George Eliot collection of papers

id
2267
origination
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
date statement
1841-1899 [bulk 1841-1879]
key date
1841
identifier (local_mss)
19173
org unit
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
call number
Berg Coll MSS Eliot, G [Text]
b-number
b15893395
total components
76
total series
3
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:04:26 UTC
updated
2026-08-15 02:12:36 UTC
status note
(missing)
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true

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unittitle
{"value"=>"George Eliot collection of papers"}
repository
{"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
{"value"=>"This is a synthetic collection consisting of a manuscript, correspondence, a diary for 1879, notebooks, and financial documents."}
prefercite
{"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
{"value"=>"Eliot, George, 1819-1880", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>George Eliot was a British novelist, poet and essayist, born Mary Ann Evans on November 22, 1819. She first used the pseudonym \"George Eliot\" for the second installment of \"Amos Barton\" in Blackwood's Magazine, in 1858.</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials is from W. T. H. Howe, Owen D. Young, and Blanche Colton Williams. The notebook containing Lewes's notes for \"Problems of Life and Mind\" contains a presentation note signed \"Kate, Sara, & Tony\" on a card of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney. The typed copy of the letter to George Smith is a gift of Anne Fremantle, who received it from Elizabeth Smith Thompson.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p> This is a synthetic collection consisting of a manuscript, correspondence by and about the author, a diary for 1879, notebooks, and financial documents. The collection includes a holograph diary for 1879; a notebook labeled \"Miscellanies\" on spine and \"Quotations, Latin, English & Greek - and Hebrew Matters\" on front cover; and a holograph notebook of notes for volume IV of George Henry Lewes's \"Problems of life and mind.\" It also includes Lewes's literary receipt book with entries in his hand for April, 1841-1878 followed by a summary of his income, 1855-1878 in George Eliot's hand, and Lewes's record of investments and dividends at end. Included are two receipts acknowledging payment of royalties from Harper's for the author's work. The collection's single manuscript is Algernon Charles Swinburne's manuscript draft on the deaths of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot. The correspondence, dating from 1841 to 1879, includes letters from the author to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, John Chapman, Sir Richard Owen, Bessie Parkes, Frances Trollope and others, as well as a copy of a typed letter to George Smith. Also included are letters relating to the author, dating from 1859 to 1880, between various correspondents including William Allingham, D. J. O'Donaghue, John Fiske, Mary Fisk Green Stoughton, Benjamin Jowett, Harriet Martineau, and others. There are letters to Eliot from C. H. Bray, Emily Ellsworth Ford, Sara Hennell, Calvin Ellis Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others, dating from [1859?] to 1880.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The George Eliot collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19173#c224024'>Manuscripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19173#c224032'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19173#c224097'>Financial Documents</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.</p>"}
userestrict
{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</p>"}
physloc
{"value"=>"*Z-10345 [Microfilm]", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}
date_inclusive_start
1841
date_inclusive_end
1899
note
{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
keydate
1841
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
extent_statement
235 items
date_start
1841
date_end
1899
date_bulk_start
1841
date_bulk_end
1879

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