Nelson Family Juvenilia Collection of Pamela Russell and Murray McClellan

The Nelson Family Juvenilia Collection is composed of many small, handwritten and illustrated works created by the brothers Elmer, Arthur, and Walter Nelson during the 1890s during the boys pre-teen and teenage years. Most of the items take the form of newspapers, books or catalogs. Additional material includes loose illustrations, maps, lists, diary entries, scrapbooks and fragments of other works. A small number of photographs printed from glass plate negatives made by the Nelson brothers are found at the end of the collection. The material is organized by title or, where absent, description (indicated by square brackets). Author names and dates are supplied when they are found on the items, but may not reflect the actual authorship or dates of the material. Much of the material in the collection is set in a fantasy world created by the brothers and comprehensively described in their publications - including geographies, histories, biographies, newspapers and novels set in this world. The collection includes two diary fragments, the only non-fiction work in the collection.