Manuscripts and papers, 1899-1921.

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Manuscripts and papers, 1899-1921.

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Notebooks filled with Nelson's ideas and notes on art and poetry, as well as various other subjects, such as translations, women, liberty and democracy, and Americanization, which last shows his bitterness at not having achieved recognition as a creative artist in this country. Also included are quotations from numerous writers (including Samuel Loveman's "The triumph of anarchy," copied from the author's manuscript), with his criticisms on several of them (Stagnelius, a Swedish poet, Amy Lowell, Swinburne, Ezra Pound), on Gounod and Berlioz, on the sculptor Flaxman, and on Nietzsche. There are drafts of letters to various people, and to newspaper editors. Of particular interest is the letter to Hart Crane, ca. May 1921, on whom he had considerable influence, even though their friendship was of brief duration.

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925

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Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893

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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869

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Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909

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