]> BRGJENNI Guide to the Elizabeth Jennings collection of papers,[1961]-1967 Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Machine readable finding aid created 2006. Description is in English Berg Coll MSS JenningsGuide to the Elizabeth Jennings collection of papers,[1961]-1967 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 Elizabeth Jennings collection of papers, [1961]-1967 Jennings, Elizabeth, 1926- Berg Coll MSS Jennings553 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, correspondence, and an undated notebook. Subjects Personal Names Clark, Leonard. Tiller, Terence, 1916- Document Types Correspondence. Notebooks. Administration Information Source

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

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

Elizabeth Jennings was an English poet, essayist, literary critic, and writer of children's literature.

Scope and Content Note

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, and an undated notebook. The manuscripts consist of poems, translations of poems, and an essay. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from [1961] to 1967, to Leonard Clark, Terence Tiller, and others.

Contents Manuscripts Manuscript box Dream of sickness, A. Holograph n.d. ms. 2 p.

Signed. With: Time out of mind. Prologue. Holograph, undated. 6 p.

Manuscript box Hysteria; Painters; Aunt Violet. Holograph (2) and typescript (1) poems, with the author's ms. corrections n.d. ms. (emended) 1 p. each

Came with her correspondence with Terence Tiller

Manuscript box [Mind has mountains, The] 19 holograph poems. 3 dated 1964 Sept. 27 - 1965 Jan. 8 ms. 15 p.; 13 p.

A few signed later

Manuscript box [Poems] 513 holograph poems. Kept in their original groups of 253, 96, 38 and 26 poems. Some dated 1963 1963 ms. 4 folders

Some signed later. With detailed listing and page count laid into individual folders

Manuscript box [Recoveries] 4 holograph poems n.d. ms. 4 leaves

Two signed later

Manuscript box Secret brother and other poems, The. 24 holograph poems with the Haiku alphabet. Alphabet dated Dec. 21, 1965 1965 Dec. 21 ms. 34 p.

Signed. With 4 envelopes for the alphabet

Manuscript box [Sense of the world, A]. The virgin at noon by Paul Claudel, translated by the poet n.d. ms. 3 p.

Signed later

Manuscript box [Song for a birth or a death] Twenty holograph poems. Some poems in more than one version n.d. ms. 32 p.

Signed later

Manuscript box Time out of mind. Prologue. Holograph n.d. ms. 6 p.

With her: A dream of sickness. Holograph

Notebooks Manuscript box T. S. Eliot; Blackstone on Keats, and further essays and 7 holograph poems. Holograph notebook n.d. notebooks 55 p.

Three holograph pages of notes inserted

Correspondence Manuscript box Clark, Leonard. ANS, 4 postcards to [1961 Nov. 17] - [1964] Nov. 24 corr. 5 letters Manuscript box Tiller, Terence. 2 ALS to [n.y.] Feb. 24; [n.y.] Dec. 22 corr. 1 p.; 1 leaf Manuscript box (Vietnam) Woolf, Cecil and John Bagguley, eds. Authors take sides on Vietnam. Correspondence with Elizabeth Jennings 1967 corr. 1 folder