- physdesc
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>".5 linear foot (1 box)"}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"MssCol 837", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"837", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1917-1945", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1917/1945"}
{"value"=>"1920-1941", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1920/1941"}
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1917
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1945
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1917
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Jane Dransfield papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span>. <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Collection consists of correspondence, lecture notes and printed matter relating to Dransfield's career as a writer and lecturer. Correspondence is with actors, authors, stage directors and producers, theatre groups, publishers, and literary agents. Printed matter includes programs, brochures and ephemera."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Jane Dransfield Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.</p>"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Jane Dransfield (1875-1957) was a playwright and lecturer on the theater. Her plays included <span class=\"emph\">The Lost Pleaid,</span><span class=\"emph\">Blood O' Kings,</span><span class=\"emph\">Joe,</span><span class=\"emph\">The Romance of Melrose Hall,</span>and <span class=\"emph\">The White Window.</span> A book of her poetry, <span class=\"emph\">Marks Upon a Stone,</span> was published in 1940. Dransfield also wrote theater reviews and was active in several literary societies. At one point she served as an officer on the Drama Committee for the Poetry Society of America.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection includes correspondence with authors, producers, theater groups, and literary agents, lecture notes, programs, promotional brochures, and ephemera relating to <span class=\"persname\">Dransfield's</span> career as a writer and lecturer. <span class=\"persname\">Dransfield</span> corresponded with <span class=\"persname\">George Arliss</span>, <span class=\"persname\">David Belasco</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Gustav Blum</span>, <span class=\"persname\">James Decker</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Ford Madox Ford</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Theresa Helburn</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Edna St. Vincent Milay</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Harriet Monroe</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Edwin Milton Royle</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Georgia O'Keeffe</span>,<span class=\"persname\">Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Stuart Walker</span>, and <span class=\"persname\">Stark Young</span>.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Jane Dransfield papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/837#c174502'>Lecture notes, printed material, ephemera</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/837#c174503'>Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1921-1931</div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Joseph Mansfield; transferred from NYPL Theatre Division, <date>October 23, 1959;</date><date>March 17, 1961;</date><date>February, 1962</date></p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Dransfield, Jane, 1875-", "type"=>"persname"}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Francesca Pitaro; machine readable finding aid created by Chatham Ewing.</p>"}
- date_start
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1917
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1945
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1920
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1941