- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"716 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Walpole", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19130", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1909-1962", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1909/1962"}
{"value"=>"1913-1937", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1913/1937"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Sir Hugh Walpole 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, typescripts, correspondence, and portraits."}
- 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"=>"Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Sir Hugh Walpole was a British novelist, short story writer, and literary critic.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Former owners include Carl Van Vechten, William Maxwell, Gilbert H. Montague, and W. T. H. Howe.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, and portraits. The collection includes holographs of articles, essays, and poems, as well as essays and poems relating to Walpole in manuscript and typescript by various authors including Sinclair Lewis, Humbert Wolfe and others. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence from the author, dating from 1909 to 1941, to Cecil Day-Lewis, Jack Elliot, the Golden Cockerell Press, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, James B. Pinker, Martin Secker, Carl Van Vechten, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, and others; as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1913 to 1962, between various correspondents, including Harold Cheevers, Carl Van Vechten, W. S. Maugham, Rebecca West, and others. There are letters to Walpole from Louis Bromfield, Jo Davidson, Ellen Glasgow, the Golden Cockerell Press, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Don Marquis, Christopher Morley, W. L. Phelps, Frederic Prokosch, Gene Tunney, Carl Van Vechten, and others, dating from 1919 to 1940.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Sir Hugh Walpole collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19130#c245255'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19130#c245276'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19130#c245473'>Portraits</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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1909
- date_inclusive_end
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1962
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- keydate
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1909
- 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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716 items
- date_start
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1909
- date_end
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1962
- date_bulk_start
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1913
- date_bulk_end
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1937