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Jun 28, 2010

Marginal

Talk story about marginalia at the New York Public Library…
March 29, 1999

Nabokov’s Dreams

SCRAPBOOK excerpt from Vladimir Nabokov’s journal, quoting an entry from 23 Nov 1964, 6:45 a.m. Writer describes a butterfly-related dream... Taken from “Nabokov Under Glass: A Centennial Exhibition” at the New York Public Library... Includes full-page illustration showing drawings of butterfly wings Nabokov drew…
December 31, 1984

CITY VOICES LOLA SZLADITS

PROFILE of Lola Szladits, curator of the Berg Collection housed at the New York Public Library. It is formally known as the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, and it contains roughly 150,000 items. Lists some of these items. The Berg Collection was begun…
December 17, 1973

New in the Berg

Talk story about the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. Among the recent acquistions of the Berg is a section, on display, called "The James Joyce Circle in France." It contains a 1929 "out-of-series" first edition of "Ulysses" (one of ten copies printed on Holland paper…
March 17, 1973

Bolstering Self-Esteem

Talk story about a show held in the exhibition room of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, at the Public Library. On display are 170-odd books and manuscripts which make up a show called "Documents Famous & Infamous". Lola L. Szladits, the…
March 25, 1972

Vintage Year

Talk story about "1922: A Vintage Year", the N.Y. Public Library's Jan. - Sept. exhibit of manuscripts, letters, drawings, photographs, & 1st editions selected from the library's Albert A. and Henry W. Berg Collection of English and American literature. The title of the exhibit refers to the wealth of good literature…
December 06, 1969

Sketching Scriveners

Talk story about the show "Pen & Brush: The Author as Artist," mounted by the Berg Collection in the Public Library. Mrs. Browning's sketch of her spaniel Flush is in the exhibit…
March 23, 1968

Bennett Show

Talk story about a display called "Arnold Bennett: The Centenary of His Birth" in the gallery of the Berg Collection at the Public Library. It contains some 300 exhibits arranged in 42 glass cases accompanied by 157 captions (many of them small essays), written by the late John D. Gordon…
October 03, 1964

Berg Acquisitions

Talk story about the Berg Collection of the N.Y. Public Library. One of their chief acquisitions has been the major collection of Virginia Woolf manuscripts. One thing they do not have is the principal manuscript of "Mrs. Dalloway". Mrs. Woolf gave it to Vita Sackville-West, and it is now…
December 29, 1956

G.B.S.

Talk story about the G.B. Shaw exhibit at the N.Y. Public Library. During the First World War, Shaw bracketed England, France, and Germany as exponents of power politics. This attitude was reflected in "Common Sense About the War," an article of his that the New Statesman published on Nov. 14…
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