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Description: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, legal documents, an undated notebook, and portraits. The manuscripts and typescripts include drafts and fragments of poems, some of which are in W. B. Yeats' hand or which bear his corrections; synopses, interviews, and notes for works, as well as essays and notes about the author by Barrett Harper Clark and Humbert Wolfe. The correspondence includes letters, dating from [1871] to 1931, from the author to Eliza Davis Aria, Lionel H. Barton, Padraic Colum, Sir Sidney Colvin, William Leonard Courtney, Lady Maud Cunard, Nancy Cunard, Theodore Duret, Crosby Gaige, Edmund Gosse, Miss Gough, Lady Gregory, Hilda Hawthorne, Violet Hunt, to his secretary Mona Kingdon, to Clara Lanza, Thomas Werner Laurie, Sir Edward Marsh, Leonard Rees, William Michael Rossetti, James Stephens, Millicent Fanny Sutherland, T. Fisher Unwin, Carl Van Vechten, James R. Wells, Humbert Wolfe, W. B. Yeats, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1903 to 1939, between various correspondents, including Lady Gregory, Thomas Hardy, John Middleton Murry, John Quinn, and others. There are letters to Moore from Arnold Bennett, Lady Gregory, Ada Leverson, Edward Martyn, and W. B. Yeats, dating from 1891 to 1931.
Names: Moore, George, 1852-1933 (Creator); Aria, Mrs. (Eliza Davis), 1866-1931 (Addressee); Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931 (Author); Clark, Barrett H. (Barrett Harper), 1890-1953 (Author); Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 (Addressee); Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 (Addressee); Courtney, W. L. (William Leonard), 1850-1928 (Addressee); Cunard, Maud Alice Burke, Lady, 1872-1948 (Author); Duret, Théodore, 1838-1927 (Addressee); Gaige, Crosby, 1882-1949 (Addressee); Goldsmith, Alfred F. (Author); Goldsmith, Alfred F. (Former owner); Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 (Addressee); Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932 (Author); Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932 (Former owner); Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 (Author); Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) (Former owner); Hunt, Violet, 1862-1942 (Addressee); Kingdon, Mona (Author); Lanza, Clara, 1859-1939 (Addressee); Leverson, Ada (Author); Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953 (Addressee); Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953 (Former owner); Martyn, Edward, 1859-1923 (Author); Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (Addressee); Pforzheimer, Arthur (Former owner); Quinn, John, 1870-1924 (Author); Quinn, John, 1870-1924 (Former owner); Rees, Leonard (Addressee); Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919 (Addressee); Stephens, James, 1882-1950 (Addressee); Sutherland, Millicent, Duchess of, 1867-1955 (Addressee); Tranter, Edith Barbara (Former owner); Unwin, T. Fisher (Thomas Fisher), 1848-1935 (Addressee); Unwin, T. Fisher (Thomas Fisher), 1848-1935 (Former owner); Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 (Addressee); Wolfe, Humbert, 1885-1940 (Author); Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 (Author); American Play Company (Former owner); Moore, George, 1852-1933 (Author); Moore, George, 1852-1933 (Addressee); Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931 (Addressee); Cunard, Maud Alice Burke, Lady, 1872-1948 (Addressee); Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932 (Editor); Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932 (Addressee); Kingdon, Mona (Addressee); Martyn, Edward, 1859-1923 (Addressee); Wolfe, Humbert, 1885-1940 (Addressee); Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 (Addressee)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1879 - 1935 (Inferred)
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Moore, G
Topics: Moore, George, 1852-1933
Genres: Manuscripts; Typescripts; Correspondence; legal documents; Notebooks; Portraits
Notes: Biographical/historical: George Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, autobiographer, essayist and playwright.; Content: Card catalog available.; Funding: Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.
Physical Description: Extent: 1,314 items
Type of Resource: Text; Still image
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15889880; MSS Unit ID: 19161; RLIN/OCLC: NYPW04-A61; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 307f33b0-7914-0139-a691-0242ac110002

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