Algernon Charles Swinburne collection of papers

id
248
origination
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909
date statement
1856]-1945 [bulk 1866-1909]
key date
1856
identifier (local_mss)
19123
org unit
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
call number
Berg Coll MSS Swinburne
b-number
b15823744
total components
324
total series
3
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 18:37:21 UTC
status note
(missing)
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true

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physdesc
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unitid
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unitdate
{"value"=>"1856]-1945", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1856/1945", "certainty"=>"inferred"}
{"value"=>"1866-1909", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1866/1909"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Algernon Charles Swinburne 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, a typescript, correspondence, a notebook for 1856 through 1857, financial documents, and portraits."}
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"=>"Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Algernon Charles Swinburne was a British poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, and literary critic.</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>Former owners include Clement King Shorter, Andrew Chatto, Walter Chrysler, A. Edward Newton, John L. Clawson, Jerome Kern, W. T. H. Howe, Owen D. Young, and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p> This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, a typescript, correspondence, a notebook for 1856 through 1857, financial documents, and portraits. The manuscripts include poems, essays, fragments of plays, criticism, articles, and notes toward works. Also included are manuscripts copied in Swinburne's hand of works by S. T. Coleridge, Victor Hugo, and James Roxburgh MacClymont, as well as manuscripts relating to the author from Edward Thomas, Humbert Wolfe and others. The correspondence includes letters, dating from [1859] to 1908, from Swinburne to Ford Madox Brown, Robert Browning, Andrew Chatto, Edmund Gosse, William Ernest Henley, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Ann Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clement King Shorter, and others. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from [1874] to 1945, exchanged between various correspondents including Maurice Baring, Ford Madox Ford, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Theodore Watts-Dunton and others. There are letters to Swinburne from Henry Arthur Bright, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, John Payne-Collier, Tola Dorian, Harold Hodge, Robert Gordon Latham, Eden Phillpotts, André Raffalovich, Richard Herne Shepherd, Alfred Tennyson, Emilie Ashurst Venturi, Thomas Humphry Ward, Theodore Watts-Dunton, and others, dating from 1859 to 1906.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Algernon Charles Swinburne collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19123#c215977'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19123#c216071'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19123#c216298'>Portraits</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>"}
date_inclusive_start
1856
date_inclusive_end
1945
note
{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
langmaterial_code
fre
eng
keydate
1856
langmaterial
{"value"=>"Some manuscripts and correspondence in French"}
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
extent_statement
760 items
date_start
1856
date_end
1945
date_bulk_start
1866
date_bulk_end
1909

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