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 Machine readable finding aid created 2006. Description is in English Berg Coll MSS Eliot, GGuide to the George Eliot collection of papers, 1841-1899 bulk (1841-1879). 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 Staff 2006 Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider Processed and encoded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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 Descriptive Summary George Eliot collection of papers, 1841-1899 bulk (1841-1879). Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Berg Coll MSS Eliot, G235 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 a manuscript, correspondence, a diary for 1879, notebooks, and financial documents. Subjects Personal Names Allingham, William, 1824-1889. Belloc, Bessie Rayner, 1829-1925. Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, 1827-1891. Bracebridge, Selina. Chapman, John, 1822-1894. Fiske, John, 1842-1901. Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893. Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876. O'Donaghue, D. J. Owen, Richard, 1804-1892. Smith, George, 1824-1901. Stoughton, Mary Fiske Bound Green. Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909. Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863. Fremantle, Anne Jackson, 1909- donor. Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup), former owner. Whitney, John Hay., former owner. Williams, Blanche Colton, 1879-1944, former owner. Young, Owen D., 1874- former owner. Subjects Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Document Types Correspondence DiariesNotebooks Titles Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878. Problems of life and mind. Administration Information Source

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

Custodial History

The bulk of the materials is from W. T. H. Howe, Owen D. Young, and Blanche Colton Williams. The notebook containing Lewes's notes for "Problems of Life and Mind" contains a presentation note signed "Kate, Sara, & Tony" on a card of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney. The typed copy of the letter to George Smith is a gift of Anne Fremantle, who received it from Elizabeth Smith Thompson.

 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

George Eliot was a British novelist, poet and essayist, born Mary Ann Evans on November 22, 1819. She first used the pseudonym "George Eliot" for the second installment of "Amos Barton" in Blackwood's Magazine, in 1858.

 Scope and Content Note

This is a synthetic collection consisting of a manuscript, correspondence by and about the author, a diary for 1879, notebooks, and financial documents. The collection includes a holograph diary for 1879; a notebook labeled "Miscellanies" on spine and "Quotations, Latin, English & Greek - and Hebrew Matters" on front cover; and a holograph notebook of notes for volume IV of George Henry Lewes's "Problems of life and mind." It also includes Lewes's literary receipt book with entries in his hand for April, 1841-1878 followed by a summary of his income, 1855-1878 in George Eliot's hand, and Lewes's record of investments and dividends at end. Included are two receipts acknowledging payment of royalties from Harper's for the author's work. The collection's single manuscript is Algernon Charles Swinburne's manuscript draft on the deaths of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot. The correspondence, dating from 1841 to 1879, includes letters from the author to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, John Chapman, Sir Richard Owen, Bessie Parkes, Frances Trollope and others, as well as a copy of a typed letter to George Smith. Also included are letters relating to the author, dating from 1859 to 1880, between various correspondents including William Allingham, D. J. O'Donaghue, John Fiske, Mary Fisk Green Stoughton, Benjamin Jowett, Harriet Martineau, and others. There are letters to Eliot from C. H. Bray, Emily Ellsworth Ford, Sara Hennell, Calvin Ellis Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others, dating from [1859?] to 1880.

 Series Descriptions/Container List Manuscripts Diaries Cased Diary for 1879. Holograph 1879 diaries 1 v.

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Manuscripts Manuscript box Swinburne, Algernon Charles. [On the deaths of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot]. Holograph draft n.d. ms. 1 item

On verso of next to last leaf of his: Athens. An ode. Holograph draft. B.

Notebooks Cased Notebook with label "Miscellanies" on spine and "Quotations, Latin, English & Greek - and Hebrew matters" on front cover. Holograph. Probably used for Daniel Deronda. 20 cm. 1868 notebooks 305 p.

Y.

Cased Notes for Vol. IV of [George Henry Lewes's]. Problems of life and mind. Holograph notebook. Title from label on front cover. n.d. notebooks 50 p.

With: Presentation note signed "Kate, Sara, & Tony" on card of Mr. And Mrs. John Hay Whitney, inserted. Whitney, J. H.

Correspondence Outgoing Correspondence Manuscript box Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith. 138 ALS to. Contains: Lewes, G. H. ALS to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Holly lodge [Smith Fields, Wandsworth] March 6, 1860. 2 l. [1853] - 1880 Aug. 18 corr. out 26 folders Manuscript box Bodichon (?), Barbara Leigh Smith. ALS to [ca. 1876?] corr. out 1 p. Manuscript box [Call?], [Rufa Brabant]. ALS to 1866 June 5 corr. out 1 item

Signed "M. E. Lewes"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Call, Mrs. [Rufa Brabant]. ALS to [1870] corr. out 1 item

Signed "M. E. Lewes"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Chapman, [John]. ALS to [1851] Apr. 4 corr. out 3 p.

