>> i am curator of henry and albert berg collection of english literature. worked in the new york public library in the past and was later a curator at methodist university and downtown at the theological seminary and got a doctorate and renaissance history at columbia and that led to me being here. >> host: how long have you been at the new york public library? >> as curator september 2000. >> host: you brought up things to show us. >> the berg has 2,000 linear feet of archives and printed items and $400 but this is what i like to call the tip of the berg. we have the only surviving manuscript of police on it satires and paradoxes done in his lifetime. not in his hand but in the hand of his secretary and personal assistant. this has the highest authority deriving directly from his own manuscript. you can see the differences between the text that were made in the first edition them perpetuated but in this on at all who wore burst a each all of those have been destroyed by this will be resurrected on the day of judgment. and this word is transcribed as death

and albert a berg collection american literature. i worked in the library in the past in the rare book division. i worked as a curator at southern methodist university and downtown as well and i've had all of that led to my being here. >> how long have you been with the new york public library? >> as a curator i've been here since september of 2000. >> you have brought some things out to show us. >> yes, it's an enormous collection and there's lots of printed items and this is what i'd i like to call the tip of the iceberg. here we have the only surviving manuscript of what he has done in his own lifetime. it's not in his hand but in the hand of his personal assistant and this has the highest authority directly from his own manuscript. and you can see changes and differences between the text is represented here in the transcriptions or made in the first edition perpetuated throughout the centuries. for instance here in this sonnet, all of those will be resurrected on the day of judgment and this was only in the 20th century that it w