- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"118 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Lamb", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19242", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1797-1934", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1797/1934"}
{"value"=>"1797-1836", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1797/1836"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Charles Lamb collection of papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, eleven undated commonplace books, an album dating from 1831 to 1843, financial documents, and pictorial works."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Charles Lamb was an English poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, and literary critic.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Previous owners include J. Eglington Bailey, Augustine Birrell, Cortlandt Bishop, W. K. Bixby, John L. Clawson, Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, Frank J. Hogan, W. T. H. Howe, Frederick Locker Lampson, John Howard Payne, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Roderick Terry, and Owen D. Young.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, eleven undated commonplace books, an album dating from 1831 to 1843, financial documents, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include poems, portions of plays, notes, essays, and reviews in holograph, as well as manuscripts of essays and poems relating to the author by Thomas De Quincey, George A. Sala, Walter Wilson, William Wordsworth, and others. The correspondence includes letters by the author, dating from 1797 to [1834], to Thomas Allsop, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hone, Leigh Hunt, Edward Moxon, Robert Southey, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1798 to circa 1818, between various correspondents including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Lamb, John May, Robert Southey, and others.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Charles Lamb collection of papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19242#c219181'>Manuscripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19242#c219220'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19242#c219295'>Financial Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19242#c219297'>Pictorial Works</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</p>"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1797
- date_inclusive_end
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1934
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- langmaterial_code
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lat
eng
- keydate
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1797
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Some corresondence in Latin"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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118 items
- date_start
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1797
- date_end
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1934
- date_bulk_start
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1797
- date_bulk_end
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1836