards, 4 telegrams to Dudley Ward. July 1907-Oct./Nov. 1914. Folder 8 Planitz, Clothilde von der. ALS to. Fragment, paginated p. 2 [n.d.] corr. Out 1 p. Manuscript box Strachey, James. 98 ALS, 73 postcards, 10 ANS, 25 telegrams, 5 letters to [1905] July 7 - [1914 July?] corr. Out 211 items in 42 folders

One AL signed "Ka" [Cox] by Brooke. With 10 miscellaneous pieces. In folder 35 his: Ballade; with double refrain. Typescript of poem, undated. 1 p. Enclosed in letter postmarked May(?) 1912

Manuscript box Strachey, Lytton. 7 ALS, 5 postcards, 1 telegram to [1909 Sept. 27] - [1911] Dec. [19?] corr. Out 13 items in 3 folders

One letter signed with a caricature. Came with Brooke's corresondence with James Strachey

Manuscript box Ward, Dudley. 18 ALS, 4 ANS, 11 postcards, 4 telegrams to 1907 July - 1914 Nov. corr. Out 37 items in 8 folders

Includes his: ALS to Clothilde von der Planitz. [n.d.] 1 p. Folder 8

Manuscript box (Brooke) Ward, Dudley. ANS to [n.d.] corr. Out 1 p.

With envelope, noted "Not to be opened."; with: Ward, Dudley. 3 ALS to Lady Eileen Wellesley. April 24, April 27 and May 20, 1915. In letter of April 27

Manuscript box Wellesley, Lady Eileen. 38 ALS to [1914 July] - [1915 Apr. 9] corr. Out 38 items in 8 folders

With five miscellaneous envelopes

Incoming Manuscript box (Brooke) Cornford, Frances (Darwin). 64 ALS, 21 postcards to Brooke 1908 May 13 - 1914 Dec. 24 corr. In 85 items in 14 folders Manuscript box (Brooke) Cornord, Francis MacDonald. 6 ALS to Brooke [1908] May 15 - [1913] corr. In 6 items in 1 folder Manuscript box (Brooke) Darwin, Gwen. ALS to Brooke [n.d.] corr. In 1 leaf

Accompanied by Cornford, Frances (Darwin). ALS to Brooke

Manuscript box (Brooke) Dodds, Dickson. ALS to Brooke. Relates to The Soldier and sent to the poet through Sir Edward Howard Marsh by Wilfrid Gibson 1915 Apr. 20 corr. In 1 p.

With clipping containing correcged sonnet and speech by William Ralph Inge

Manuscript box Flecker, James Elroy. Postcard to Rupert Brooke. 1908 Nov. 11 corr. In 1 item

Came with Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence

Manusscript box (Brooke, R.) Olivier, Margery. 25 ALS (1 incomplete), 2 postcards to Brooke 1908 July 16 - 1914 July 25 corr. In 27 items in 6 folders

Accompanied by: Cambridge University. Fabian Society. Financial statement for the year 1908-1909. Broadside, measuring 12 x 23 cm. Signed M. Olivier, Hon. Treasurer

Manuscript box Strachey, James. 158 ALS, 5 postcards, 3 ANS, 4 telegrams, 7 letters to Brooke. One AL is incomplete 1905 July 4 - [1914] [after June 5] corr. In 177 items in 35 folders

In folder 5 his: ANS to Lytton Strachey, [n.d.]. 1 p.; In folder 20 his: L'indecise. Pen-and-ink self-caricature[?] on postcard, undated. 1 p. Letters removed from albums in which they were kept by James Strachey

Manuscript box Strachey, Lytton. 2 ALS to Brooke 1910 Mar. 31; 1910 Apr. 1 corr. In 2 items

Came with Brooke's correspondence with James Strachey

Related Correspondence Manuscript box (Woolf) Arnold-Foster, Katherine (Cox). 3 ALS to Virginia Woolf. Mention Rupert Brooke 1912 Jan. 26 - 1913 Feb. 13 corr. About 3 items Manuscript box (Brooke) Brooke, Mary Ruth (Cotterill). 2 ALS to Lady Eileen Wellesley. Relates to Rupert Brooke 1929 July 31; 1929 Aug. 8 corr. About 2 items

With envelope

Manuscript box (Brooke) Cooper, Sir Alfred Duff. ALS to Sir Edward Howard Marsh 1915 Apr. 26 corr. About 1 p.

