- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"201 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Stevenson", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19178", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1873]-[1944", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1873/1944", "certainty"=>"inferred"}
{"value"=>"1881-1917", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1881/1917"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Robert Louis Stevenson 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 and typescripts, correspondence, undated notebooks, financial and 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"=>"Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials is from W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. Also present are materials from Thomas Cabel, Arthur Lee, Sidney Moody, and from the files of the American Play Co.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, undated notebooks, financial and legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include a number of holograph poems and incomplete or unfinished holographs of stories and novels. Also present are manuscripts and emended typescripts by Fredson Bowers, Clayton Meeker Hamilton, John Steuart, and Vladimir Nabokov. The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1874 to 1894 from the author to J. M. Barrie, Edmund Gosse, Clement King Shorter, Stevenson's mother Margaret Balfour Stevenson, and others. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from [1873] to 1944, between various correspondents including W. K. Bixby, Sidney Colvin, Edmund Gosse, Charles John Guthrie, Clayton Meeker Hamilton, George Moore, Christopher D. Morley, and others. There are letters to Stevenson from George Meredith and from A. P. Watt & Son., dating from 1878 to 1894.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Robert Louis Stevenson collection of papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19178#c243051'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19178#c243091'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19178#c243174'>Financial and Legal Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19178#c243181'>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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1873
- date_inclusive_end
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1944
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- keydate
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1873
- 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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201 items
- date_start
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1873
- date_end
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1944
- date_bulk_start
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1881
- date_bulk_end
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1917