- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"751 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Thackeray [Text]", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19122", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1828]-1937", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1828/1937", "certainty"=>"inferred"}
{"value"=>"1829-1864", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1829/1864"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"William Makepeace Thackeray 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, notebooks, correspondence, financial documents, portraits, pictorial works, realia, and forged manuscripts and correspondence."}
- 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"=>"Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>William Makepeace Thackeray was a British novelist, short story writer, artist and illustrator.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the material belonged to Henry W. Berg and was donated by Albert A. Berg. Additions to the holdings were made subsequently and their former owners include W. T. H. Howe, Owen D. Young, Phoenix Ingraham with Henry William Poor's bookplates; Kate Perry; Lady Caroline Stanhope, Henry Van Duzer, John A. Spoor, George Barr McCutcheon, William H. Lambert, Louis I. Haber, Henry William Poor, Roderick Terry, Anne Ritchie, Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, Tristram Coffin, and William Harris Arnold.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, correspondence, financial documents, portraits, pictorial works, realia, and forged manuscripts and correspondence. The collection includes original portraits by Samuel Laurence, John Leech, and George Robert Lewis, as well as self-portraits in pen-and-ink, water color, and pencil. Also included are pen-and-ink, pencil, and water color portraits and illustrations by Thackeray. The manuscripts include holograph poems, essays, lectures, portions of novels, notebooks, and diaries for 1845 and 1860, as well as miscellaneous manuscript materials relating to the author. The correspondence includes letters by Thackeray, from [1828]-1863, to William H. Ainsworth, Lucy Baxter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sir Henry Bulwer, Mr. Chapman, Chapman and Hall, Sir Henry Cole, George Cruikshank, Charles Dickens, Edward Fitzgerald, John Forster; to the committee of the Garrick Club, to Catherine Frances Gore, Leigh Hunt, Mrs. William Milbourne James, Sir William Knighton; to the Reverand Charles De la Pryme, to William D. Robinson, to the Reverand A. J. Scott, William Wetmore Story, Mrs. Alfred Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, and others. There are also letters, from 1846-1937, relating to the author between various correspondents including Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Horace Greeley, Charles Dickens, Sir Leslie Stephens, and others. There are letters to Thackeray from Jane O. Brookfield, the Rev. W. H. Brookfield, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Cruikshank, Charles Dickens, Edward Fitzgerald, James Hannay, Bryan Waller Procter, Alfred Tennyson, and Frances Trollope, dating from 1843 to 1863.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The William Makepeace Thackeray collection of papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19122#c254195'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19122#c254304'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19122#c254658'>Financial Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19122#c254663'>Portraits and Pictorial Works</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19122#c254860'>Realia</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-10353 [Microfilm]", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}
- date_inclusive_start
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1828
- date_inclusive_end
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1937
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- keydate
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1828
- 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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751 items
- date_start
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1828
- date_end
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1937
- date_bulk_start
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1829
- date_bulk_end
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1864