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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Leonard Charles Van Noppen Papers, #3510, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Microfilm copy available.

Acquisitions Information

Bequest and gift 1960-1961.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2021

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Cults--United States--History.
• Diaries.
• Dutch Americans--New York (State)--History.
• Dutch literature--Study and teaching--United States--History--19th century.
• Education--Netherlands--History--19th century.
• Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Evolution--Poetry.
• Military attaches--England--History--World War, 1914-1918.
• Military attaches--Netherlands--History--World War, 1914-1918.
• Netherlands--Politics and government--1898-1948.
• New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life.
• Poets, American--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
• Universal Order (Organization)
• Van Noppen, Leonard Charles, 1868-1935.
• World War, 1914-1918--Diplomatic history.
• World War, 1914-1918--Netherlands--Personal narratives, American.

Correspondence and writings of Van Noppen, native of the Netherlands and poet who lived in New York and lectured on Dutch language and literature. The collection includes typescripts of his writings; correspondence concerning his education in North Carolina and the Netherlands; correspondence with friends and relatives, publishers, prospective employers, and literary patrons; correspondence while a United States naval attache at the Hague and London during World War I; and a diary (34 pages) kept by Van Noppen while he was at the Hague, 9 April-17 September 1918, concerning meetings with Dutch leaders and the political situation in the Netherlands. Papers after Van Noppen's death concern his wife's efforts to have his long poem on evolution, Cosmorama, edited and published; his wife's associations with Universal Order, a mystical cult; and, after Mrs. Van Noppen's death, disposition of the papers. Volumes include reviews and critiques of Van Noppen's work, clippings, and notebooks.