- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"101 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Meredith", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19252", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1941-1973", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1941/1973"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1941
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1973
- keydate
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1941
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"William Meredith 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, and legal documents."}
- 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"=>"Meredith, William, 1919-", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>William Meredith was an American poet, literary critic, librettist, and translator.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Previous owners include Mary von Schrader Jarrell and Muriel Rukeyser.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, and legal documents. The manuscripts and typescripts include poems by the author, as well as manuscript transcriptions of Robert Lowell's translations of the works of Victor Hugo and Boris Pasternak. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1941 to 1973, to W. H. Auden, Babette Deutsch, Randall Jarrell, Chester Kallman, Samuel Menashe, Muriel Rukeyser, Peter Salus, and others, as well as a letter, dated 1969, from Chester Kallman to James Merrill relating to the author. There are letters to Meredith from W. H. Auden, John Berryman, T. S. Eliot, Chester Kallman, and Peter Salus, dating from [1955] to 1972.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The William Meredith collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19252#c254904'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19252#c254924'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19252#c254942'>Legal Documents</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>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- 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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101 items
- date_start
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1941
- date_end
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1973