Henry Wadsworth Longfellow collection of papers

id
2709
origination
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
date statement
1826-1901 [bulk 1833-1882]
key date
1826
identifier (local_mss)
19291
org unit
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
call number
Berg Coll MSS Longfellow
b-number
b15969224
total components
177
total series
3
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:04:33 UTC
updated
2018-06-04 18:54:27 UTC
status note
(missing)
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true

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physdesc
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unitdate
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unittitle
{"value"=>"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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, correspondence, a journal entry for March 2, 1840, portraits, and pictorial works."}
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"=>"Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet, novelist, essayist, and translator.</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>Previous owners include, Tristram Coffin, [--?] Fayerweather, Frank Fletcher, John Gribbel, Edmund C. Stedman, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg, W. T. H. Howe, and Owen D. Young.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, a journal entry for March 2, 1840, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include poems and portions of poems, essays, and notes for works by the author, as well as poems relating to the author by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Richard Henry Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1826 to 1882, to William S. Appleton, Sarah Perkins Cleveland, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, James R. Osgood, William W. F. Synge, R. S. Voorhis, Walt Whitman, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from [1856?] to 1901, between various correspondents, including Eliza Callahan Cleveland, James T. Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Anne Sophia Longfellow, Samuel Longfellow, and others. There are letters to Longfellow from Louis Agassiz, Henry Russell Cleveland, Cornelius Conway Felton, Bayard Taylor, and John Greenleaf Whittier, dating from 1836 to1873.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19291#c226088'>Manuscripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19291#c226119'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19291#c226259'>Portraits and Pictorial Works</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
1826
date_inclusive_end
1901
note
{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
keydate
1826
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
extent_statement
208 items
date_start
1826
date_end
1901
date_bulk_start
1833
date_bulk_end
1882

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