- physdesc
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- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Wilson", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19279", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1922-1978", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1922/1978"}
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1922
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1978
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1922
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Edmund Wilson 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 typescripts, a manuscript, correspondence, and a portrait photograph."}
- 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"=>"Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Edmund Wilson was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Some material was formerly owned by the publisher Harper & Row.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p> This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts, a manuscript, correspondence by and about the author, and a portrait photograph. The typescripts consist of an essay by the author, as well as drafts of a biography and an article about him by Alfred Kazin, Valdimir Nabokov, and Allen Tate. The manuscript is a review of the author's work by Wystan Hugh Auden. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dated 1923 to 1971, to Sylvia Beach, Mary Maguire Colum, Anne Fremantle, Alfred Kazin, Samuel Menashe, Vladimir Nabokov, Frances Steloff, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dated from 1922 to 1978, between various correspondents including Louise Bogan, Alfred Kazin, Harry Levin, John Wain, Elena Wilson, and others. There are letters to Wilson from Christian Gauss, Vera Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest J. Simmons, Sara Teasdale, Louis Untermeyer, Edward Weeks, Katharine S. White, Peter H. Salus, and Helen Woodward, dating from [1940] to 1971.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Edmund Wilson collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19279#c220634'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19279#c220645'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19279#c220684'>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>"}
- 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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424 items
- date_start
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1922
- date_end
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1978