Ronald Firbank collection of papers

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Description: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, notebooks, correspondence, legal documents, pictorial works, flower cuttings, an album of photographs and autographs, and portraits.
Names: Firbank, Ronald, 1886-1926 (Creator); Chapman, Guy (Auctioneer); Firbank, Heather (Author); Firbank, Jane Harriette Garrett (Author); Hernandez y Sevilla, Manuel de (Author); Hoyos y Vincent, Antonio de, 1885-1940 (Author); Talboys, Rollo St. Clare (Author); Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 (Author); Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 (Former owner); Wallace, Edwin James (Author); Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 (Author); Firbank, Ronald, 1886-1926 (Addressee)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1896 - 1952
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Firbank
Topics: Firbank, Ronald, 1886-1926
Genres: Albums (Books); Correspondence; Notebooks; Documents; Portraits
Notes: Biographical/historical: Ronald Firbank, born Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank, was a British novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.; Content: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, notebooks, correspondence by and about the author, legal documents, pictorial works, flower cuttings, an album of photographs and autographs, and portraits. The manuscripts and typescripts include typewritten drafts of stories, holograph notes and fragments of works, as well translations of the the author's works. The undated notebooks include stories, novels, and translations. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence by the author, dating from 1922 to 1925, to Carl Van Vechten,and others. The collection also includes letters about the author, dating from 1905 to 1952, between various correspondents including Heather Firbank, Lady Jane Harriette Garrett Firbank, Carl Van Vechten, Edwin James Wallace and others. There are letters to the author from Guy Chapman, members of the Firbank family, Manuel (Manolo) de Hernandez y Sevilla, Antonio de Hoyos y Vincent, Rollo St. Clair Talboys, Carl Van Vechten, H. G. Wells, and others, dating from 1897 to 1926.; Content: Card catalog available.; Funding: Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.
Physical Description: Extent: 279 items
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Firbank; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15847648; MSS Unit ID: 19141; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4d4df330-987c-013c-0687-0242ac110002