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Chester Kallman collection of papers

Title: Chester Kallman collection of papers, 1937-1973.
Author: Kallman, Chester, 1921-1975.
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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Mixed material	Permit needed	Berg Coll MSS Kallman	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

344 items.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Certificates.
Correspondence.
Notebooks.

Biography (note)

Chester Kallman was an American poet and librettist.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Provenance (note)

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. Some of the materials were formerly owned by Caroline Newton and William Meredith.

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Cataloged

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Kallman

OCLC

NYPW04-A26

Author

Kallman, Chester, 1921-1975.

Title

Chester Kallman collection of papers, 1937-1973.

Summary

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, notebooks, financial documents, certificates, and portraits. The manuscripts and typescripts include poems, essays, librettos, and translations. The correspondence, dating from 1939 to 1973, includes letters by the author to Alan Ansen, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Lincoln Kirstein, Nicolas Nabokov, Caroline Newton, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1942 to 1970, between various correspondents including David Protech. There are letters to Kallman from W. H. Auden, Lincoln Kirstein, William Meredith, William A. Rogers, Peter Salus, and others, dating from 1944 to 1973.

Biography

Chester Kallman was an American poet and librettist.

Indexes

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

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Added Author

Ansen, Alan.

Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.

Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986.

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996.

Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978.

Newton, Caroline, 1893-

Rogers, Willam A.

Salus, Peter H.

Newton, Caroline, 1893- Former owner NN-BGC

Meredith, William, 1919-2007. Former owner NN-BGC

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