The Inventory of the Truman Nelson Collection #1081 Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
Nels on, Truman #1081
1930s - 1987 Gift of Garrison Nelson, July, Aug., Oct., Nov., 1987
MANUSCRIPTS 10 boxes
CORRESPONDENCE 4 boxes
DIARIES, APPOINTMENT BOOKS 1 box
PHONORECORDS 1 large carton
PHOTOGRAPHS 1 box
NOTES I RESEARCH FILES 4 boxes
FILES (Personal, Non-Research) 1 box
CLIPPINGS and RESEARCH 2 boxes
MICROFILM TAPE 2 boxes
PRINTED MATERIAL 5 boxes
NEWSPAPERS 3 boxes
MISCELLANY 1 box
POSTERS 1 package
FRAMED DOCUMENT
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Boxl
I. Manuscripts, by TN.
A. Short pieces I articles.
1. "Action From Principle." 2. "The American Scriptures." 3. "The Argument" (2 copies)/ 4. "Assault upon Walden." 5. "Autobiography of Malcolm X." 6. "The Battle of Walden Pond" (2 copies). 7. "Citizen DuBois." 8. "Climate of Courage." 9. "The Crime of Nathaniel Hawthorne." 10. "False to King Ahab." 11. "Father We Thank Thee." 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38.
"First National Camp Conference." "Further Argument" (2 copies). "Guardian of Our Conscience" (2 copies). "Hawthorne." "Hiroshima-Nagasaki Document" (2 copies). "Instead of a Book I Vol. 2." "The Iron Tower." "John Brown's Brain." "Key to John Brown: A Sense of Loss." "The Last Best Hope, or the Abolitionist Revolution." "Look Out Whitey." "A Little Like a Lion." "The Making of a Prophet (W.E.B.D.)" "The Matrix Place" (2 copies). "Matters of Fact." "My Life and Art Therapy." "Nelson on Geismar." "Noble Fallacy." "Ogres and Pigmies." "On Creating Revolutionary Art." "On Pacifism." "People with Strength" (2 copies). "Poetry 1971" (2 editions). "Preserving Newport'-s Heritage." , , ,, "Puritanism in Massachusetts." "The Resistant Spirit." "The Revolution Revisited" (2 copies).
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Box 1 cont'd.
Box2
39. 40. 41. 42.
43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56.
B. Plays.
"Revolutionary Puritanism." "Speech at Garrison Statue." "A Society Not Yet Formed." "A Short History of the Rise and Fall of the Non-Violent Civil Rights." "Theodore Parker's Library: A Self Portrait." "Thoreau and John Brown." "Transient and Permanent in Man" (3 copies). "Tribute to Truman." "Truman Nelson Reader." "The Unconstitutional Supreme Court." "Under Two Flags." "Waiting for Melville" (2 copies). "Wal den." "Wal den on Trial." "Wedding Feast of the Lamp." "Women and Sexuality." "Women as Strategic Allies." "The World the Slaveholders Made."
1. "Another Part of the Wood" (2 copies). 2. "Assault upon Freedom." 3. "Crime Against China." 4. "Everybody's Lousy." 5. "Fair Ederes' Tree." 6. "Frederick Douglass" (2). 7. "Fritchman." 8. "Halfway House" (3 copies). 9. "Homage to Nevada." 10. "The Lesson for the Day." 11. "Life at the Fight of Flight." 12. "A Matter of Fact, Fairy Tale." 13. "The Old Man," screenplay (2 copies). 14. "The Poached Egg." 15. "The Sarah Roberts Case." 16. "They Rather Enjoyed It." 17. "The Torture of Mothers" (3 copies). 18. Incomplete and unlabeled plays, in files.
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Box3
Box4
Box5
Box6
Box7
C. Books. [Also see Boxes 5-10.]
1. THE OLD MAN: JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973). [Also see Box 6.] a. Miscellaneous fragments (some possibly from
SURVEYOR).
D. Miscellaneous manuscripts.
1. "Very Early Nelson," file. 2. "Unpublished Gems," file. 3. Various fragments, unlabeled, assorted items.
