Guide to the Papers concerning proposed anthology of western poetry, 1905-1908

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Arts and Humanities --Literature --Poetry

Guide to the Papers Concerning Proposed Anthology of Western Poetry, 1905-1908

Collection number: BANC MSS C-H 111

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

Processed by:: The Bancroft Library staff
Date Completed:: ca. 1959-1967
Encoded by:: Xiuzhi Zhou

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Papers Concerning Proposed Anthology of Western Poetry,

Date (inclusive): 1905-1908

Collection Number: BANC MSS C-H 111

Creator: Nye, Alfred Bourne, 1853-1913

Extent: Number of containers: 2 boxes

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

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Languages Represented: English

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Collection is open for research.

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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.

Biography

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.

Scope and Content

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.

Box 1

Correspondence, 1905-1908

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically by name of author, with copies of Nye's letters interfiled chronologically in each folder. Correspondence with relatives and heirs of deceased authors has been placed under the name of the writer. A list of the more important correspondents follows.

Box 2

Copies of poems

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically by name of author.

Austin, Mary (Hunter), 1868-1934

2 letters, 1905-1906

Bashford, Herbert, 1871-1928

Letter, Jan. 14, 1906

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?

2 letters, 1906

Binkley, Christian, 1870-

Letter, Jan. 7, 1906

Bland, Henry Meade, 1863-1931

3 letters, 1905-1906

Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951

Letter, Jan. 23, 1906

Channing, Grace Ellery

See Stetson, Grace Ellery (Channing)

Cheney, John Vance, 1848-1922

2 letters, ca. 1905

Cheney, Warren, 1858-1921

Letter, Jan. 23, 1906

Coolbrith, Ina Donna, 1842-1928

Letter, Dec. 26, 1905

Darling, Isabel

5 letters, 1905-1906

Dawson, Emma Frances, 1851-1926

3 letters, 1906-1907

Dye, Eva Emery

2 letters, 1905

Foote, Lucius Harwood, 1826-1913

2 letters, 1906

Frémont, Elizabeth Benton

2 letters, 1906. Re poem written by her father, John C. Fremont.

Gayley, Charles Mills, 1858-1932

3 letters, 1906

Goodman, Joseph T., 1838-1917

2 letters, 1905

Greene, Charles Samuel, 1856-1930

2 letters, 1906

Hall, Sharlot Mabridth, 1870-

2 letters, 1906

Hardy, Irene, 1841-

3 letters, 1906-1907

Higginson, Ella (Rhoads), 1862-1940

4 letters, 1906

Hudson, William Henry, 1841-1922

2 letters, 1905

Ilsley, Marshall, 1863-

Letter, Jan. 2, 1906

Irwin, Wallace, 1875-1959

Letter, ca Dec. 1905

Jenney, Charles Elmer, 1872-

Letter, Mar. 16, 1906

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

3 letters, 1905-1906

Keeler, Charles Augustus, 1871-1937

Letter, Mar. 20, 1906

Knapp, Adeline, 1860-1909

3 letters, 1905-1906

Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928

Letter, Nov. 14, 1905

Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940

2 letters, 1905-1908

Miller, Joaquin, 1841-1913

Letter, Oct . 30, 1905

Noguchi, Yone, 1875-1947

Letter, ca. Mar. 1906

Phelps, Charles Henry, 1853-1933

Letter, Nov. 20, 1906

Robertson, Louis Alexander, 1856-1910

Letter, Nov. 6, 1905

Scheffauer, Herman, 1878-1927

3 letters, 1906-1907

Shinn, Charles Howard, 1852-1924

Letter, ca. Aug. 1905

Shinn, Milicent Washburn, 1858-1940

3 letters, 1905-1908

Sosso, Lorenzo, 1867-

3 letters, 1905-1906

Sterling, George, 1869-1926

3 letters, 1906

Stetson, Grace Ellery (Channing), 1862-1937

Letter, Feb. 1, 1906

Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909

Letter, Dec. 11, 1905

Taylor, Edward Robeson, 1838-1923

3 letters, 1905

Wagner, Madge Morris, d. 1924

4 letters, 1905-1906

Walter, Carrie (Stevens), d. 1907

Letter, Mar. 28, 1906

Whitaker, Robert, 1863-1944

Letter, Nov. 1, 1905