Signed "Marian Evans"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box [Chapman], [John]. ALS to [1851] June 15 corr. out 1 item

Signed "Marian Evans"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box [Chapman], [John]. ALS to [1853 Dec.?] corr. out 5 p.

Signed "Marian Evans"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box [Chapman], [John]. ALS to 1855 June 25 corr. out 1 item

Signed "Marian Evans"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box [Chapman], [John]. ALS to [1855] June 27 corr. out 1 item

Signed "Marian E."; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Crompton, Harry. ALS to [1867?] Oct. 17 corr. out 1 p.

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Gilchrist, Mrs. Alexander. ALS to [1871] May 9 corr. out 1 item

Signed "M. E. Lewes"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Harrison, [Frederic]. ALS to 1879 Dec. 3 corr. out 1 p.

Signed "M. E. Lewes"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Hennell, Sara. ALS to 1867 Sept. 2 corr. out 1 item Inserted in: Eliot, George. Scenes of clerical life. Edinburgh and London, 1858. V. 1, copy 2 [Jackson], Martha [H.]. ALS to 1841 May 21 corr. out 1 item

Signed "Clematis"

Manuscript box Maurice, the Rev. F. D. ALS to [1868] Aug. 30 corr. out 1 item

Signed "M. E. Lewes"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Inserted in: Eliot, G. The mill on the floss. Edinburgh and London, 1860. Copy 1, v. 1 Owen [Sir Richard Owen], Prof. ALS to 1860 Jan. 22 corr. out 1 item Manuscript box Parkes, Bessie. 7 ALS to. 1 postmarked June 23, 1852; 4 dated May 15 [1853], Dec. 27 [1853], July 19, 1857, and Dec. 25 [n.y.]; 2 undated 1852 June 23 - 1857 July 19 corr. out 7 items

H.

Manuscript box Senior, Mrs. ALS to 1866 Dec. 11 corr. out 1 item

Signed "M. E. Lewes"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Senior, Mrs. ALS to 1868 Mar. 14 corr. out 1 item

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Inserted in her: Silas Marner. Edinburgh and London, 1861. Copy 1 Sibree, John. ALS to [1848 Feb. 11] corr. out 1 item Manuscript box Smith, George. TL (copy) to. Original in the Princeton University Library 1866 Dec. 23 corr. out 2 p.

Published in The George Eliot letters, ed. Gordon S. Haight. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955. Vol. 4, p. 324-325; Gift of Anne Fremantle, who received it from Elizabeth Smith Thompson

Manuscript box Trollope, Frances. ALS to 1879 Dec. 19 corr. out 1 item

H.

Inserted in her: The legend of Jubal. Edinburgh and London, 1874. Copy 3 Trollope, Mrs. [Thomas Adolphus]. ALS to 1864 May 15 corr. out 1 item Manuscript box Tru[e]bner, Nikolaus. ALS to 1879 June 13 corr. out 2 p.

H.

Incoming Correspondence Manuscript box Bancroft, George. ALS to Mrs. Lewes [George Eliot] [1874, early July] in. corr. 3 p.

Encloses ALS from Edward L. Burlingame to George Bancroft, requesting biographical data about George Eliot, New York, June 27, 1874. 2 leaves. Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Belloc, Bessie W. ALS to Marian [George Eliot] 1876 Dec. 31 in. corr. 3 p.

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Betham-Edwards, Matilda Barbara. AL to Eliot [n.y.] Apr. 30 in. corr. 2 leaves

Signed M. B. Edwards. Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Bray, Caroline Hennell. AL to Marian [George Eliot] [1859?] in. corr. 2 leaves

Signed with initials. Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Bray, C. H. AL to Marian [George Eliot] [1860?] July 8 in. corr. 2 leaves

Signed "Cara"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Bray, C. H. AL to Marian [George Eliot] [1869?] in. corr. 2 leaves

Signed "Cara"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Bray, C. H. AL to Marian [George Eliot] [1876?] Sept. 9 in. corr. 4 leaves

Signed "Cara"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Bray, C. H. AL to Marian [George Eliot] 1880 May 10 in. corr. 1 leaf

Signed "Cara"; Accompanied by ANS from her sister, Sara Hennell, to Pollian [George Eliot], May 14, 1880. 1 p.; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Bray, C. H. AL to Marian [George Eliot] [1880?] June 17 in. corr. 3 p.

