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Nicolai Berezowski Papers,
1817-1940
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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Summary Information
At a Glance
Bib ID: | 4079157 View CLIO record |
Creator(s): | Berezowsky, Nicolai, 1900-1953 |
Title: | Nicolai Berezowski Papers,
1817-1940
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Physical description: | 14 linear ft (ca. 4,000 items in 26 boxes & 4 volumes).
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Language(s): | In English
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Arrangement
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into 5 series:
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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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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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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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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. All links open new windows.
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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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Biographical Note
Publisher, collector.
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