Literary Manuscripts is drawn from the extensive nineteenth century holdings of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
These unique manuscripts are supplemented by some rare printed materials, including early editions annotated by the authors.
Authors represented in the collection include:
Matthew Arnold
The Brontës
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Wilkie Collins
Joseph Conrad
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
George Gissing
Thomas Hardy
Henry James
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
John Ruskin
Alfred Tennyson
William Makepeace Thackeray
Correspondence, unpublished poems, working notebooks, holograph manuscripts and drawings trace the inspiration and genesis behind the period's greatest works.