Robert Graves collection of papers

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Description: Robert Graves was a British poet, novelist, translator, and writer of ballads, children's literature, essays, librettos, and literary criticism. This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, notebooks, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include poems, some transcribed by Sir Edward Howard Marsh; plays, essays, notes for works, and criticism. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1914 to 1972, to T. I. F. Armstrong, Juanita and Sven Berlin, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, James Burton Pond, Michael Roberts, Siegfried Sassoon, the literary agency J. B. Pinker and Son, and others. There are letters to Graves from Cecil Day-Lewis, Walter de la Mare, Geoffrey Grigson, Herbert Mitgang, Siegfried Sassoon, Louis Untermeyer, and others, dating from 1922 to 1970.
Names: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 (Creator)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1914 - 1975
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Graves
Topics: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Genres: Manuscripts; Correspondence; Illustrations
Notes: Ownership: Many of the the materials were formerly owned by Sir Edward Howard Marsh and Doubleday & Co.
Physical Description: Extent: 1,123 items
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15922524; MSS Unit ID: 19197; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 86302fe0-c6f3-012f-4461-58d385a7bc34