E. Books (continued). [Also see Box 3.]
1. SURVEYOR (Doubleday, 1960). a. Two complete drafts ( one not in page order). b. Galley proof, incomplete. c. Miscellaneous fragments.
2. THE OLD MAN (see Box 3 above). a. Two drafts. b. Two galley proofs.
3. PASSIONBYTHEBROOK(Doubleday, 1953). [Also see Box 9.] a. Galley proof. b. Fragments and notes, file.
4. ABOLITIONISM, THE RIGHT OF REVOLUTION (1968). a. Manuscripts, variant drafts, 4 files. b. Galley proofs. c. Notes and fragments, file.
5. "Sarah Roberts Case," manuscripts, file. 6. THE TORTURE OF MOTHERS (Garrison Press, 1965);
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Box8
Box9
BoxlO
fragments and notes.
7. SIN OF THE PROPHET (Little Brown, 1952). a. Three drafts. b. Galley proof. c. Fragments and notes, four sets.
8. LITTLE LIKE A LION. a. Complete draft. b. Notes and fragments, file.
9. LOVE AND WAR (incomplete, unpublished novel); variant drafts, 4 files.
10. PASSION BY THEBROOK(see Box 7 above); three complete drafts.
11. DOCUMENTS OF UPHEAVAL: WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON AND THE RISE AND FALL OF THE NONVIOLENT PASSIVE RESISTANT MOVEMENT (Hill and Wang, 1966). a. TS drafts, 2 files. b. Galley proofs, 2 files. c. Parts and fragments, 2 files.
12. FALL OF THE WORD, 2 copies of manuscripts. 13. JAMES OTIS.
a. Various parts of manuscripts. b. Manuscripts and research notes, 2 files. c. "James Otis," printed material.
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NELSON, TRUMAN Correspondence
Scrapbook of Letters 1957-1960
Incl:-Rugoff, Milton TLS
TLS
ALS
Dec. 20, 1960
Dec. 12, 1960,
Dec. 1, [1960]
TLS Kent, Rockwell
Fadiman, Clifton
Geismar, Maxwell TL on card Nov. 6, 1960
Atkinson, Brooks TLS TLS TLS
Nov. 1, 1960 Sept. 30, 1960 Sept. 19, 1960
Schlesinger, Arthur TLS Feb. 6, 1957
Van Doren, Irita TLS
Mumford, Louis
DuBois, W.E.B.
TLS
TLS
Sept. 2, 1960
Sept. 2, 1960
May 16, 1960 \
Apr. 26, 1960
Apr. 27, 1960 } scattered Feb. 17, 1960/
Fuller, John G.
Schott, Webster
Babcock, Frederic
Starkey, Marian
Tynan, Kenneth
TLS
ALS
TLS
TLS
TLS
May 10, 1960
May 10, 1960
May 10, 1960 Sept. 29, 1959
Apr. 17, 1960
Apr. 14, 1960
Correspondence Chronological
Paige Box \ ~
Folder Large Envelope
Early plays 1930s
1930s Early letters
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Folder
Paige BoxJ4
Large Envelope
Early poetry, plays
Early letters
1930s
1930s
1935 3 items incl. Nelson, TrQman Letter to Arthur Shields (Irish actor, Abbey Theater, brother of Barry Fitzgerald) with Arthur Shields printed card
1936 Incl. Nelson, Truman CTL to Prof. Koch
1937 Incl. Holmes, John Haynes TLS
Koch, Frederich (WPA Theatre Project) 5 TLS
1938 Incl. termination letter from Mercury Theatre
Letters from Federal Theatre Project in New York signed by Ruth Gordon 3 TLS
1939 Incl. 1 letter
1940 Incl. Aiken, Conrad TLS July 1
Brooks, Van Wyck TLS July 14
Caldwell, Erskine TLS July 16
Kent, Rockwell TLS July 23
Otis, Elizabeth (McIntosh & Otis) Steinbeck Aug. 8
TLS for John
1941 Incl. Robeson, Eslanda Goode TLS Oct 6 for Paul Robeson (her husband)
1942 Incl. Sandburg, Carl Postcard TLS March 19
1943 Incl. Gassner, John (Theatre Guild) TLS Oct. 21
1944 Incl. Struik, Dirk (MIT) ALS March 3
1945 Incl. Field, Betty (Betty Field Rice) actress and then wife of Elmer Rice, playwright) TLS July 9
1946
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1947 Incl. Gielgud, John TLS July 20
Falk, Lee (Boston and Cambridge Summer Theatres) TLS Aug. 18
1948 Incl. copy of TN letter to F.O. Matthiessen
1949 1 letter
1950 Incl. Levin, Harry (Harvard u. Dept. of Eng. and Hist.) Postcard ALS Postcard ALS ALS Feb. 27 TLS May 22 TLS Dec. 19 TLS May 16
