Papers Concerning Proposed Anthology of Western Poetry, 1905-1908

Summary

Title:

Papers Concerning Proposed Anthology of Western Poetry,

Dates:

1905-1908

Creators:

Nye, Alfred Bourne, 1853-1913

Extent:

Number of containers: 2 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Papers concerning proposed anthology of western poetry, BANC MSS C-H 111, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Biographical / historical:

In 1905, Alfred B. Nye, who was at the time private secretary to the governor of California, began collecting poems by California and other Pacific Coast writers, with the intention of publishing a volume of the selections and brief biographies of the authors. Accordingly, he wrote the authors, asking permission to publish certain poems and requesting biographical data. The response was generally very favorable, the authors granting the request and often suggesting the poems they regarded as their best. After the San Francisco earthquake and fire, Nye was compelled to abandon work on the project for many months. In November 1906 he was appointed state controller and found the work so time consuming that there was none to devote to his literary pursuits. To one of the sympathetic poets he wrote:

Moreover, I am wondering whether the good people of the State would not regard it as evidence of dangerous unsoundness if their head bookkeeper (which is what the State Controller is) should be announced as the publisher of a compilation of poetry?

He apparently never completed the project.

Physical location:

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Related resources

Other descriptive data:

These papers, which consist of copies of Nye's letters, the replies he received from the various authors, and copies of the poems selected for inclusion in the anthology, came to the Bancroft Library in September 1959 as the gift of Robert A. Waring.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by The Bancroft Library staff

Date Prepared:

© 1997

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding; finding aid encoded by Xiuzhi Zhou. Date of source: ca. 1959-1967.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Papers concerning proposed anthology of western poetry, BANC MSS C-H 111, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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