Contains his [Tribute to the memory of Rupert Brooke]. Holograph poem, on verso

Manuscript box Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson. ALS to Elkin Mathews. Relates to Rupert Brooke 1915 Aug. 8 corr. About 1 p. Manuscript box (Marsh) Gide, Andre. ALS to Sir Edward Howard Marsh. Relates to French translation of Rupert Brooke's last sonnets. 1915 July 15 corr. About 1 p.

Together with another letter, preceding it and addressed to an unknown correspondent, enquiring about Brooke's literary executor. 1 p.

Manuscript box Housman, Laurence. ALS to Lascelles Abercrombie. Relates to Rupert Brooke 1930 May 25 corr. About 1 p. Manuscript box Hulme, Thomas Ernest. 3 ALS, 1 TLS, 2 postcards to Sir Edward Howard Marsh. Three letters relate to Sir Jacob Epstein, and one letter relates to Rupert Brooke 1912 - [ca. 1914-17] corr. About 6 items Manuscript box (Brooke) Inge, William Ralph. ALS to Sir Edward Howard Marsh. Relates to the death of Rupert Brooke [1915] Apr. 28 corr. About 1 item Manuscript box Marsh, Sir Edward Howard. ALS to Maud Hume. Relates to Rupert Brooke 1916 Dec. 8 corr. About 1 item

Removed from: Georgian poetry, 1911-1912. Another copy, inscribed by Rupert Brooke

Manuscript box Masefield, John. ALS to Violet (Asquith) Bonham-Carter. Relates to the death of Rupert Brooke. Arthur Asquith, Lady Bonham-Carter's brother, was with Rupert Brooke when he died 1915 Apr. 27 corr. About 1 item

Came with Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence

Manuscript box Masefield, John. ALS to Mary Ruth Cotterill Brooke. Relates to Rupert Brooke 1915 July 26 corr. About 1 p. Manuscript box Masefield, John. 52 ALS to Sir Edward Howard Marsh. Letters of April 27, 1915; Sept. 11 and Oct. 14, 1915 relate to Rupert Brooke 1912 - [1937] corr. About 52 items in 12 folders

With 6 ALS from Constance Masefield

Manuscript box (Brooke) Sidgwick & Jackson, ltd. TLS to Sir Edward Howard Marsh. Relates to Rupert Brooke royalties. Enclosures wanting 1933 July 1 corr. About 1 p. Manuscript box (Marsh) Thomas, Havard. ALS to Sir Edward Howard Marsh. Relates to Rupert Brooke memorial in Rugby chapel 1918 July 29 corr. About 2 p. Manuscript box (Brooke) Ward, Dudley. 3 ALS to Lady Eileen Wellesley. Relates to Rupert Brooke 1915 Apr. 24 - 1915 May 20 corr. About 3 items

With envelopes. Letter of April 24 encloses: Brooke, Rupert. ANS to Dudley Ward. [n.d.] 1 p. Came with the Brooke-Wellesley correspondence

Manuscript box (Marsh) Whelen, Frederick. TLS to Mrs. Alan Parsons. Relates to Rupert Brooke 1915 Dec. 6 corr. About 1 p.

Came with Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence

Portraits Manuscript box Photograph of Rupert Brooke as Comus n.d. portraits 1 item Cased manuscript (oversize) Group photograph showing Rupert Brooke as Portia in Hillbrow school production of The Merchant of Venice [n.d.] portraits 1 item