Literary Manuscripts, Berg（文学手稿, Berg）被公认为世界上最精细的文艺研究典藏之一，而维多利亚女士时代的藏品则是宝中之宝。这些手稿来自于生活在19世纪的各类作者，为研究维多利亚女王时代的文学提供了一个基础研究工具。
Period Covered
- 19th Century
Highlights
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s two part diary from 1832, plus four notebooks containing working drafts of poems from 1843
- A manuscript of Wilkie Collins’ play The Lighthouse
- A substantial collection of original sketches, watercolours, and pen and ink drawings by William Makepeace Thackeray
- A letter by Charlotte Brontë describing the death of Emily Trollope’s holograph manuscript of his novel Miss Mackenzie
- An original watercolour by Emily Brontë entitled ‘Forget Me Not’
- Swinburne’s sequence of sonnets on the death of Browning
- Charles Dickens’ correspondence to Mrs Gaskell, Edgar Allan Poe, Leigh Hunt, George Lewes and many others
- Bound holograph manuscript of Hardy’s The Three Strangers
Source Archive
- The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library
Material Types
- Original manuscripts
- Literary drafts
- Correspondence
- Financial documents
- Personal items relating to the Berg authors
Editorial Board
- Isaac Gewirtz, Curator of The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
- Stephen Prickett, University of Glasgow
- Marjorie Stone, Dalhousie University
- Beverley Taylor, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
Authors
- Matthew Arnold
- Emily Bronte
- 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