- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"75 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Isherwood", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19195", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1926-1975", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1926/1975"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1926
- date_inclusive_end
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1975
- keydate
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1926
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Christopher Isherwood 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 and typescripts, correspondence, and portraits."}
- 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"=>"Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Christopher Isherwood was a British expatriate who emigrated to America in 1939. He authored novels, plays, screenplays, expositions, and translations of the Vedanta.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Some material was previously owned by Caroline Newton and the Group Theatre Archive.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, and portraits. The manuscripts and typescripts consist of plays written with W. H. Auden, articles by Howard Griffin and James Stern about Isherwood, and reviews by John Maynard Keynes. Also present is correspondence, dating from 1926 to 1975, from the author to Benjamin Britten, Rupert Doone, Howard Griffin, Alfred Kazin, Olive Mangeot, Elizabeth Mayer, Judith Moffett, and Glenway Wescott, as well as letters from Herbet Mitgang to Isherwood, dating from 1967 to 1975. There are letters to Isherwood from W. H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Herbert Mitgang, D. A. Parry, and Glenway Wescott, dating from 1939 to 1975.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Christopher Isherwood collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19195#c219565'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19195#c219580'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19195#c219600'>Portraits</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>"}
- 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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75 items
- date_start
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1926
- date_end
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1975