- physdesc
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- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Nabokov", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19126", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1918-1987", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1918/1987"}
{"value"=>"1934-1975", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1934/1975"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Vladimir Nabokov 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"=>"The collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, diaries for 1941 through 1977, notebooks, 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"=>"Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian and American novelist, poet, short-story writer, lecturer, and literary critic.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection comprises the papers of the author, as well as other minor acquisitions from various sources including Andrew Field and Kay Boyle.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, diaries for 1941 through 1977, notebooks, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include holographs, photocopies, drafts, and setting copies of novels, short stories, plays, poems, interviews, lectures, notes toward works, essays, and criticism in English, Russian, French, Italian, and Polish. There are also manuscripts and typescripts of works relating to the author and his works. There is correspondence by the author, dating from [1919]-1977, to Mark Aleksandrovich Aldanov, Elia Kazan, Sergei Makovsky, his mother Elena Ivanovna Nabokov, his wife Véra Nabokov, Gleb Struve, Edmund Wilson, the Bollingen Foundation, the Chekhov Publishing House, the Bureau littéraire D. Clairouin, Cornell University, Doubleday & Co. Publishers, the Librarie Gallimard, Harper & Bros. Publishers, Henry Holt & Co. Publishers, McGraw-Hill Inc., New Directions Publishers, The New Yorker Magazine, G. P. Putnam's Sons Publishers, the Viking Press, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Ltd., and others. Many of these are accompanied by letters to the author from the correspondents and between the correspondents and the author's wife Véra Nabokov. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from 1944 to 1980, between various correspondents including Véra Nabokov, Matthew Bruccoli, Edmund Wilson, George Plimpton, and Prins & Prins Literary Agents and others.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Vladimir Nabokov papers are arranged in six series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19126#c248678'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19126#c250458'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19126#c250998'>Legal Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19126#c251000'>Musical Scores</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19126#c251004'>Portraits and Pictorial Works</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19126#c251066'>Clippings</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>Please note that all unpublished Russian language material, including diaries, written by Vladimir Nabokov, all Russian language correspondence between Vladimir, Vera, Elena, and Dmitri Nabokov, and all Elena Nabokov's unpublished albums are sealed until further notice.</p> <p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</p>"}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>Most material available on microfilm. Please contact the Berg Collection.</p>"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1918
- date_inclusive_end
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1987
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- langmaterial_code
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eng
rus
fre
pol
ger
ita
- keydate
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1918
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Stephen G. Crook; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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15,254 items
- date_start
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1918
- date_end
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1987
- date_bulk_start
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1934
- date_bulk_end
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1975