Literary manuscripts. Victorian manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of the New York Public Library

The Berg Collection is recognised as one of the finest literary research collections in the world, and the Victorian manuscript holdings are the undisputed jewel in its crown. A broad range of authors from across the nineteenth century makes the collection an invaluable research tool for scholars and students of Victorian literature. Authors represented in the collection include: Matthew Arnold, the Brontèes, 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. Unpublished poems, working notebooks, holograph manuscripts and drawings trace the inspiration and genesis of the works.