George Eliot manuscript material

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unitid

{"value"=>"Pforz MS", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"21929", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"George Eliot manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1862-ca. 1875", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1862/1875"}

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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"7 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1862

date_inclusive_end

1875

origination

{"value"=>"Eliot, George, 1819-1880", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>George Eliot (pseudonym of Marian Evans), English novelist.</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Holograph notebook, \"Hebraic studies & miscellaneous notes\" : ca. 1875 : (MISC 0707) : 124 p. Shelved with bound manuscript materials.|||Holograph notebook, \"Miscellaneous Quotes\" : no date : (MISC 0708) : 109 p. ; entries divided under various headings : p. 2, \"Miscellaneous Quotations\" ; p. 67, \"Browneisms\" ; p. 84, \"Power of simple words\" ; p. 86, \"Fine pauses\" ; p. 91, \"From Walt Whitman\" ; p. 98, \"Rabbinical sayings\" ; p. 104, \"Fables.\" Shelved with bound manuscript materials.|||Holograph notebook, \"Präparation zum Pentateuch\" : no date : (MISC 0709) : 4 p. within larger notebook (most pages blank). One holograph note is laid in, relating to Hebrew translations. Also laid in is a copy of a German (with Hebrew) edition of part of the Pentateuch, Genesis - Exodus 13:14 (Verlag von Wilhelm Violet, 1847). Shelved with bound manuscript materials.|||Holograph notebook, \"Oriental Memoranda, arranged alphabetically\" : no date : (MISC 0710) : 41 p. within larger notebook (many pages blank). Newspaper clippings are mounted on the endpapers, and some are laid in. Shelved with bound manuscript materials.|||Holograph notebook, \"Miscellaneous Notes\" : no date : (MISC 0711) : 114 p. ; within purple morocco clamshell box. Shelved with bound manuscript materials.|||To Sara Hennell, friend and religious writer : 1 autograph letter signed \"Pollian\" : 14 Jul 1862 : (MISC 1299) : referring to Romola, and Mr. Leighton's illustrations.|||To George Simpson, of Blackwood's, her publisher : 1 autograph letter signed \"M Lewes\" : 12 Mar 1874 : (MISC 3618) : on her desires for the production of Jubal and Other Poems.</p>"}

relatedmaterial

{"value"=>"<p>Additional George Eliot manuscript material can be found in the following divisions of The New York Public Library: The Manuscripts and Archives Division; The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature</p>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Holograph notebook, \"Hebraic studies & miscellaneous notes\" : ca. 1875 : (MISC 0707) : 124 p. Shelved with bound manuscript materials."}

keydate

1862

prefercite

{"value"=>"George Eliot manuscript material : 7 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

extent_statement

7 items

date_start

1862

date_end

1875

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