John Middleton Murry collection of papers

id
3339
origination
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957
date statement
1911?-1962
key date
1911
identifier (local_mss)
19306
org unit
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
call number
Berg Coll MSS Murry
b-number
b15970382
total components
139
total series
2
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:04:44 UTC
updated
2019-05-24 17:18:50 UTC
status note
(missing)
Display Aeon link
true

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physdesc
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unitid
{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Murry", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19306", "type"=>"local_mss"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"1911?]-1962", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"questionable", "normal"=>"1911/1962"}
date_inclusive_start
1911
date_inclusive_end
1962
keydate
1911
unittitle
{"value"=>"John Middleton Murry 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 correspondence and one typescript."}
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"=>"Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>John Middleton Murry, the husband of Katherine Mansfield, was an English biographer, literary critic, essayist, novelist, playwright, and poet.</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>Murry was the previous owner of Banford's typescript.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of a typescript and correspondence by and about the author. The undated typescript is by Frederick Victor Banford. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from [1911?] to 1952, to Anne Fremantle, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Thomas Moult, George Orwell, A. W. Votier, Humbert Wolfe, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1928 to 1962, between various correspondents including Edmund C. Blunden, T. S. Eliot, Laurence Housman, Aldous Huxley, Frank Alfred Lea, Eric Pinker, Max Plowman, Sir Richard Rees, Michael Sadleir, Frank Swinnerton, Henry Williamson, and others. There are letters to Murry from Arnold Bennett, Robert Bridges, Joyce Cary, Walter De la Mare, Georges Duhamel, T. S. Eliot, Havelock Ellis, M. Buxton Forman, W. W. Gibson, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Edward Howard Marsh, George Orwell, Countess Mary Russell, Lytton Strachey, Hugh Walpole, Virginia Woolf, and others, dating from 1912 to 1956.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The John Middleton Murry collection of papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19306#c232262'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19306#c232399'>Typescripts</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. The letter to Eric Pinker was a bequest of 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>"}
note
{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
langmaterial_code
fre
eng
langmaterial
{"value"=>"Some material in French"}
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
extent_statement
432 items
date_start
1911
date_end
1962

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