Alfred Kazin collection of papers

id
238
origination
Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
date statement
1933-1990 [bulk 1933-1978]
key date
1933
identifier (local_mss)
19192
org unit
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
call number
Berg Coll MSS Kazin
b-number
b15922519
total components
413
total series
4
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 14:58:51 UTC
updated
2018-06-04 18:36:41 UTC
status note
(missing)
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true

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physdesc
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unitid
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{"value"=>"19192", "type"=>"local_mss"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"1933-1990", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1933/1990"}
{"value"=>"1933-1978", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1933/1978"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Alfred Kazin 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 manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, journals kept from 1933 to 1990, and portrait photographs."}
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"=>"Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Alfred Kazin was an American essayist, literary critic, and historian.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, journals kept from 1933 to 1990, and portrait photographs. The manuscripts and typescripts include poems, drafts of novels, essays, short stories, and notes for work by the author, as well as excerpts from a transcript containing the testimony of Alfred Kazin and Malcolm Cowley in a case against Grove Press, Inc. The correspondence, dating from [1962] to 1978 includes letters from the author to Herbert Gold, Harry Levin, Muriel Rukeyser, and Louis Untermeyer. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1941 to 1980, between various correspondents, including Carson McCullers, Herbert Mitgang, John Dos Passos, and others. There are letters to Kazin from Hannah Arendt, Atlantic Monthly Press, Saul Bellow, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Burnshaw, Truman Capote, Peter Davison, Lucy Dawidowicz, David Leo Diamond, Leon Edel, George P. Elliott, James T. Farrell, William Faulkner, Robert Flint, Herbert Gold, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., Josephine Herbst, Edward Hoagland, Irving Howe, Randall Jarrell, Howard Jones, Jack Kerouac, Elinor Langer, Bernard Malamud, Francis O. Matthiessen, Carson McCullers, Herbert Mitgang, Lewis Mumford, Sylvia Plath, Laura Riding, Harold Rosenberg, Isaac Rosenfeld, Philip Roth, Upton Sinclair, Francis Steegmuller, John Updike, Mark Van Doren, John Wain, Eudora Welty, Edmund Wilson, Jose Yglesias, and others, dating from 1937 to 1990.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Alfred Kazin collection of papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19192#c215486'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19192#c215860'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19192#c215893'>Portraits</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19192#c215897'>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-10371 [Microfilm]", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}
date_inclusive_start
1933
date_inclusive_end
1990
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.</p>"}
altformavail
{"value"=>"<p>Journals : 1933-1990 ; Journal, holograph and typescrpt : 1988-89. Available in microfilm as part of the Alfred Kazin collection of papers; service copy classmark: *Z-10371</p>"}
note
{"value"=>"<p>The Berg Collection also holds Alfred Kazin's personal archive, which cannot be used until it is processed. Consult the Berg Collection staff for an additional group of unprocessed materials</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
keydate
1933
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
extent_statement
1,207 items
date_start
1933
date_end
1990
date_bulk_start
1933
date_bulk_end
1978

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