Om genstanden
Brev fra Albert Nielsen til Anders Nielsen, to af Carl Nielsens brødre. I brevet meddeles Carl Nielsens død. På brevet skrevet: "Oct. 14th 1931/ My Dear Bro./ I can not write very/ much am all broke up in/ spirit our dear Brother Carl died/ Oct. 4th very little news about it/ this far, a Lady just back from/ Denmark told Lovise about it, they/ had a wireless telegram to the Boat/ while on the Ocean Now today I called/ some of the Danish News Papers and the/ Danish Consulate they Sonsul knew/ more then we did Carl had been sick/ in a Hospital for some Time (getting/ better) but suddenly passed on, it is a sad tiding for us John, and the last letter/ I had was so full of love and wherein he/ begged us to come back home I have his two/ last letters - Now lately I have painted a/ picture by memory of of our old home where/ I was the first born (Uglehuset paa det Sorte)// I had sent him a skets of it he thought/ i was wonderfull correct I was going to/ send him this painting in the near future/ and with it this little Vers/ Mit Barndoms hjem den lille Have/ hvor jeg har leget med lette Fjed/ med fagre Minder en hellig Gave/ som binder Hjertet til dette Sted/ Carl Jacobsen Lovises Husband/ translated it pretty good like this/ Home of my Childhood, - the little Garden/ Where I was playing, a barefoot boy/ My heart is dwelling in fond remembance/ Where first I tasted life's sweetest joy/ Now it is all too late and everything seems/ dark for me, he was such a wonderfull sympa-/tetic person, him and I could talk about every-/thing from our young days/ Love to all/ Your Bro. Albert/ Andrew has been very sick lately/ but better now//
Genstanden er doneret til Odense Bys Museer i august 2011. Det er givet af enken efter George E. Nelson, der var barnebarn til John S. Nelson. Kassen fra Amerika med div. Nielseniana (plader, breve, fotos mm) ankom til Odense fra USA 13. oktober 2011.
Melanie Nelson skriver bl.a. i mail af 31.7.2011: "Sophus Nielsen, brother of Carl Nielsen emigrated to the USA and changed his name to John Nelson. In his last years he lived in Ironwood, Michigan and Mercer, Wisconsin with his wife Jenny. Their only child was a son George I Nelson. George's son George E. Nelson, is my late husband. George died of a heart attack May 17, 2006, near Munster, Germany where we were vacationing.
My George and his siblings, Johnny and Prudence, lived with his grandfather and grandmother, John and Jenny Nelson, for 2 years during The Great Depression, and I was told that although Sophus (John) was over 70 years old, he got up early every morning and made oatmeal for the children before they went to school. Johnny died in 1953 in Canada on a canoe trip, and Prudence died 2002 in Mercer Wisconsin of a rare cancer."
