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The collection consists of papers and books of Howard S. Neiman donated to Fales Library by Sivia Brenner Mann in 1994, predominantly relating to the Pleiades Club, a Greenwich Village literary society. Howard Neiman was a member of the Board of Governors throughout the Club's history, and at various times served as President, First Vice-President and Secretary of the Club. The letters, documents and printed items of the collection present information on literary and artistic life of the Greenwich Village in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The Pleiades Club emerged in 1896 from the gatherings of some member of the Greenwich Village artistic community in the small Italian restarant of Maria del Prato on MacDougal Street. Fales, Cleveland Moffett, Stephen Crane, Billy Welsh, Henry Tyrrell, Sam Chamberlain, Colonel Patton, William Garrison, George Luks, and Ernest Jarrold as its progenitors.