- physdesc
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- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Gissing [Text]", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19211", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1871-1954", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1871/1954"}
{"value"=>"1878-1929", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1878/1929"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"George Gissing 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 manuscripts, correspondence, diaries kept from 1879 to 1913, a commonplace book, financial and legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works."}
- 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"=>"Gissing, George, 1857-1903", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>George Gissing was a British novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and literary critic.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials was previously owned by W. T. H. Howe and Arthur Pforzheimer. Other former owners include John Ford, Algernon Gissing, Harry Glemby, Herschel V. Jones, Thomas Edgar Pemberton, Clement Shorter, and Owen D. Young.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p> This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, diaries kept from 1879 to 1913, a commonplace book, financial and legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include novels, stories, and essays by the author, including the holograph of the novels \"Demos\" and \"New Grub Street.\" The diaries include two volumes kept by Sir Sydney Philip Perigal Waterlow from 1907 to 1913. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence, written by the author, dating from 1876 to 1904, to George Bentley, Arthur Henry Bullen, Joseph Conrad, his brother Algernon Gissing, his sister Ellen, his sister Margaret, James B. Pinker, Morley Roberts, Clement Shorter, and others. The correspondence also includes letters relating to the author, dating from 1897 to 1954, between various individuals including Henry James, George Moore, Morley Roberts, H. G. Wells, and others. There are letters to the author from his brothers, Algernon and William Gissing, from the publishers Lawrence and Bullen, and from James B. Pinker, dating from 1875 through 1900.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The George Gissing collection of papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19211#c224100'>Manuscripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19211#c224129'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19211#c224648'>Financial and Legal Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19211#c224656'>Portraits and Pictorial Works</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19211#c224661'>Flora</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>"}
- physloc
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{"value"=>"*Z-10346 [Microfilm]", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}
- date_inclusive_start
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1871
- date_inclusive_end
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1954
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- langmaterial_code
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fre
eng
- keydate
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1871
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Some materials in French"}
- 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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1,108 items
- date_start
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1871
- date_end
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1954
- date_bulk_start
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1878
- date_bulk_end
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1929