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      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper>H. E. (Herbert Ernest) Bates<!--Insert name of creator in DIRECT ORDER, no dates, and add a colon: --></titleproper>
        <subtitle><!-- Select: An (or A Preliminary) Inventory of His/Her/Its
          Papers/Records/Collection at the Harry Ransom Center --></subtitle>
        <author encodinganalog="245$c">Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Richard Workman<!--List archivist name/s--></author>
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        <publisher encodinganalog="260$b">Harry Ransom Center, </publisher>
        <date encodinganalog="260$c" calendar="gregorian" era="ce">2020<!-- insert year --></date>
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      <creation>Finding aid encoded by Richard Workman<!-- List encoder name/s -->, <date calendar="gregorian"
          era="ce">28 October 2020<!-- Date (date month year)EAD file created --></date>
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      <langusage>Finding aid written in <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English.</language></langusage>
      <descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)</descrules>
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      <head>Collection Summary</head>
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        <persname source="lcnaf" encodinganalog="100"
          >Bates, H. E. (Herbert Ernest), 1905-1974<!--Insert Person's name as in LC authority file (name in REVERSE ORDER); add dates if they're in our finding aid but not in LC --></persname>
        
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        >H. E. (Herbert Ernest) Bates Collection<!--Insert creator's name (DIRECT ORDER) and Papers/Records/Collection --></unittitle>

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        normal="1925/1973"
        >1925-1973, undated<!-- Insert span dates here (with bulk dates following in parenthesis). Do not tag bulk dates separately. Also put span dates in place of the 0s after 
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        countrycode="US" repositorycode="US-txauhrh" encodinganalog="099">Manuscript Collection MS-00261<!--Insert division name and collection number in the following format: XXX Collection XX-xxxx (e.g., Manuscript Collection MS-1666)-->
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      <physdesc label="Extent:" encodinganalog="300$a">
        <extent>35 document boxes (14.70 linear feet), 2 oversize folders (osf), 1 galley folder (gf)<!-- Insert # boxes (# linear feet) --></extent>
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          <corpname><subarea>Harry Ransom Center, </subarea>The University of Texas at Austin </corpname>
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        >A collection of manuscripts, including novels, short stories, plays, essays, reviews, and autobiographical works by the English author H. E. Bates. Some correspondence is also present, largely with Douglas Clayton, David Garnett, the Golden Cockerel Press, and literary agent Lawrence Pollinger among others.<!-- Enter an abstract or collection summary --></abstract>

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        <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language>
          
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      <head>Access: </head>
      <p>Open for research. <emph render="bold">This collection is fully described in the Ransom Center's onsite card
        catalog. Please contact the Center for details about content or accessibility</emph>:
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