- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"314 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Spender", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19213", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1928]-1993", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1928/1993", "certainty"=>"inferred"}
{"value"=>"1931-1967", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1931/1967"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Stephen Spender 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, notebooks dating from 1932 to 1966, financial documents, 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"=>"Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Stephen Spender was a British essayist, literary critic, playwright, poet, and translator.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Former owners include Caroline Newton, Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, William Plomer, Stephen Winsten, and the Group Theatre Archive.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, notebooks dating from 1932 to 1966, financial documents, and portraits. The manuscripts and typescripts include stories, poems, notes for work, and essays, as well as manuscripts transcribed by Spender, and typescripts with Spender's manuscript emendations. There is correspondence, dating from 1931 to 1973, from the author to W. H. Auden, Kenneth Burke, Rupert Doone, Anne Fremantle, Howard Griffin, Geoffrey Grigson, Randall Jarrell, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Philip O'Connor, Michael Roberts, Edward Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell, Ruth Witt-Diamant, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from [ca. 1937] to 1975, between various correspondents including Christopher Isherwood, Henry Miller, Herbert Mitgang, Dylan Thomas, Hugh Walpole, Virginia Woolf, and others. There are letters to Spender from W. H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Peter H. Salus, Edith Sitwell, and the editors, John Bagguley and Cecil Woolf, dating from [1928] to [1973].</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Stephen Spender collection of papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19213#c247094'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19213#c247136'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19213#c247184'>Financial Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19213#c247186'>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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1928
- date_inclusive_end
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1993
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- keydate
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1928
- 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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314 items
- date_start
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1928
- date_end
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1993
- date_bulk_start
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1931
- date_bulk_end
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1967