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    <unittitle>Hilaire Belloc Letters to Maria Hornor Lansdale</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname authfilenumber="https://viaf.org/viaf/59113521" role="cre" source="viaf">Belloc, Hilaire (1870-1953)</persname>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1898/1937" type="inclusive">1898-1937</unitdate>
    <abstract id="a27b313c4506429f83f7b51a590c517c">Consists of selected letters and manuscripts of British author Hilaire Belloc.</abstract>
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      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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  <phystech id="305a580a8865fad16c6e4f4d2027300d">
    <head>Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements</head>
<p>For preservation reasons, original analog
and digital media may not be read or played back in the
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  <scopecontent id="e5269b7236515c85e5b8c347048626ff">
    <head>Scope and Contents</head>
<p>The collection contains 99 letters and 5 postcards by Belloc to Maria Hornor Lansdale. Also included in the collection are two poems printed for Belloc, with autograph corrections, and two typed manuscripts by Belloc on travel in Spain and in Belgium, France, and Switzerland, written as guides for Lansdale.</p>  </scopecontent>
  <arrangement id="f737d863f48c37f98efaf57cd102a8f9">
    <head>Arrangement</head>
<p>Arranged chronologically.</p>  </arrangement>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Access</head>
<p>The collection is open for research.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Use</head>
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  <acqinfo id="80069db79618f69968ff4fb0fcb6a711">
    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Acquired from the Lansdale collection.</p>  </acqinfo>
  <appraisal id="f1d3cd4609e8205eb8ce6ec73eb6c20f">
    <head>Appraisal</head>
<p>No appraisal information is available.</p>  </appraisal>
  <prefercite id="0838baa93d00ab3667741ecef6747009">
    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Hilaire Belloc Letters to Maria Hornor Lansdale, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.</p>  </processinfo>
  <bioghist>
    <note label="personal-name">Belloc, Hilaire (1870-1953)</note>
    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>A French-born writer, Hilaire Belloc became a naturalized British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific authors in England during the early twentieth century.</p>  </bioghist>
  <controlaccess>
    <subject source="lcsh">Authors, English. -- 20th century -- Correspondence</subject>
    <geogname source="lcsh">Belgium -- Description and travel. -- 20th century</geogname>
    <geogname source="lcsh">Spain -- Description and travel. -- 20th century</geogname>
    <geogname source="lcsh">Switzerland -- Description and travel. -- 20th century</geogname>
    <genreform source="aat">Letters. -- 20th century</genreform>
    <persname authfilenumber="https://viaf.org/viaf/33994880" source="viaf">Lansdale, Maria Hornor (1860)</persname>
  </controlaccess>
  <bioghist audience="internal">
    <note label="personal-name">Lansdale, Maria Hornor (1860)</note>
    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>Maria Hornor Lansdale was an American author.</p>  </bioghist>
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normal="1914/1914" type="inclusive">1914</unitdate><container altrender="scarcpxm" encodinganalog="Standard manuscript" id="bd03b53083231d324377d59c47bfc0e6" label="Mixed Materials [32101037594130]" type="box">1</container><container id="5f80905997a279ba5838cf5f7a51e545" parent="aspace_bd03b53083231d324377d59c47bfc0e6" type="folder">5</container></did></c><c id="C0142_c006" level="file"><did><unittitle>Letters to Maria Lansdale VI</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/5/archival_objects/846913</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 folder</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1915/1915" type="inclusive">1915</unitdate><container altrender="scarcpxm" encodinganalog="Standard manuscript" id="b459894e39520bba119eb742ccca07ca" label="Mixed Materials [32101037594130]" type="box">1</container><container id="16bef65d49ae1443877ed10051f9f8c9" parent="aspace_b459894e39520bba119eb742ccca07ca" 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