1951
1952 Incl. many from Harold Ober Associates.
Kent, Rockwell TLS Mar. 2
Howe, Mark DeWolfe (Harvard Law) ALS Feb. 16
1953 Incl. Howlett, Duncan (First Church in Boston) ~l
Lathrop, Donald G. 2 TLS .J
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Curley, James M. (Mayor) TLS Apr •.
Kent, Rockwell TLS Mar. 16
Morris, Richard (Historian, Columbia) 3 TLS
1954 Incl. Saltonstall, Leverett 2 TLS Oct. Oct. 6
Cowley, Malcolm
1955 Incl. Kent, Rockwell
1956
TLS
TLS
July 30
Jan. 3
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1957 Incl. Mehta, G.L. (Amb. of India to U.S.) TLS Aug. 28
1957 Wallace, Mike (ABC)
Saltonstall, Leverett
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Nov. 19
TLS TLS
July 17 Jan. 23
TLS
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Box(4
1957
1958 Incl.
Menninger, Karl
Gannett, Lewis
TLS
TLS
Oct. 24
July 31
Fuller, John G. (Sat. Rev.) TLS
Atkinson, Brooks TLS
Babcock, Frederic (Chicago Trib.)
Brooks, Van Wyck ALS Aug 3
Cousins, Norman TLS July 22
Larrabee, Eric TLS
Tynan, Kenneth 2 TLS
Schlesinger, Arthur TLS Mar.
Gannett, Lewis TLS
Forbes, Edward W. (Fogg Museum)
Aug. 4
TLS
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3 TLS
Sargent, Francis (Comm. of Nat. Resources later Gov.) TLS
Lyons, Louis (Nieman Foundation)
Menninger, Karl TLS Mar. 7
Brown, Francis (NY Times Book Rev.) TLS
Mumford, Lewis ALS Nov. 11
Fuller, Edmund Postcard TLS
Fadiman, Clifton Postcard ALS
1959 Incl. Saltonstall, Leverett 2 TLS
1960
Gold, Herbert (novelist) TLS
Morris, Richard (Columbia historian) TLS
Homans, William P. (atty) TLS
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. TLS
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1961 Incl. Nye, Russel (Michigan State) TLS
~ptheker, Herbert TLS
1962
Beecher, John 4 TLS
Atkinson, Brooks TLS
Kent, Sally (Mrs. Rockwell Kent) ALS
Menninger, Karl TLS
1963 Incl. Lathrop, Donald G. (Community Church of Boston) 2 TLS
Kihss, Peter (NY Times) 2 TLS
1964 Incl. Lathrop, Donald G. 2 TLS
Lowenfels, Walter (Dialogue) TLS
Lynn, Conrad ALS
Hinckle, Warren (Ramparts) TLS
Clarke, John Henrik TLS
1965 Incl. Clarke, John Henrik
Reed, Ishmael TLS
1966 Incl. Harap, Louis ALS
TLS
Killens, John Oliver & Jane
Hinckle, Warren Telegram
Mar. 25
ALS in her hand
North, Joseph (American Dialog) TLS
Kenny, Herbert (Boston Globe) 2 TLS
1967 Incl. Lynn, Conrad Postcard, ALS
Mungo, Raymond Postcard, TLS
Beecher, John TLS
Clarke, John Henrik ALS, TLS
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Box 11
1968 Incl. Barbour, Floyd 4 TLS
·O'Brien, Conor Cruise TLS
Pierce, Waldo 4 ALS
Lynn, Conrad Postcard 2 ALS
Yglesias, Helen 2 TLS & postcard
Mungo, Ray TLS
Mayfield, Julian Several
Cameron, Argus- Several
Kozol, Jonathan TLS
Beecher, John. Postcard
North, Joseph TLS
Stout, Rex TLS
1969 Incl. Kozol, Jonathan 2 ALS
Lynn, Conrad 3 ALS
Zinn, Howard TLS
Brooke, Edward TLS
Cameron, A_r:.g.us.
