- physdesc
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- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Whittier", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19188", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1833-1904", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1833/1904"}
{"value"=>"1851-1892", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1851/1892"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"John Greenleaf Whittier 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 that consists of manuscripts and correspondence."}
- 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"=>"Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>John Greenleaf Whittier was an American poet, essayist, journalist, politician, and writer of hymns and antislavery literature.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials were previously owned by W. T. H. Howe, Owen D. Young, and Bliss Perry.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p> This is a synthetic collection that consists of manuscripts and correspondence. The manuscripts comprise poems and a holograph review of Celia Thaxter's \"Wreck of the Pocahontas\", as well as manuscripts relating to the author by J. R. Lowell, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and Elizabeth H. Whittier. The correspondence includes letters written by the author, dating from 1833 to 1892, to William Richardson Dempster, Thomas Donaldson, James T. Fields, Horace Greeley, Lucy Larcom, James R. Osgood, Bayard Taylor, Celia Thaxter, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1889 to 1904, between various correspondents, including Z. S. Davis, Jacob Chester Chamberlain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lucy Larcom, George Riker, Susan Hayes Ward, and Walt Whitman. There are letters to Whittier from Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Charles Sumner, and Bayard Taylor, dating from 1856 to 1890.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The John Greenleaf Whittier collection of papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19188#c231965'>Manuscripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19188#c231990'>Correspondence</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>"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1833
- date_inclusive_end
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1904
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- keydate
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1833
- 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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111 items
- date_start
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1833
- date_end
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1904
- date_bulk_start
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1851
- date_bulk_end
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1892