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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>".4 linear ft."}
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{"value"=>"MssCol 34", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"34", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"ca. 1945-1964", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1945/1964"}
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1945
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1964
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1945
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Edward Albee papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"The <span class=\"corpname\">New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">5th Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, New York 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Papers consists of numerous drafts of literary works in a range of genres. The drafts, most of which date from 1940's and 1950's, pre-date Albee's fame."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Edward Albee Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Albee, Edward, 1928-", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p> Edward F. Albee III was born March 12, 1928 in Washington D.C. The adopted son of Reed A. Albee (owner of a theatrical circuit) and Frances Cotter Albee, he was educated at Valley Forge Military Academy (1943-1944), Choate School (1944-1946), Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut 1946-1947), and Columbia University (1949). His breakthrough dramatic work,<span class=\"title\">The Zoo Story</span>, was first performed in tandem with Samuel Beckett's <span class=\"title\">Krapp's Last Tape</span> in West Berlin in 1959. Career highlights range from his most famous work, <span class=\"title\">Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf</span> (1962), to his three Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners, <span class=\"title\">A Delicate Balance</span> (1967), <span class=\"title\">Seascape</span> (1975), and <span class=\"title\">Three Tall Women</span> (1991).</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This single box of Edward Albee's papers contains both holograph and typescript manuscripts of dramas, essays, novels, operas, poems, and stories. In addition to the numerous genres, there is a wide range of completeness in the manuscripts - some of the manuscripts are quite fragmentary, others more finished, and still others are published. Albee wrote most of this material in the 1940s and the 1950s, so most of the material in the collection predates his emergence as a major American dramatist with the opening of <span class=\"title\">Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf</span> in 1962. This collection of Albee's early writing reflects his dedicated interest in exploring numerous genres as he developed his idiomatic approach to serious existential questions.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Edward Albee papers are arranged in eight series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/34#c179885'>I. Drama</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>One folder contains one fragmentary, untitled typescript of a play approximately four pages long.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/34#c179887'>II. Essays</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Some are published and some apparently are unpublished. All ten essays are typescript, some with a few holograph corrections. Subjects vary from contemporary literary discussion to what appears to be autobiography</p> This series is arranged alphabetically by title or first line.</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/34#c179897'>III. Novels</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Three draft novels. <span class=\"title\">The Flesh of Unbelievers</span>, an unfinished novel of well over five hundred manuscript pages begun while Albee was at Choate School. The entire novel is written in holograph, some in a Choate School notebook (five folders, 1945-1948). This series also contains a typescript draft of an unfinished novel with a few holograph corrections, a portion of which was published in the July, 1959, Esquire (one folder). The final item in the series is a typescript draft with a few holograph corrections of an unfinished untitled novel (one folder, n.d.)</p> This series is arranged alphabetically by title or first line then by pagination</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/34#c179905'>IV. Librettos</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Drafts of librettos for three unfinished operas. The first is The Actress, which considers various times and incidents in the career and private life of Victoria Blessing. The second is a manuscript opera apparently titled The P.H.L. Critic which combines typescript and holograph. The third, a typescript with a few holograph corrections, is a fragmentary opera with a preface which begins \"It seems to me that in a shortish concert-opera#133;\".</p> This series is arranged alphabetically by title or first line.</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/34#c179909'>V. Poetry</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Eighty-eight poems. Some of the poems are holograph, some typescript</p> This series is arranged alphabetically by title or first line.</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/34#c179916'>VI. Short Stories</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> Three short stories. The Car That Killed People, Excelsior, and an untitled story beinning \"He stopped walking and closed his eyes. There was...\". Typescripts with a few holograph corrections.</p> This series is arranged alphabetically by title or first line.</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/34#c179920'>VII. Miscellaneous Notes and Fragmentary Drafts</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Miscellaneous notes, incomplete drafts, etc. written in holograph on sheets removed from a notebook.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/34#c179922'>VIII. Ephemera</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>General notes on the preparation of manuscripts from Coward-McCann, and a New York Sun column with a dialogue entitled Who's Afraid of Edward Albee by Edward Albee.</p> This series is arranged alphabetically by title or first line</div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Transfer from the Theater Division, 1961.</p> <div class=\"note\"> <p>The Edward Albee Scripts (*T-MSS 1964-003) is a separate collection in the custody of the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p></div>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Additional Edward Albee materials can be consulted in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p> <span class=\"archref\"> Edward Albee Scripts, 1949-1966. *T-MSS 1964-003 View finding aid</span>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed and machine-readable finding aid created by Chatham Ewing.</p>"}
- date_start
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1945
- date_end
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1964