- physdesc
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- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Hardy [Text]", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19172", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1870-1964", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1870/1964"}
{"value"=>"1870-1928", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1870/1928"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Thomas Hardy 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, 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"=>"Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Thomas Hardy was a British writer of novels, short stories, plays (including historical dramas), poetry, and essays.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials is from W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. These and other materials were previously owned by Howard Bliss, Frank Fletcher, Jerome Kern, Sydney Cockerell, and Clement K. Shorter. The proof of the photogravure portrait photograph of Hardy by Alvin Langdon Coburn is a gift of David Holmes.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence from, to, and about the author, financial and legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include stories, essays, poems, drafts of novels, and press clippings. The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1872 to 1926, from the author to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, William Morris Colles, Edmund Gosse, Lady Gregory, Bret Harte, John Hartman Morgan, John Middleton Murray, Clement King Shorter, W. Tinsley, Arthur Tomson, Virginia Woolf, and others. Also included are letters relating to the author, dating from 1905 to 1964, between various correspondents including Arnold Bennett, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Lascelles Abercrombie, Siegfried Sassoon, Edith Sitwell, Rebecca West, Geoffrey Grigson, William Butler Yeats, and A. P. Watt & Son. There are letters to Hardy from William Morris Colles, George Du Maurier, John Galsworthy, Edward Howard Marsh, Leslie Stephen, Anthony Trollope, and others, dating from 1875 through 1919.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Thomas Hardy collection of papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19172#c247531'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19172#c247551'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19172#c247687'>Financial and Legal Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19172#c247693'>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>"}
- physloc
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{"value"=>"*Z-10347 [Microfilm]", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}
- date_inclusive_start
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1870
- date_inclusive_end
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1964
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- keydate
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1870
- 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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343 items
- date_start
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1870
- date_end
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1964
- date_bulk_start
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1870
- date_bulk_end
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1928