- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"67 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Chesterton", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19231", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1895?]-1935", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"questionable", "normal"=>"1895/1935"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1895
- date_inclusive_end
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1935
- keydate
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1895
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 and typescripts, correspondence, an undated notebook, legal and financial documents, a sketchbook, and a portrait sketch."}
- 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"=>"Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer of autobiographies, biographies, essays, historical works, journalism, literary criticism, novels, plays, and short-stories.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Previous owners include Humbert Wolfe, the American Play Company, W. T. H. Howe, and Owen D. Young.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, an undated notebook, legal and financial documents, a sketchbook, and a portrait sketch. The manuscripts and typescripts include articles and essays, poems, and a number of reader's reports sent to the publisher T. Fisher Unwin about various authors. Also included are essays, reviews and notes for essays about Chesterton, in typescript and manuscript, written by W. H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Sean O'Casey, Bernard Shaw, Ann Wolfe, and Humbert Wolfe. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1904 to 1935, to E. V. Lucas, Clement King Shorter, the publisher T. Fisher Unwin, and the literary agency A. P. Watt and Son. The collection also includes correspondence relating to the author, dating from 1896 to 1928, between various correspondents, including Edward Chesterton, Dorothy Collins, H. B. Elliott, Humbert Wolfe, T. Fisher Unwin, A. P. Watt and Son, and the literary agency James B. Pinker and Son. There is one letter to Chesterton from Humbert Wolfe, dated April 19, 1933.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Gilbert Keith Chesterton collection of papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19231#c225286'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19231#c225332'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19231#c225346'>Financial and Legal Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19231#c225351'>Pictorial Works</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>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- 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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67 items
- date_start
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1895
- date_end
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1935