Signed "Cara"; Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Burne-Jones, Georgiana (Macdonald), Lady. ALS to Mrs. Lewes [George Eliot] 1868 Sept. 19 in. corr. 2 leaves

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Collection of ten letters from various correspondents to George Eliot. One letter is undated 1874 May 3 - 1877 June 13 in. corr. 10 items

List of correspondents (1 p.) from the Blanche Colton Williams material, laid in. Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Duhring, Julia. ALS to Eliot 1876 June 20 in. corr. 3 p.

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Ford, Emily Ellsworth (Fowler). 2 ALS to Eliot [1874] March 24; 1874 July 23 in. corr. 3 p. each

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Gurney, Edmund. ALS to Eliot. Dated "Monday" n.d. in. corr. 1 item

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Harrison, Frederic. ALS to Eliot [1869] June 5 in. corr. 2 leaves

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Hennell, Sara. ALS to Pollian [George Eliot] 1868 Nov. 22 in. corr. 2 leaves

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Hennell, Sara. ALS to Pollian [George Eliot] 1872 Nov. 20; 1872 Nov. 21 in. corr. 4 leaves

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Howland, Marie. ALS to Eliot 1874 May 30 in. corr. 3 p. Manuscript box (Eliot) Johnston, William Preston. ALS to Mrs. Lewes [George Eliot] 1878 Aug. 9 in. corr. 1 leaf

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Jowett, Benjamin. ALS to Mrs. Cross [George Eliot] 1880 May 21 in. corr. 2 leaves

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Meeker, N. C. ALS to Mrs. Lewes [George Eliot] 1876 June 23 in. corr. 3 p.

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Norton, Susan. ALS to Mrs. Lewes [George Eliot] [1869] June 17 in. corr. 2 leaves

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Ritchie, Anne Isabella Thackeray, Lady. ALS to Mrs. Lewes [George Eliot] [n.y.] Oct. 17 in. corr. 2 leaves

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Rollins, Alice (Wellington). ALS to Mrs. George H. Lewes [George Eliot] 1878 July 6 in. corr. 2 p.

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Sewall, John S. ALS to Mrs. Lewes [George Eliot] 1874 May 15 in. corr. 2 leaves

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot) Shedden-Ralston, W. R. AL to Mrs. Cross [George Eliot] 1880 June 2 in. corr. 1 leaf

Signed W. R. S. Ralston. Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Smith, George. ALS to Eliot 1880 Sept. 23 in. corr. 1 leaf

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Cased Stowe, Calvin Ellis. ALS to Eliot 1872 July 31 in. corr. 3 leaves

H.

Manuscript box Stowe, Calvin Ellis. ALS to Eliot 1874 Aug. 20 in. corr. 1 leaf

H.

Cased Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher. 14 ALS to Eliot 1869 Apr. 15 - [n.y.] Apr. 23 in. corr. 14 items Manuscript box Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich. ALS to Eliot 1874 Feb. 25 in. corr. 1 leaf

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich. ALS to Eliot 1880 May 8 in. corr. 1 p.

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. ALS to Mrs. Lewes [George Eliot] 1875 July 27 in. corr. 2 leaves

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Related Correspondence Manuscript box Allingham, William. ALS to D. J. O'Donaghue [after 1879] related corr. 3 p.

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Fiske, John. ALS to his mother [Mary Fisk Green Stoughton]. Mentions George Eliot 1873 Dec. 3 related corr. 1 item

B.

Manuscript box (Eliot) Jowett, Benjamin. ALS to Mrs. Cross [probably John Cross's mother] 1876 Feb. 16 related corr. 2 p.

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box Martineau, Harriet. ALS to Mrs. Bracebridge. Relates to George Eliot 1859 Oct. 25 related corr. 1 item

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Financial Documents Cased Lewes, G. H. [Literary receipt book]. Entries in Lewes' hand, April, 1841-1878. 34 p. Followed by summary of his income, 1855-1878 in George Eliot's hand, 3 p. Lewes' record of investments, dividends, 9 p. at end 1841 - 1878 financial docs. 1 v.

Williams, Blanche Colton. Berg

Manuscript box (Eliot, G.) Lewes, Gertrude. Receipts (2), acknowledging payment of royalties from Harper's for George Eliot's works. Gertrude Lewes is Charles Lewes' wife 1896 Mar. 4, 1899 Nov. 10 financial docs. 2 items