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Edith OEnone Somerville collection of papers
- Title
- Edith OEnone Somerville collection of papers, 1886-1938.
- Author
- Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858-1949.
- Supplementary Content
- 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 Somerville | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 308 items.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Biography (note)
- Edith OEnone Somerville was an Irish short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and illustrator.
- 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. Previous owners include Elizabeth Hudson and Violet Martin.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Berg Coll MSS Somerville
- Author
- Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858-1949.
- Title
- Edith OEnone Somerville collection of papers, 1886-1938.
- Summary
- This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include stories, essays, portions and drafts of novels, and reviews by the author, as well as poems and novel plots by her cousin and collaborator Violet Florence Martin (a.k.a. Martin Ross). The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1886 to 1938, to Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory, Violet Martin, Ethel Mary Smyth, the literary agency James B. Pinker and Son, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1901 to 1951, between various correspondents, including Geraldine Cummins, Elizabeth Hudson, Violet Martin, Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett, Sir Owen Seaman, James B. Pinker and Son, and others. There are letters to Somerville from Violet Florence Martin dating from 1886 to 1912.
- Biography
- Edith OEnone Somerville was an Irish short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and illustrator.
- Indexes
- Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.
- Local Note
- Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Cummins, Geraldine Dorothy, 1890-Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932.Hudson, Elizabeth.Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir, 1854-1932.Ross, Martin, 1862-1915.Seaman, Owen, Sir, 1861-1936.Smyth, Ethel, 1858-1944.Hudson, Elizabeth. Former ownerRoss, Martin, 1862-1915. Former ownerJames B. Pinker and Son.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll MSS Somerville