James B. Pinker and Son collection of papers

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physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"ca. 18,300 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}

unitid

{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Pinker (agency)", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"19109", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1893-1940", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1893/1940"}

date_inclusive_start

1893

date_inclusive_end

1940

keydate

1893

unittitle

{"value"=>"James B. Pinker and Son 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 typescripts and manuscripts, financial documents, and correspondence"}

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"=>"James B. Pinker and Son", "type"=>"corpname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>James B. Pinker and Son was a British literary agency in London.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts and manuscripts, financial documents, and correspondence. The bulk of the collection is correspondence from miscellaneous and unidentified authors to the agency, from 1893-1925, letters on miscellaneous business, and letters between various individuals including William Morris Colles, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Henry James, and Charles Morgan, which came with the correspondence from the agency, some of which relate to it. There are letters to the agency by Richard Aldington, Georges Aubry, Maurice Baring, Arnold Bennett; David William, James, and Muirhead Bone; Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Joseph Conrad, Richard Curle, Walter De la Mare, J. M. Dent & Sons, Doubleday, Page & Co., St. John Greer Ervine, Ford Madox Ford, Rose Fyleman, Walter Lionel George, Perceval Gibbon, Algernon Gissing, George Gissing, Louis Golding, Robert Graves, Harper & Bros., Basil Macdonald Hastings, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Henham, Laurence Housman, Violet Hunt, Aldous Huxley, William W. Jacobs, Alfred A. Knopf, D. H. Lawrence, Librairie Gallimard, Marie Adelaide Lowndes, Edith J. Lyttelton, Compton Mackenzie, Archibald Marshall, Methuen & Co. Ltd., A. A. Milne, Charles Morgan, Robert Nichols, Edward P. Oppenheim, Barry Pain, Laura Riding, Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie, Upton Sinclair, G. B. Stern, George S. Street, Frank Swinnerton, Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, Hugh Walpole, Withers, Bensons, Birkett & Davies, P. G. Wodehouse, Leonard Woolf, Eric B. Young, Arnold Zweig, and others, dating from 1898 to 1940.</p>"}

{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The James B. Pinker and Son collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19109#c229913'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19109#c229921'>Financial and Legal Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19109#c229934'>Correspondence</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 including William Young, and through a bequest by John D. Gordan.</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>"}

custodhist

{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources including the John D. Gordan bequest.</p>"}

altformavail

{"value"=>"<p>letters written by various publishers to the firm of James B. Pinker and Son as literary agent for Henry James 1900-1930 available on microfilm as part of the James B. Pinker and Son collection; service copy classmark: *Z-10385</p>"}

note

{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}

processinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}

extent_statement

ca. 18,300 items

date_start

1893

date_end

1940

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1. Manuscripts and Typescripts [7/1]
2. Financial and Legal Documents [2/1]
3. Correspondence [3/1]