- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"430 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Cummings", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19155", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1916-1962", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1916/1962"}
{"value"=>"1939-1959", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1939/1959"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"E. E. Cummings 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, financial documents, portraits, pictorial works and a sketchbook."}
- 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"=>"Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Edward Estlin Cummings was an American poet, novelist, playwright and essayist.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials are from the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, financial documents, portraits, pictorial works and a sketchbook. The manuscripts and typescripts include the author's poems, essays, and notes toward works, as well as essays, notes, and articles by various individuals, including John Dos Passos, Randall Jarrell, and Louis Zukofsky, about the author and his works. The correspondence, dating from 1916 to 1962, includes letters from the author to James Light, Muriel Rukeyser, May Sarton, Frances Steloff, and Hildegarde and James Watson, Jr., and others. The collection also includes a letter from Richard P. Blackmur to Frances Steloff relating to the author, as well as a 1947 letter from Cyril Connolly and another from William Brown Doherty, dated 1961, both addressed to Cummings.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The E. E. Cummings collection of papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19155#c220390'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19155#c220406'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19155#c220423'>Financial Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19155#c220425'>Portraits and 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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1916
- date_inclusive_end
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1962
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- keydate
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1916
- 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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430 items
- date_start
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1916
- date_end
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1962
- date_bulk_start
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1939
- date_bulk_end
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1959