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    <unittitle>Harold Clurman papers</unittitle>
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      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50031831" source="naf">Clurman, Harold, 1901-1980</persname>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1922/1980" type="inclusive">1922-1980</unitdate>
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    <head> Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection is located on-site.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head> Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection has no restrictions.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Accession number--M-59.</p>  </acqinfo>
  <altformavail id="aspace_d510998436adaf5f1297709c2fea2427">
    <head>Alternate Form Available</head>
<p>Clurman, Harold Edgar notebooks are on: microfilm.</p>  </altformavail>
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    <head>Arrangement</head>
<p>Selected materials cataloged, remainder arranged.</p>  </arrangement>
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    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>Stage director and author. Clurman attended Columbia University in 1921.</p>  </bioghist>
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    <head>Existence and Location of Copies</head>
<p>Type of reproduction--Photocopies in part</p>  </altformavail>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Harold Clurman papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 05/04/89.</p>  </processinfo>
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    <head>Summary</head>
<p>Correspondence, notebooks, and photocopies of manuscripts. There are letters from Jean Dubuffet, Walter Matthau, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, and Tennessee Williams. There are also six of Clurman's notebooks with notes on theater and photocopies of typescript pages re. his book, THE FERVENT YEARS (1945).</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Terms Governing Use and Reproduction</head>
<p>Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.</p>  </userestrict>
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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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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134560" source="lcsh">Theater -- United States</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85039342" source="lcsh">Dramatists</subject>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300264354" source="aat">Notebooks</genreform>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009808" source="lcsh">Authors, American</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134614" source="lcsh">Theatrical producers and directors</subject>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79134984" source="naf">Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84034686" source="naf">Matthau, Walter</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79045521" source="naf">Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79125182" source="naf">Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79090096" source="naf">Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983</persname>
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