Research Catalog
Foster-Murphy collection
- Title
- Foster-Murphy collection, 1900-1969.
- Author
- Foster, Jeanne Robert, 1879-1970.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957.
- Epstein, Jacob, 1880-1959.
- Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.
- Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932.
- Hyde, Douglas, 1860-1949.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
- Pach, Walter, 1883-1958.
- Pascin, Jules, 1885-1930.
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
- Quinn, John, 1870-1924.
- Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947.
- Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet, 1868-1940.
- Yeats, Jack B. (Jack Butler), 1871-1957.
- Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922.
- Yeats, Lily, 1866-1949.
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
- Cuala Press.
- Description
- 7 linear feet (15 boxes).
- Summary
- The Foster-Murphy Collection reflects the artistic and, to a lesser degree, the political ferment of the period from 1907 to the 1920s.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Diaries.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Readers must use copy prints of Brancusi photographs. Originals not available without advance permission of the Curator of Manuscripts.
- Additional Formats (note)
- available on microfilm;
- Source (note)
- Murphy, William M.
- Biography (note)
- Jeanne R. Foster (1879-1970), creator of the collection, was an American poet, assistant editor of The Review of Reviews and American editor of Transatlantic Review. She met a significant group of writers, poets and artists through John Quinn who was a New York lawyer, collector of modern art and active patron of the arts.
- Provenance (note)
- Jeanne R. Foster gave the bulk of her collection and her personal papers to William M. Murphy, American scholar and biographer of John Butler Yeats and the Yeats family. The New York Public Library acquired the collection from Murphy in 1983.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- MssCol 1051
- OCLC
- NYPW92-A200
- Author
- Foster, Jeanne Robert, 1879-1970.
- Title
- Foster-Murphy collection, 1900-1969.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Access
- Readers must use copy prints of Brancusi photographs. Originals not available without advance permission of the Curator of Manuscripts.
- Additional Formats
- Letters and documents of Lily and William Butler Yeats available on microfilm; New York Public Library.
- Biography
- Jeanne R. Foster (1879-1970), creator of the collection, was an American poet, assistant editor of The Review of Reviews and American editor of Transatlantic Review. She met a significant group of writers, poets and artists through John Quinn who was a New York lawyer, collector of modern art and active patron of the arts.
- Finding Aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Provenance
- Jeanne R. Foster gave the bulk of her collection and her personal papers to William M. Murphy, American scholar and biographer of John Butler Yeats and the Yeats family. The New York Public Library acquired the collection from Murphy in 1983.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Editors.Poets.
- Added Author
- Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957.Epstein, Jacob, 1880-1959.Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932.Hyde, Douglas, 1860-1949.Joyce, James, 1882-1941.Pach, Walter, 1883-1958.Pascin, Jules, 1885-1930.Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.Quinn, John, 1870-1924.Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947.Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet, 1868-1940.Yeats, Jack B. (Jack Butler), 1871-1957.Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922.Yeats, Lily, 1866-1949.Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.Cuala Press.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 1051