- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"258 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Barham", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19288", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1798?]-1930", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1798/1930", "certainty"=>"questionable"}
{"value"=>"1827?-1845", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1827/1845", "certainty"=>"questionable"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Richard Harris Barham 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, correspondence, an undated galley proof, notebooks and commonplace books dating from [1798?] through 1845, financial 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"=>"Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788-1845", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Richard Harris Barham was an English novelist, literary and drama critic, lecturer, and short-story writer. He wrote under the pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Previous owners include J. Barton Townsend, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg, W. T. H. Howe, and Owen D. Young. Some materials were a gift of Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Hyde in honor of Dr. Albert A. Berg.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p> This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, an undated galley proof, notebooks and commonplace books dating from [1798?] through 1845, financial documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include poems, directions for illustrating various works, portions of novels, essays, and translations, as well as a poem, \"[The Devil's Walk?]\", attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and poems by George Raymond with manuscript notes by Barham. The correspondence includes letters from Barnham, dating from 1828 to 1845, to Richard Bentley, Dr. Thomas Hume, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from [1839?] to 1930, between various correspondents, including Richard Bentley, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Michael Sadleir, Gabriel Wells, and others. There are letters to the author by William Henry Ainsworth, Richard Bentley, George Cruikshank, Edward Raleigh Moran, William Makepeace Thackeray, and others, dating from 1829 to 1843.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Richard Harris Barham collection of papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19288#c242556'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19288#c242611'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19288#c242813'>Financial Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19288#c242815'>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.</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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1798
- date_inclusive_end
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1930
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- keydate
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1798
- 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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258 items
- date_start
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1798
- date_end
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1930
- date_bulk_start
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1827
- date_bulk_end
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1845