A. P. Watt and Son records

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physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"ca. 2,468 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}

unitid

{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Watt", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"19277", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1861-1971", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1861/1971"}

{"value"=>"1880-1949", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1880/1949"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Records"}

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, manuscripts, correspondence, and legal and financial documents."}

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"=>"A. P. Watt and Son", "type"=>"corpname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>A. P. Watt and Son is a British literary agency. It was founded in 1875 by Alexander Pollock Watt.</p>"}

custodhist

{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials were received from the files of A. P. Watt and Son.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts, manuscripts, correspondence, and legal and financial documents. The typescripts and manuscript consist of memoranda and miscellaneous items relating to Marie Corelli, Rudyard Kipling, William Somerset Maugham, and Herbert George Wells. The correspondence consists of letters from the firm, dating from 1879 to 1971, to Wystan Hugh Auden, Marie Corelli, Charles Garvice, Harold Paget, Michael Roberts, Bertha Vyver, H. G. Wells, the publishing firm Doubleday & Co., the literary agency of Field, Roscoe & Co., and others, as well as an undated letter relating to the firm from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Meyrick Jones, and letters drafted for A. P. Watt and Son by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, dated 1887. There are letters to A. P. Watt and Son from Maude Adams, J. W. Arrowsmith (Bristol, England), T. Foster Barham, Benn (Ernest) Ltd., Sir Walter Besant, John Buchan, Cassell & Co., Ernest V. Chandler, Marie Corelli, Doubleday, Page & Co., A. C. Doyle, Lady Jean (Leckie) Doyle, Louis Fabulet, Field, Roscoe & Co., William Hooker Gillette, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, William Heinemann Ltd., Edward Jenkins, Caroline (Balestier) Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, James Stanley Little, Low (Sampson) Marston & Co., H. L. Lucoque, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Maffey & Brennall, W. S. Maugham, A. A. Milne, David Christie Murray, Paget Literary Agency, Paramount Pictures, William Dundas Scott-Moncrieff, Lucienne Southgate, Tillotson & Son, Amy Catherine (Robbins) Wells, H. G. Wells, Marjorie (Craig) Wells, W. B. Yeats, and others, dating from 1878 to 1971.</p>"}

{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The A. P. Watt and Son records are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19277#c214765'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19277#c214772'>Financial and Legal Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19277#c214784'>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.</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>"}

date_inclusive_start

1861

date_inclusive_end

1971

note

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

keydate

1861

processinfo

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

extent_statement

ca. 2,468 items

date_start

1861

date_end

1971

date_bulk_start

1880

date_bulk_end

1949

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1. Manuscripts and Typescripts [6/1]
2. Financial and Legal Documents [2/2]
3. Correspondence [4/2]