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    <unittitle>Kira Vasil'evna Hickox Papers</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname source="ingest">Hickox, Kira Vasilévna</persname>
    </origination>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname source="ingest">Ship, Eduard</persname>
    </origination>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80112899" source="naf">Kumming, G. F.</persname>
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    <unitid>BAR Gen Ms Coll/Hickox</unitid>
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      <language langcode="rus" scriptcode="Latn">Russian</language>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">6 items</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">6 items</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1921/1974" type="inclusive">1921-1974</unitdate>
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    <head>Summary</head>
<p>The papers include a 1921 letter from Hickox's brother Eduard Ship in Petrograd to their last sister Marit︠s︡a in Tallinn concerning the fate of various family members after the Revolution. There are also three typescripts of Georgiĭ Kumming, one, entitled "Tri netochnosti", is an article by Kumming which questions various facts in the Bible, the other two are his Russian translations of German works on the Revelations of St. John and on the correspondence between Christ and Abgar Ukkam.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Location of Originals Note</head>
<p>Bakhmeteff Archive. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Columbia University.</p>  </originalsloc>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Papers: Source of acquisition--K. V. Hickox. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1974.</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>Papers Accessioned 1974.</p>  </processinfo>
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    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Papers Processed 05/--/79.</p>  </processinfo>
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    <head>Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection is located on-site.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Accruals</head>
<p>Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.</p>  </accruals>
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    <occupation authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013830" source="lcsh">Biblical scholars</occupation>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125808" source="lcsh">Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125850" source="lcsh">Soviet Union -- Religion</geogname>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300048715" source="aat">Articles</genreform>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300026291" source="aat">Essays</genreform>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300026879" source="aat">Letters (correspondence)</genreform>
    <persname source="lcsh">Ship, Marit︠s︡a</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82042325" source="naf">Jesus Christ (Spirit)</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008089409" source="naf">John, the Baptist, Saint (Spirit)</persname>
    <persname source="lcsh">Ukkam, Abgar</persname>
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