Nicolai Berezowski Papers, 1817-1940

Summary Information

At a Glance

Bib ID:	4079157 View CLIO record
Creator(s):	Berezowsky, Nicolai, 1900-1953
Title:	Nicolai Berezowski Papers, 1817-1940
Physical description:	14 linear ft (ca. 4,000 items in 26 boxes & 4 volumes).
Language(s):	In English
Access:	This collection has no restrictions. This collection is located on-site.  More information »

Arrangement

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into 5 series:

• Series I: Cataloged Correspondence
• Series II: Subject Files
• Series III: Photographs
• Series IV: Clippings
• Series V: Scores

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Description

Scope and Content

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, financial records, photographs, drawings, engravings, and printed materials of Benjamin. The personal and business papers concern Benjamin's publishing and bookselling company, his numerous benefactions, the disposal of his collections, and many printed catalogs for his company, 1883-1940. The two major correspondents are the business and financial records for the printing, binding, and extensive promotion through a network of agents of Stedman's A LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME; new ed. (New York, W.E. Benjamin, 1894). There are also letters, manuscripts, documents, and drawings of English literary figures collected by Benjamin. Among these are six letters of George Eliot, 47 letters and six manuscripts of John Ruskin, and three letters and one manuscript of Joseph Mallord Turner, with four letters relating to the artist. In addition there ten drawings and watercolors by Ruskin.

Also, 37 letters and one manuscript were removed from Benjamin's copy of Robert Langton's THE CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF CHARLES DICKENS and cataloged for this collection. One letter from Langton and 32 from others were addressed to Charles Roach Smith, a well-known antiquary of London. Several letters are concerned with numismatics (including two from John Stuart, Earl of Darnley, one each from William Henry Ashe, baron Heytesbury, and Chase Spence), but most of these letters relate to Charles Dickens: three letters from his son, Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, six from Henry Gardiner Adams, of the Mechanics' Institute of Chatham and Rochester, one each from Frederick William Fairholt, and Charles Stewart Montgomerie Lockhart, manuscript notes by John Gough Nichols, a letter from John Bowen Rowlands, one each from W.J. Taylor and Joseph Cotton Wigram, Bishop of Rochester, two from Humphrey Wood of the Mechanics' Institute, and of particular interest the two letters from Sampson Seaton, whose father was a friend of the father of the famous novelist. Many of these letters were written at the time of Dickens' death from people living in the area of Rochester and Chatham, his early childhood homes.

Series I: Cataloged Correspondence

Series II: Subject Files

Series III: Photographs

Includes professional photographs of Berezowsky with violin and snapshots of the Coolidge Quartet trip to Honolulu in 1939.

Series IV: Clippings

Series V: Scores

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Using the Collection

RBML

Access Restrictions

This collection has no restrictions.

This collection is located on-site.

Restrictions on Use

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known);Nicolai Berezowsky papers ; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries. Rare Book and Manuscript Library; machine readable finding aid created by Columbia University Libraries Digital Library Program Division

Processing Information

Cataloged 04/04/89 Christina Hilton Fenn

Machine readable finding aid generated from MARC-AMC source via XSLT conversion June 26, 2009 Finding aid written in English.

2010-01-21 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.

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Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form

Heading	CUL Archives: Portal	CUL Collections: CLIO	Nat'l / Int'l Archives: ArchiveGRID
Drawings.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Engravings.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Paintings.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Photoprints.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID

Subjects

Heading	CUL Archives: Portal	CUL Collections: CLIO	Nat'l / Int'l Archives: ArchiveGRID
Adams, Henry Gardiner.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Ashe, William Henry.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Authors, English.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Booksellers and bookselling--New York (State)--New York.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Darnley, John Stuart,--Earl of.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Dickens, Henry Fielding,--Sir.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Eliot, George, 1819-1880.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Heytesbury,--Baron.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Langton, Robert.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Lockhart, C. S. M. (Charles Stewart Montgomerie)	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Mechanics' Institute of Chatham and Rochester.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Nichols, John Gough.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Numismatics.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Phelps, Charles Henry.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Publishers and publishing--New York (State)--New York.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Rowlands, John Bowen.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Seaton, Sampson.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Smith, Charles Roach, 1807-1890.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Spence, Chase.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Taylor, W. J.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Wigram, Joseph Cotton.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Wood, Humphrey.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID

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History / Biographical Note

Biographical Note

Publisher, collector.

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