- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"952 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Masefield", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19110", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1894-[1966", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1894/1966", "certainty"=>"inferred"}
{"value"=>"1902-1956", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1902/1956"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"John Masefield 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 consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, a diary for 1894, an undated notebook, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works."}
- 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"=>"Masefield, John, 1878-1967", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>John Masefield was a British poet, novelist, essayist and playwright.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials is from W. T. H. Howe and from the estate of Gerald D. McDonald. Other materials were acquired with Masefield's correspondence with Elizabeth Robins and with Lady Gregory's papers.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p> This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, a diary for 1894, an undated notebook, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include holographs of stories, poems and drafts of poems, plays and play synopses, and autobiographical notes. The typescripts include poems and essays. There is an undated water color sketch of the author by Jack B. Yeats. The correspondence includes letters, from 1901 to [1966], from the author to Leonard Clark, Marilla Waite Freeman, Lady Gregory, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, his typist Ann O'Connor, Grant Richards, Elizabeth Robins, William Butler Yeats, and others. There are also letters, from [1902] to [1955], from Jack Butler Yeats to Ria Mooney, and between various correspondents relating to, or mentioning, the author. There are letters to the author from John Galsworthy, Elizabeth Robins, and others, dating from 1909 to 1910.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The John Masefield collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19110#c232111'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19110#c232157'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19110#c232249'>Portraits and Pictorial Works</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. His \"Ballades of Cold Corpses\" was a gift of Sally and Lew David Feldman in memory of John Dozier Gordan.</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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1894
- date_inclusive_end
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1966
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- keydate
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1894
- 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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952 items
- date_start
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1894
- date_end
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1966
- date_bulk_start
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1902
- date_bulk_end
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1956