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  • Language: English X
  • Storage location: Stored offsite X
  • Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library X
  • Subject: Authors, English -- 20th century X
  • Names: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940 X

E. F. Benson papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 699
Abstract: The E. F. Benson Papers consist of writings, correspondence, and business and financial files, documenting Benson's fiction-writing career and spanning the years 1894 to 1929. Writings consist almost entirely of drafts, most corrected, of short stories by Benson, his novel Paul (1906), and an evidently unpublished and untitled novel written in 1906. Among the short stories are two of Benson's most celebrated "spook stories," "The Superannuation Department AD 1945" (1906) and "The Thing in...
Dates: 1894-1929