W. H. Auden collection of papers

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Description: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence to, from, and about the author, notebooks dating from [1928] to [1973], undated commonplace books, diaries for 1959 through 1973, journals for 1929 through 1964, legal and financial documents, a certificate, portraits, and pictorial works.
Names: Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 (Creator); Ansen, Alan (Contributor); Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 (Contributor); Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 (Contributor); Coghill, Nevill, 1899-1980 (Contributor); Cogswell, Wayne (Contributor); Doone, Rupert, 1903-1966 (Contributor); Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 (Contributor); Fox, Orlan (Contributor); Griffin, Howard, 1915-1975 (Contributor); Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986 (Contributor); Jaffe, Rhoda (Contributor); Johnson, Wendell Stacy, 1927- (Donor); Kenmore, Noemi (Contributor); Luke, David, 1921- (Contributor); Mayer, Elizabeth (Contributor); Mayer, Elizabeth (Former owner); Merrill, James, 1926-1995 (Contributor); Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019 (Contributor); Newton, Caroline, 1893- (Contributor); Salus, Peter H. (Contributor); Sarton, May, 1912-1995 (Contributor); Sheffield, Eric C. (Donor); Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964 (Contributor); Spears, Monroe K., 1916-1998 (Contributor); Spears, Monroe K., 1916-1998 (Donor); Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995 (Contributor); Stern, James, 1904-1993 (Contributor); Stern, Tania (Contributor); Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 (Contributor); Group Theatre (U.S.) (Former owner)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1809 - 1979
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Auden
Topics: Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
Genres: Certificates; commonplace books; Correspondence; Diaries; Notebooks
Notes: Biographical/historical: Wystan Hugh Auden was a poet, translator, literary critic, librettist, and playwright.; Content: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, notebooks dating from [1928] to [1973], undated commonplace books, diaries for 1959 through 1973, journals for 1929 through 1964, legal and financial documents, a certificate, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts consist of drafts of poems, some of which were published in "Thank you, Fog," "Epistle to a Godson," or his collected poems; librettos, notes toward works, essays, plays, lectures, speeches, criticism, and translations. The collection also contains manuscripts and typescripts relating to Auden. The collection contains correspondence by the author, dating from 1930 through 1973, to Benjamin Britten, Nevill Coghill, Wayne Cogswell, Rupert Doone, Orlan Fox, Margaret Gardiner, Howard Griffin, Rhoda Jaffe, Noemi Kenmore, David Luke, Elizabeth Mayer, W. S. Merwin, Caroline Newton, Peter H. Salus, May Sarton, Monroe Spears, Stephen Spender, James and Tania Stern, and others. It also contains letters relating to the author, dating from 1934 to 1979, between various correspondents, including Alan Ansen, Hannah Arendt, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, James Merrill, Peter Salus, Edith Sitwell, W. B. Yeats, and others, as well as letters to the author from various correspondents dating from 1936 to 1973.; Content: Card catalog available.
Physical Description: Extent: 2,978 items
Type of Resource: Text; Still image
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Auden; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15847219; MSS Unit ID: 19132; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8a30c7e0-6711-0134-3b8e-00505686d14e