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- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Somerville", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19327", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1886-1938", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1886/1938"}
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1886
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1938
- keydate
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1886
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Edith OEnone Somerville 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, portraits, 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"=>"Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858-1949", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Edith OEnone Somerville was an Irish short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and illustrator.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Previous owners include Elizabeth Hudson and Violet Martin.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include stories, essays, portions and drafts of novels, and reviews by the author, as well as poems and novel plots by her cousin and collaborator Violet Florence Martin (a.k.a. Martin Ross). The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1886 to 1938, to Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory, Violet Martin, Ethel Mary Smyth, the literary agency James B. Pinker and Son, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1901 to 1951, between various correspondents, including Geraldine Cummins, Elizabeth Hudson, Violet Martin, Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett, Sir Owen Seaman, James B. Pinker and Son, and others. There are letters to Somerville from Violet Florence Martin dating from 1886 to 1912.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Edith OEnone Somerville collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19327#c220581'>Manuscripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19327#c220607'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19327#c220627'>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>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- 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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308 items
- date_start
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1886
- date_end
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1938