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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Bill Nye papers, 1882-1902</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Nye, Bill</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1850-1896</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  </name>
  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>50</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence and typewritten transcripts of correspondence, drawings, epigrams, and other papers reflecting Nye's career as a humorist and author.  Includes letters to his agent James B. Pond and to James Whitcomb Riley and others pertaining to life on the lyceum circuit and to contemporary literary and political figures including Samuel Langhorne Clemens and James A. Garfield.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Author and humorist.  Full name: Edgar Wilson Nye.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garfield, James A. (James Abram)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1881</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Twain, Mark</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1910</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pond, James B. (James Burton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1903</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Riley, James Whitcomb</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1916</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American wit and humor</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Lyceums</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Authors</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Humorists</occupation>
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  <identifier type="lccn">mm 96006347</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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    <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">970224</recordCreationDate>
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