George Gissing collection of papers

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Description: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, diaries kept from 1879 to 1913, a commonplace book, financial and legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works.
Names: Gissing, George, 1857-1903 (Creator); Bentley, George, 1828-1895 (Contributor); Gissing, Algernon, 1860-1937 (Former owner); Gissing, Ellen, 1867- (Contributor); Gissing, Margaret (Contributor); Gissing, William (Contributor); Glemby, Harry (Former owner); Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) (Former owner); James, Henry, 1843-1916 (Contributor); Jones, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1861-1928 (Former owner); Moore, George, 1852-1933 (Contributor); Pemberton, T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar), 1849-1905 (Former owner); Pforzheimer, Arthur (Former owner); Pinker, James Brand, 1863-1922 (Contributor); Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 (Contributor); Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926 (Former owner); Waterlow, Sydney, 1878-1944 (Contributor); Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 (Contributor); Young, Owen D., 1874-1962 (Former owner); Lawrence & Bullen (Contributor)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1871 - 1954
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Gissing [Text]
Genres: commonplace books; Correspondence; Diaries; Drawings; Portraits; Books
Notes: Biographical/historical: George Gissing was a British novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and literary critic.; Content: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, diaries kept from 1879 to 1913, a commonplace book, financial and legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include novels, stories, and essays by the author, including the holograph of the novels "Demos" and "New Grub Street." The diaries include two volumes kept by Sir Sydney Philip Perigal Waterlow from 1907 to 1913. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence, written by the author, dating from 1876 to 1904, to George Bentley, Arthur Henry Bullen, Joseph Conrad, his brother Algernon Gissing, his sister Ellen, his sister Margaret, James B. Pinker, Morley Roberts, Clement Shorter, and others. The correspondence also includes letters relating to the author, dating from 1897 to 1954, between various individuals including Henry James, George Moore, Morley Roberts, H. G. Wells, and others. There are letters to the author from his brothers, Algernon and William Gissing, from the publishers Lawrence and Bullen, and from James B. Pinker, dating from 1875 through 1900.; Content: Card catalog available.
Physical Description: Extent: 1,108 items
Type of Resource: Text; Still image
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Gissing [Text]; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15934716; MSS Unit ID: 19211; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 951aeb60-8114-013e-e35a-0242ac110002

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