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Ellin Berlin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 90-87
Abstract Materials relating to the research and preparation of Berlin's novel Silver Platter, about her grandmother Louise Mackay, the wife of one of the Comstock's Bonanza Kings, John Mackay. Berlin conducted her research from approximately 1947 through the publication of the book in 1957. Includes research notes and correspondence; early drafts and proofs of the novel; originals and copies of 19th and early 20th century newspapers, pamphlets and ephemera, mainly...
Dates: 1833-1973; Majority of material found within 1948-1957
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

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  • Repository: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department X
  • Subject: Authors, American -- 20th century X
  • Subject: Authors, American -- 20th century X
  • Subject: Nevada -- Fiction X
  • Subject: California -- Newspapers X