1970 Incl. Lynn, Conrad
2 TLS
2 ALS
Wright, Constance (novelist) TLS
Freed, Donald 2 TLS
4 TLS 1971 Incl. Schoeneman, Ralph
Griffin, John Howard 2 TLS
1972 Incl. Schirmer, Boone TLS
Lothrop, Donald TLS
1973 Incl. Brooke, Edward w. TLS Nov.
Yoken, Melvin ALS, TLS, ALS
Lynn, C9nrad ALS
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1974 Incl. Capouya, Emile TLS
·Lynn, Conrad ALS on CTL
1975
1976 Incl. Mayfield, Julian
Lynn, Conrad ALS
3 ALS
1977 Incl. Kennedy, Edward M. TLS
1978 Incl. Kozol, Jonathan ALS
1979
1980
1981 Incl. Alberts, William (Comm. Church of Boston) TLS
1982
1983
1984
1985 Birthday incl. Kozol, Jonathan ANS a~d snapshot of TN sitting by fireplace
Paige Box \ 1-
Folder marked "Need more unidentified letters.
Lynn, Conrad TLS
Folder "Letters Before 1963"
info." Undated, unsorted or Incl:
Folder "1950 letters sent by TN sort out and annotate" Including some letters from others - 1950s-1960s.
Folder containing typescript transcripts of John Brown's letters. In front.
Kennedy, John
Folder "Katie"
TLS June 4, 1956
Envelope. Birthday card (watercolor)
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Box \~
Folder "Transcendentalist" incl.
Forbes, Edward W. (Fogg M.)
Folder IMPORTANT LETTERS incl.
TLS 1958
Baldwin, James TLS May 11, 1966 Brooks, Van Wyck 2 ALS Nov. 15, Dec. 2, 1958 Hayden, Sterling TLS March 14, 1966 Kent, Rockwell TLS July 22, 1941 Carlin, John (Gov. Kansas) TLS Oct. 28, 1981 DuBois, W.E.B. 2 TLS Sept. 12, 1957 2 p.
Aug. 21, 1961 and 5 p. carbon typescript review of TN's
THE SURVEYOR 4 TLS from DuBois' wife Shirley. 1961, 1964,
1965. Mayfield, Julian Graves, Robert Kent, Rockwell O'Casey, Sean Sanborn, F.B.
TLS ALS TLS
2 ALS TLS
March 23, 1965 March 11, 1957 Feb. 10, 1964 Sept. 22, 1953, May 1, 1954
July 7, 1915 to Mrs. Fuller-Marquand
Folder THE SIN OF THE PROPHET
Correspondence 1948-1950. Most with Little Brown, many from Angus Cameron. Clips of reviews and royalty statements. Incl.
Levin, Harry ALS on postcard
Folder 19th Century Documents & Letters [Family?] 1856 Receipt for cemetery lot 1865 Wedding certificate San Jose, CA 1885, 1886, 1889, 1895, 1897 8 letters 1907 Postcard 1917 Probate court document and quit claim 1922 Probate court document
Note of genealogical info.
Folder of printed (in box with correspondence):
a) National Testimonial to William Lloyd Garrison 1866 3 p.
b) Letter: Printed ALS Jan. 18, 1843 From Committee of Arrangements of Massachusetts
Anti-Slavery Society, invitation to 11th anniversary.
