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- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Harte", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19238", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1860-1929", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1860/1929"}
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1860
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1929
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1860
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Bret Harte 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, and correspondence, as well as a photograph portrait."}
- 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"=>"Harte, Bret, 1836-1902", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Bret Harte was an American novelist, poet, literary critic, playwright, and journalist.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Previous owners include W. T. H. Howe, Thomas Edgar Pemberton, Yolande Van de Velde, Owen D. Young, and A. P. Watt and Son.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts and correspondence, as well as a photograph portrait. The manuscripts and typescripts include portions of stories, reviews, plays, poems, and a statement by M. V. T. Lawrence relating to the author. The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1870 to 1901, from the author to May Pemberton, Thomas Edgar Pemberton, the literary agency A. P. Watt and Son, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1885 to 1886, between various correspondents, including Charles Francois Gounoud, Yolande Van de Velde, A. P. Watt and Son, and others. There are letters written to Harte from Thomas Hardy, William Ingram for The Illustrated London News, and A. P. Watt and Son, dating from 1879 to 1891.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Bret Harte collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19238#c218226'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19238#c218239'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19238#c218292'>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>"}
- 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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90 items
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1860
- date_end
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1929