- Additional Authors
- Description
- 5.25 linear feet (6 boxes).
- Summary
- Collection consists primarily of manuscripts and typescripts of poems written by Mitchell from 1884 to 1915.
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Biography (note)
- Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1862-1935), American poet and playwright, used the pseudonym John Philip Varley. His best-known plays were Becky Sharp (1899) and The New York Idea (1906).
- Processing Action (note)
- Surveyed
- Cataloging updated
- Call Number
- MssCol 2022
- OCLC
- NYPW89-A655
- Author
Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn, 1862-1935.
- Title
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell papers, 1883-1936.
- Restricted Access
Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1862-1935), American poet and playwright, used the pseudonym John Philip Varley. His best-known plays were Becky Sharp (1899) and The New York Idea (1906). He taught playwriting at the University of Pennsylvania from 1928 to 1930. His father was S. Weir Mitchell, neurologist and author.
- Finding Aids
Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
Dramatists.
Poets.
- Added Author
Keyserling, Hermann, Graf von, 1880-1946.
Patrick, Paul J.
Williams, Talcott, 1849-1928.
Wister, Owen, 1860-1938.
- Research Call Number
MssCol 2022