Holograph address to Moses Emery, West Newbury, Mass. Postmarked Jan. 21, 1843
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Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Correspondence 1985
With publishers, friends
incl.
Lynn, Conrad
Letters from Kathy
TLS Jan. 13, 1976
Mass Save (Gas & Electric)
Personal Letters 1982-1983 incl.
Geismar, Anne ALS
Folder 1984
Envelope "Waldo Letters"
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Folder
Folder
Peirce, Waldo 1884-1970 10 postcards 3 letters
1965-1980 incl. many re THE TORTURE OF MOTHERS
1987
Clarke, John Henrik
Dellinger, Dave Geismar, Maxwell
TLS TLS
2 TLS Dec. 13, Jan. 25,
June 1, 1966 Feb. 12, 1971
1966 1965
Many birthday cards from friends
Envelope of cards 1983
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
incl.
Lynn, Conrad ALS June 25, 1986
Lesley College Correspondence
Louis Ruchames (Prof. U. Mass) (many letters elsewhere) 1957-1972 ca. 20 items
Hill & Wang (publishers) 1963-68 royalty statements
The Old Men
incl.
Publicity and Responses 1973 incl.
Geismar, Maxwell TNS
1 C:
Paige Box \L
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
* Folder
Lynn, Conrad
"Torture of Mothers"
TLS March 10, 1973
Julian Mayfield on R of R
1976, 1983
Cameron, Kenneth (Trinity College)
14 letters 1 postcard 1957, 1958
R. Truman Nelson Reader 1986, 1987
"Truman"
incl. Lynn, Conrad
"Africa"
ALS Nov. 12, 1978
Letters from Michael Wilson
Freed, Donald TLS Feb. 25, 1970
Ken McCormick Letters (Doubleday)
1952-1960
Garrison Press
Orders
Seven Seas Books (Berlin, W. Germany)
1966-1968
Beacon Press
5 items
1969-1972
Beacon Press "Original File not Sorted"
Nancy Wokocowsky
F.O. Matthiessen (Francis Otto) 1902-1950
Letters 1948-1950 16 letters (short, many
signed "Matty")+ last page of 2 p.
letter,
Paige Box \'"L
Folder
Folder
Carolyn Ramsay
Charles $imms of the Deacons
Folder (Large) "Letters from Eleanor - 1928"
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
Paige Box \'\
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder
(Note: letters from 30s contain many from her)
"Fred" [Fred Whitehead] Other letters elsewhere
"Charles H. Foster" Other letters elsewhere
"Otis"
"Harry Rosenthal" Other letters elsewhere
Robert Merideth Other letters elsewhere
Minnesota 1961, Colby College 1974. Late Chairman American Studies, U. of California, Davis.
Vincent Ferrini
with 1poems
Angus Cameron (Large) (Knopf) 1950s-1970s Other letters elsewhere
Conrad Lynn Large folder elsewhere
Maxwell Geismar (many items)
Other letters
"Important: Corresp. used as research re John Brown"
Pasha
Kate
with Kansas State Historical Society 1956-1961
Jonathan Kozol 1984 2 items
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1 Paige Box I!;
Diaries or Appointment Books 29 items
2 n.d.
1950, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975,
1976, 1977, 1978 (2), 1980 (2), 1981, 1985, 1987.
Small Appointment Books
1947, 1948, 1955
Calendars
1962, 1964, 1968, 1982, 1983 (2)
Telephone Address Book
Notebooks 6
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NELSON, TRUMAN
Large box
Phonorecords
A. 78 RPM
39 records in 11 sets
1) MacDowell Concerto No. 2 in D minor. 1 record broken.
