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    <unittitle>Richard P. Blackmur manuscripts</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80013420" source="naf">Blackmur, R. P (Richard P.), 1904-1965</persname>
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      <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language>
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    <physdesc altrender="whole">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 linear feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">2 boxes</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1922/1931" type="inclusive">1922-1931</unitdate>
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    <head>Arrangement</head>
<p>Cataloged.</p>  </arrangement>
  <accessrestrict id="aspace_850a2259e1e23ecf868011dcebe82a34">
    <head> Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection is located on-site.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Summary</head>
<p>Uncataloged novels, plays, and short stories by Blackmur. There are photographs mounted in each of the five volumes. The collection contains THE GREATER TORMENT (novel), KING PANDAR (novel), PLAYS ("The conqueror" "Follow the leader" "Hero" and "The taking of Avis"), SHORT STORIES (33 short stories).</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Richard P. Blackmur manuscripts; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
  <altformavail id="aspace_bf166d3b3c9753a09dde032a2acc5ba5">
    <head>Reproduction Note</head>
<p>Type of reproduction--Photocopies</p>  </altformavail>
  <originalsloc id="aspace_d41f8656b7c4470734ca66d7652e260d">
    <head>Location of Originals Note</head>
<p>Holder of originals: Originals are at Princeton University.</p>  </originalsloc>
  <userestrict id="aspace_ceee08b272359c0c81d04693f4173853">
    <head>Terms Governing Use and Reproduction</head>
<p>Permission to reproduce in whole or in part, in any manner, must be obtained from. Princeton University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, Princeton, N.J. 08540.</p>  </userestrict>
  <userestrict id="aspace_f8a5ee3acb7747a716a4ffceafe8a351">
    <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>
  <acqinfo id="aspace_254ad78e427ba82e79e54063e96b1f7b">
    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Source of acquisition--Mildred Andrews Fund via Princeton University Library. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/--/82. Accession number--M82-12.</p>  </acqinfo>
  <bioghist id="aspace_36749413aa92efc6d59adc4c0248d49a">
    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>American literary critic, author, professor of English at Princeton University from 1951.</p>  </bioghist>
  <acqinfo id="aspace_915e4b40f2a1920d7d57f96affea6bb6">
    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Gift of the Mildred Andrews Fund via Princeton University Library, 1982.</p>  </acqinfo>
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    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 04/05/89.</p>  </processinfo>
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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>
  <controlaccess>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004341" source="lcsh">American literature -- 20th century</subject>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300127104" source="aat">Photographic prints</genreform>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028378" source="lcsh">College teachers</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009808" source="lcsh">Authors, American</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034154" source="lcsh">Critics</subject>
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