Research Catalog
Kenneth Burke collection of papers
- Title
- Kenneth Burke collection of papers, 1922-1983 bulk (1922-1973).
- Author
- Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.
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- Finding Aid
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 Burke | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Description
- 1,054 items.
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Biography (note)
- Kenneth Burke was an American writer of short stories, historical dramas, and criticism, as well as a poet, and translator.
- 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. The letters to Hildegarde and James Watson came with J. S. Watson's papers.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Berg Coll MSS Burke
- Author
- Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.
- Title
- Kenneth Burke collection of papers, 1922-1983 bulk (1922-1973).
- Summary
- This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence. The manuscripts and typescripts include short-stories, essays, poems, and reviews. The correspondence, dating from 1922 to 1983, includes letters from the author to Djuna Barnes, Muriel Rukeyser, Frances Steloff, Hildegarde and James Watson, Jr., and others. There are also letters to the author, dating from 1940 to 1966, from Djuna Barnes, Wallace Fowlie, Francis Golffing, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Stephen Spender, James Sibley Watson, and others.
- Biography
- Kenneth Burke was an American writer of short stories, historical dramas, and criticism, as well as a poet, and translator.
- Indexes
- Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Barnes, Djuna.Fowlie, Wallace, 1908-Golffing, Francis.Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980.Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995.Steloff, Frances, 1887-Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 1894-Watson, Hildegarde Lasell, -1976.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll MSS Burke