Muriel Rukeyser collection of papers

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physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"ca. 2, 290 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}

unitid

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

{"value"=>"19206", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1920-1976", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/1976"}

{"value"=>"1931-1976", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1931/1976"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Muriel Rukeyser 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 manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, notebooks, financial and legal documents, certificates, sketchbooks, and pictorial works."}

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"=>"Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Muriel Rukeyser was an American poet, playwright, biographer, and writer of children's literature.</p>"}

custodhist

{"value"=>"<p>Some of the materials were previously owned by May Sarton and Louis Untermeyer.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, notebooks, financial and legal documents, certificates, sketchbooks, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include essays, articles, poems, narrations, notes and outlines of works, scripts and scenarios, and translations. The correspondence, dating from 1933 to 1976, includes letters from the author to Kay Boyle, Babette Deutsch, Alfred Kazin, May Sarton, Frances Steloff, Louis Untermeyer, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author between various correspondents, including Matthew Josephson, Monica McCall, Octavio Paz, Max Lerner, Kenneth Rexroth, Louis Untermeyer, and others. There are letters to Rukeyser from Bernice Abbott, Conrad Aiken, Elizabeth Bishop, Eleanor Clark, I. Bernard Cohen, Malcolm Cowley, Babette Deutsch, Doubleday & Co., Robert Edmund Duncan, Herbert McLean Evans, Peter S. Feibleman, Sara Bard Field, Hallie Flanagan, Hank Fuller, Horace Gregory, Robert Herring, Granville Hicks, Miriam Jasspon, James Laughlin, Ruth Lehman, Denise Levertov, Helen (Merrell) Lynd, Carson McCullers, Lenore (Guinzburg) Marshall, William Meredith, Edith (Rosenfels) Nash, Nancy Naumburg, Pierre Payne, Norman Holmes Pearson, Katherine Anne Porter, Eugene Victor Rostow, Lawrence and Myra Lyons Rukeyser, May Sarton, Unicorn Press, Louis Untermeyer, Vassar College, Alice Walker, Marie de L. Welch, John Wheelwright, Antoinette Wilson, Theodore Carl Wilson, Ella Winter, Yale University Press, Elizabeth Young, The Young Communist League of the U.S., Marya Zaturenska, and others, dating from 1930 to 1976.</p>"}

{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Muriel Rukeyser collection of papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19206#c240183'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19206#c240339'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19206#c240729'>Financial and Legal Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19206#c240755'>Pictorial Works</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

1920

date_inclusive_end

1976

note

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

langmaterial_code

spa

fre

eng

keydate

1920

langmaterial

{"value"=>"Some material in Spanish and French"}

processinfo

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

extent_statement

ca. 2, 290 items

date_start

1920

date_end

1976

date_bulk_start

1931

date_bulk_end

1976

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