- unitid
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{"value"=>"2885", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 2885", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"ca. 1917-1923", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1917/1923"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1917
- date_inclusive_end
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1923
- keydate
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1917
- date_start
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1917
- date_end
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1923
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Eva Southgate Stewart papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2.8 linear feet (7 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Eva Southgate Stewart wrote The Ancient Cipher or God's Wisdom in a Mystery, a religious treatise published in 1932. Collection contains typescript of first two volumes of The Ancient Cipher, bound notebooks and loose notes. Typescript is concerned with themes from the Old and New Testaments and includes chapters on the existence of the civilization of Atlantis and the Holy Grail. Notes consist mostly of collected phrases to be used in the text of Stewart's book."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Eva Southgate Stewart papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Stewart, Eva Southgate", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Stewart-wrote <em>The Ancient Cipher: or \"God's Wisdom in a Mystery</em>\" a projected seven volume work begun ca. 1917 and published in 1932, Evidently a devout Christian, Stewart believed that a \"mathematical cryptograph\", concealing divine meaning within the everyday sense of certain phrases and words could be deciphered through the use of gematria, a form of numerology based on the substitution of numbers for letters which was originally developed by Jewish Cabalists but was also adopted by Christian Mystics. Stewart believed that she revealed divine truth and knowledge by grouping phrases and sentences, drawn from unidentified sources, to form a text of the \"Sacred Word\".</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection includes a typescript of the first two volumes of <em>The Ancient Cipher</em>, along with bound notebooks and loose notes, 1917- 1923. The typescript is concerned with themes from both the Old and the New Testaments; also included are chapters on the existence of the Civilization of Atlantis and the Holy Grail, The <em>bound</em> notebooks and loose notes consist mostly of collected phrases evidently to be used in the actual text of <em>The Ancient Cipher</em>.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>October 17, 1985</p>"}
- extent_statement
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2.8 linear feet (7 boxes)