Rudyard Kipling collection of papers

id
5419
origination
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
date statement
1879-1956 [bulk 1882-1941]
key date
1879
identifier (local_mss)
19117
org unit
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
call number
Berg Coll MSS Kipling [Text]
b-number
b15822454
total components
104
total series
2
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:05:19 UTC
updated
2022-08-18 20:56:44 UTC
status note
(missing)
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unitdate
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{"value"=>"1882-1941", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1882/1941"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Rudyard Kipling 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, notebooks, legal and financial documents, correspondence, portraits, 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"=>"Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Rudyard Kipling was a British poet, essayist, novelist, journalist, and writer of short stories.</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials is from W. T. H. Howe, Owen D. Young, and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg. There are also materials from the files of A. P. Watt & Son, Doubleday & Co., Florence Garrard, and Gustaf Roos.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, notebooks, legal and financial documents, correspondence, portraits, and pictorial works. The pictorical works include sketches by the author, some for his bookplate; by E. D. Wintle and F. C. Macrae to illustrate Kipling's works, and Florence Garrard's sketchbook. The manuscripts include holographs for Kipling's poems and stories. Holdings include typescripts with Kipling's holograph emendations of plays and letters, as well as manuscripts and typescripts related to Kipling's works by J. M. Barrie, F. L. Cowles, W. A. Fraser, Randall Jarrell, Booth Tarkington, and A. P. Watt & Son. The legal documents include royalty statements from 1912 to 1916 and an affidavit in the case of Rudyard Kipling vs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Also included are a number of notebooks containing the author's poems and short stories, two of which are dated 1882 and 1887 respectively, the remaining notebooks are undated. The correspondence include letters from 1888 to 1936 written by Kipling to Edgar Bateman, William Canton, Miss A. Clifford, Ford Madox Ford, Edmund Gosse, Ripley Hitchcock, Charles Eliot Norton, A. P. Watt & Son, and others. The correspondence also includes letters about Kipling written between 1899 and 1956 from Maude Adams to A. P. Watt & Son; from Willa Cather to Mr. Zoltan Engel; from Doubleday, Page & Co. to A. P. Watt & Son; from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the secretary of the Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights, and Composers; and from others relating to Kipling's works. There are letters to Kipling from George Cram Cook, Randolph Lewis, Lady Ebba Cecilia (Bystrom) Low, Archibald Marshall, A. P. Watt and Son, and others dating from 1879 to 1935.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Rudyard Kipling collection of papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19117#c243637'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19117#c243706'>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>"}
physloc
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date_inclusive_start
1879
date_inclusive_end
1956
note
{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
keydate
1879
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
extent_statement
1,645 items
date_start
1879
date_end
1956
date_bulk_start
1882
date_bulk_end
1941

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