Kenneth Koch collection of papers, 1932-2007 (bulk, 1973-2002)

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{"value"=>"23011", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Berg Coll Koch MSS 1932-2007", "type"=>"local_call"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Kenneth Koch collection of papers, 1932-2007 (bulk, 1973-2002)"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"85 linear feet (206 manuscript boxes)"}]}

repository

{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</span><div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}

physloc

{"value"=>"Berg Coll Koch MSS 1932-2007"}

prefercite

{"value"=>"<p>Kenneth Koch collection of papers, 1932-2007 (bulk, 1973-2002), Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library</p>"}

origination

{"value"=>"Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002", "type"=>"persname"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Purchase, Karen Koch, November 2008</p>"}

{"value"=>"<p>Boxes 133-136 are currently unavailable pending digitization.</p>"}

note

{"value"=>"Organized into 7 Series: Series 1: Works by Kenneth Koch ; Series 2: Correspondence ; Series 3: Personal and professional documents and effects ; Series 4: Reviews and critical works on Koch ; Series 5: Contributions to periodicals and musical settings not in published form ; Series 6: Works by others ; Series 7: Koch's Working Folders"}

{"value"=>"The Kenneth Koch Collection of Papers spans the years 1932 to 2007, with the bulk dated 1973 to 2002; 1932 is the date of the earliest text item, but the collection contains several photographs of an earlier date, as described in the finding aid"}

{"value"=>"Also housed in the Berg Collection are the Kenneth Koch Papers, ca. 1939-1995 (http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19344), and the 5-item Kenneth Koch Collection of Papers [1974]-1979 (http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19190); see the collection-level records, with links to the finding aids, in the NYPL on-line catalog, or go to the NYPL Manuscripts and Archives portal, accessible through the RESEARCH option on NYPL's homepage"}

{"value"=>"Contains material from the entirety of Kenneth Koch's career, but is particularly strong in his later poetry and in his unpublished poetry"}

{"value"=>"The collection of papers comprises: 78 boxes of poetry ; 21 boxes of writing about poetry and teaching poetry ; 15 boxes of correspondence ; 9 boxes of comics ; 7 boxes of drama ; and 4 boxes of fiction"}

{"value"=>"With interviews, notebooks and papers, contracts, permission and royalty statements, audiovisual material, photographs, and a board-game"}

{"value"=>"Contains materials in English, French and Italian; Catalan, Chinese, Czech, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Icelandic, Japanese, Malagasy, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish"}

{"value"=>"Acquired from Karen Koch through Glenn Horowitz, in November 2008"}

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