B. 33 1 / 3 RPM
55 records including
1) Joan Baez in concert
Vangard, VRS-9112
2) J.S. Bach: Musical Offering
Nonesuch H-71384
3) J.S. Bach: The Four Orchestral Suites
Musical Heritage Society HMS 960-961
4) W. Furtwangler: Eight Beethoven Sympft-Onies
(Numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9) Murray Hill 896362
5) Greatest Hits of 1720 (Various composers)
Columbia MX 34544
6) Arthur Fiedler: Encore
Polydor 24-5005
1 Paige Box \t
PHOTOGRAPHS & ILLUSTRATIONS
Historical family, some 19th century
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Notes/Research Files
Box 1.;o
A)
B)
Box \✓" C)
1/2 box files·and notes for Surveyor\
1/2 box files and notes on John Brown/
Guns (4 folders+)
Some overlap
D)
E)
Right of Revolution ("Monroe") - (1 large folder)
Passion by the Book - (2 folders)
F)
G)
Box Y7
H)
I)
J)
K)
L)
M)
N)
Box \1
O)
P)
Q)
R)
God & Love (300 - 550, 550 - end)
Fall of the Word (1 small note book)
Torture of Mothers (4 folders)
Revolutionary Morality (3 folders)
Walden (Save Walden) - (8 folders)
Garrison Material (1 folder)
Utopias (2 folders)
Sarah Roberts Case (2 folders)
Hawthorne (1 folder)
DuBois & Africa
Biography
James Otis
Unlabeled misc. notes, or small quantity (21 folders, 4
notebooks, 2 binders)
Paige Box 1..1
Files (Personal, Non Research)
includes some correspondence
A) 2/3 box of files of personal interests
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including: 1) Causes he was active in
2) Speeches & speaking engagements
3) Personal files
B) 1/3 box of financial files
including: 1) Contracts for books
2) General bills (most medical)
~o 'i- l.., (... ....:'l.., ~ 3) Misc. financial documents
VII Clippings
Misc. clippings of newspapers and magazines used for
research. Many reviews of his books.
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Tapes, Film, Videotape
Box ;i.4 2 P. Boxes
A) Reel to reel tapes
1) 7 inch reels
a) 25 labeled
b) 6 unlabeled or crossed out
c) Reels without boxes (5)
2) 5 inch reels (7)
3) 4 inch reel
B) Metal box with 9 sound recordings and film
Box "2..5
C) Microfilm
1) 13 boxes "Oneida Community"
2) New York Herald Oct-Dec 1859
3) John Brown papers
4) Essex Institute
5) 2 maps
D) 2 Sony video tapes labeled "Truman Nelson Edited Tape"
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III Printed Material
Box ""Z;'g
A. Printed material used as research for the following
books:
1) Surveyor/Old Man
2) Passion by the Brook
3) Guns
4) Torture of Mothers
5) Sarah Roberts Case
6) Revolutionary Morality/Right of Revolution
7) James Otis
Box 2't
Printed material written by Truman Nelson. Music and
photocopied typescripts by others. Pamphlets and
Journals.
Box 3()
Magazines and journals
Misc. printed material
lsaxes -sl-'33 B. Newspapers
Sections, pages and clippings of various dates
1 Paige Box 34 MISCELLANEOUS
Papers by others, etc.
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Package #1
Communist Russian posters, on newsprint in color. Condition
Package #2
poor with torn edges. 16 posters
3 reproductions of posters
1920s-1930s (?)
Framed document. Recognition by State of Kansas of TN for
work on John Brown. Signed by Gov. John Carlin,
Oct. 28, 1981.
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Box 35 I.
II.
III.
IV.
Manuscripts by TN.
Nelson, Truman 5/30/02
Preliminary Listing
A. FRESCOES OF TRANSCENDENTAL LOVE. Typescript with holograph corrections, 161 p.
B. GOD IN LOVE. Typescript with holograph corrections, 553 p. 1. Book 1, p. 1-161. 2. Book 2, p. 162-303. 3. Book 3, p. 304-553.
Printed Material. A. Re: THE TORTURE OF MOTHERS. B. Beacon Press-News of Books and Authors. C. "Oneida Community," books, pamphlets and serial, 1834-1972. D. Flyer from University of Kansas.
Correspondence. A. Professional.
1. Re: bills and writings, includes printed material re: the correspondence and reviews, 1978-1982.
Photographs. A. 2 photos on cardboard with letter re: use for a book.
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