Authors Club collection

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unitid

{"value"=>"MssCol 161", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"161", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Authors Club collection"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1712-1929", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1712/1929"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 linear foot (1 box)"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1712

date_inclusive_end

1929

origination

{"value"=>"Authors Club (New York, N.Y.)", "type"=>"corpname", "role"=>"Collector", "role_code"=>"col"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>The Authors Club of New York was founded in 1882. Members included Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen Crane, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, and Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The club was disbanded and its assets were turned over to the New York Public Library in 1973.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Collection consists of negative photostats of materials collected by the Authors Club of New York. Papers include correspondence, poems, speeches, essays, documents, and photographs of American and European (mostly British) authors, historians and public figures.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"accession_number"=>"MSS nd"}

langmaterial_code

fre

ger

eng

keydate

1712

langmaterial

{"value"=>"Some letters in French and German"}

prefercite

{"value"=>"Authors Club collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"The Authors Club of New York was founded in 1882. Members included Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen Crane, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, and Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The club was disbanded and its assets were turned over to the New York Public Library in 1973. Collection consists of negative photostats of materials collected by the Authors Club of New York. Papers include correspondence, poems, speeches, essays, documents, and photographs of American and European (mostly British) authors, historians and public figures.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

1 linear foot (1 box)

date_start

1712

date_end

1929

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