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A collection of prints, photographs, pamphlets, clippings, playbills, and programs dealing with the theater, chiefly American and English, in all its aspects including drama, opera, dance, movies, puppets, and spectacles. The majority of the material documents the 19th century.

Correspondence, manuscripts, art works and printed materials received from Catherine Lodyjensky, a doctor and a collector or Russian art, or bequested by the Trustees of the Catherin Lodyjensky estate.

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 (see Notebook 1920 November-1921 June), circa May 1921, on whom he had considerable influence, even though their friendship was of brief duration.

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, article, essays, exhibition catalogs, printed material, and 9 floppy disks of her research on artsits and art in Vichy France, as well as Max Jacob, the French poet, painter, writer, and critic.

Cover designs; original art work for illustrations, vignettes, charts, and mastheads; prints and photographs from the files of THE SURVEY. The collection consists primarily of art work for SURVEY GRAPHIC; some material for MIDMONTHLY is also included. SURVEY GRAPHIC included articles on broad social issues, including public health, world peace, welfare, labor conditions, and government regulations. It had striking pictorial covers, and was extensively illustrated with drawings, cartoons, reproductions of contemporary prints, and photographs, all represented in the collection. The cataloged artists include Wilfred Jones and Hendrik Willem Van Loon.

Letters and postcards from David and Marusia Burliuk to art historian and collector Evgenii Dubnov, and Christmas cards the Burliuk family had received over the years from relatives and friends. There is also a photograph of David Burliuk, Marusia Burliuk, Marianna Burliuk-Fiala and Vaclav Fiala. Also included is a copy of Dubnov's essay about his correspondence with Burliuk.