{"value"=>"<p>General correspondence includes correspondence between Nelson while in Newbern, and members of his family in Cambridge, Massachusetts; documents his activities in the posts held in Newbern; documents his work at the Astor, Howard Memorial, Newberry, and Columbia College libraries, and his work as a bibliographer, indexer, author of the Waltham book, and contributor to periodicals and encyclopedias. Nelson received letters from librarians around the country who wrote to consult him on indexing and cataloging questions, and from Harvard classmates whose letters, and Nelson's replies, provide interesting biographical information. A significant amount of New York Library Club correspondence is included here. Samuel Putnam Avery, R. R. Bowker, librarians Melvil Dewey and Harry L. Koopman, fine printers Frederic Goudy and William Edwin Rudge, and I. N. Phelps Stokes are among the frequent correspondents.</p>"}