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Description: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, undated notebooks, financial and legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works.
Names: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 (Creator); Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937 (Correspondent); Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931 (Correspondent); Bowers, Fredson (Correspondent); Cabel, Thomas (Correspondent); Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 (Correspondent); Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 (Correspondent); Guthrie, Charles John Guthrie, Lord, 1849-1920 (Correspondent); Hamilton, Clayton Meeker, 1881-1946 (Correspondent); Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) (Former owner); Lee, Arthur Hamilton Lee, viscount, 1868-1947 (Correspondent); Meredith, George, 1828-1909 (Correspondent); Moody, Sidney (Contributor); Moore, George, 1852-1933 (Correspondent); Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 (Correspondent); Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 (Correspondent); Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926 (Correspondent); Steuart, John A. (John Alexander), 1861-1932 (Correspondent); Stevenson, M. I. (Margaret Isabella), 1829-1897 (Correspondent); Young, Owen D., 1874- (Former owner); A. P. Watt and Son (Contributor); American Play Company (Former owner)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1873 - 1944 (Inferred)
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Stevenson
Genres: Correspondence; Notebooks
Notes: Biographical/historical: Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet.; Content: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, undated notebooks, financial and legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include a number of holograph poems and incomplete or unfinished holographs of stories and novels. Also present are manuscripts and emended typescripts by Fredson Bowers, Clayton Meeker Hamilton, John Steuart, and Vladimir Nabokov. The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1874 to 1894 from the author to J. M. Barrie, Edmund Gosse, Clement King Shorter, Stevenson's mother Margaret Balfour Stevenson, and others. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from [1873] to 1944, between various correspondents including W. K. Bixby, Sidney Colvin, Edmund Gosse, Charles John Guthrie, Clayton Meeker Hamilton, George Moore, Christopher D. Morley, and others. There are letters to Stevenson from George Meredith and from A. P. Watt Son., dating from 1878 to 1894.; Content: Card catalog available.
Physical Description: Extent: 201 items
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Stevenson; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15902203; MSS Unit ID: 19178; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 81b1f9a0-1720-013e-af37-0242ac110003

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