Collection of letters to Kyle Crichton from leftist activists, screenwriters, novelists, literary critics, fans, etc

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{"value"=>"Berg Coll m.b. (Crichton, K) A.l.s. to Kyle Crichton from activists and writers", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"22129", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Collection of letters to Kyle Crichton from leftist activists, screenwriters, novelists, literary critics, fans, etc"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1927]-1960", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"inferred", "normal"=>"1927/1960"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 century box"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"size varies"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1927

date_inclusive_end

1960

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Includes letters to Crichton from George Albee, Elfego Baca, Jacob Baker, Alvah Bessie, George Boehm, John Malcolm Brinnin, George A. Byus, Alistair Cooke, Frances E. Crawford, Guy Endore, Ray Etis, Edward Fitzgerald, Daniel Fuchs, Mildred Gilman, Mike Gold, Joe Gould, Paul Horgan, Wynant David Hubbard, Belinda Jelliffe, Fred Keating, Arthur Kober, Isabel F. Lewis, Horace McCoy, Edward L. McKenna, Archibald MacLeish, Agnes Bright Malling, Andre Malraux, Elizabeth Nowell, Arthur Pense, Elmer Rice, M. Lincoln Schuster, Ronald Searle, George and Helen Seldes, Vincent Sheean, Robert Sherwood, Lee Simonson, Robert Smeltzer, Dudley Smith, Donald Ogden Stewart, Frank Sullivan, Herbert Bayard Swope, Robert Lewis Taylor, Ella Winter, and Art Young.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"method"=>"Gift;", "source"=>"Jennifer, Sarah, and Rob Crichton;", "date"=>"November 2009;", "accession_number"=>"008022", "value"=>"Gift;, Jennifer, Sarah, and Rob Crichton;, November 2009;"}

note

{"value"=>"<p>Kyle Crichton was a noted fiction writer, playwright, and leftist political columnist and commentator whose career flourished from the late 1920s through the 1940s. He was an editor at Collier's, a magazine that featured short fiction and leftist political news analysis, and a columnist for The New Masses, a Communist weekly. He also published biographies of the New Mexico sheriff Elfego Baca and of the Marx Brothers. He wrote his political articles under the pen name \"Robert Forsythe.\"</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>A detailed list of the letters is available in the Berg Collection</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Collection also includes letters to others regarding Crichton and various additional materials including offprints, clippings, manuscripts and typescripts, caricatures, etc. Please consult the Berg Collection for details</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

keydate

1927

prefercite

{"value"=>"Collection of letters to Kyle Crichton from leftist activists, screenwriters, novelists, literary critics, fans, etc, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>" Includes letters to Crichton from George Albee, Elfego Baca, Jacob Baker, Alvah Bessie, George Boehm, John Malcolm Brinnin, George A. Byus, Alistair Cooke, Frances E. Crawford, Guy Endore, Ray Etis, Edward Fitzgerald, Daniel Fuchs, Mildred Gilman, Mike Gold, Joe Gould, Paul Horgan, Wynant David Hubbard, Belinda Jelliffe, Fred Keating, Arthur Kober, Isabel F. Lewis, Horace McCoy, Edward L. McKenna, Archibald MacLeish, Agnes Bright Malling, Andre Malraux, Elizabeth Nowell, Arthur Pense, Elmer Rice, M. Lincoln Schuster, Ronald Searle, George and Helen Seldes, Vincent Sheean, Robert Sherwood, Lee Simonson, Robert Smeltzer, Dudley Smith, Donald Ogden Stewart, Frank Sullivan, Herbert Bayard Swope, Robert Lewis Taylor, Ella Winter, and Art Young.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

1 century box, size varies; 1 century box, size varies

date_start

1927

date_end

1960

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