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William Butler Yeats collection of papers

Title: William Butler Yeats collection of papers, 1876-[1965] bulk (1897-1939).
Author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Mixed material	Permit needed	Berg Coll MSS Yeats, WB	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

ca. 3,125 items.

Summary

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, notebooks, and portraits.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Correspondence.
Notebooks.

Note

An album, compiled by Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell cataloged separately.

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Biography (note)

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, playwright, and essayist, and the cofounder of the Irish Literary Theatre.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Provenance (note)

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. Former owners include W. T. H. Howe, Lady Gregory, J. S. Watson, Sara Allgood, Ria Mooney, the Group Theatre archive, and Nash's Pall Mall magazine. Some materials contain W. Van R. Whitall's bookplate and John Quinn's bookplate. The typescript of the play, "The Land of Heart's Desire" was a gift of Anne Fremantle.

Processing Action (note)

Cataloged

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Yeats, WB

OCLC

NYPW03-A166

Author

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.

Title

William Butler Yeats collection of papers, 1876-[1965] bulk (1897-1939).

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, playwright, and essayist, and the cofounder of the Irish Literary Theatre.

Provenance

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. Former owners include W. T. H. Howe, Lady Gregory, J. S. Watson, Sara Allgood, Ria Mooney, the Group Theatre archive, and Nash's Pall Mall magazine. Some materials contain W. Van R. Whitall's bookplate and John Quinn's bookplate. The typescript of the play, "The Land of Heart's Desire" was a gift of Anne Fremantle.

Indexes

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Local Note

Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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Allgood, Sara, 1883-1950.

Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.

Bailey, William F. (William Frederick), 1857-1917.

Colum, Mary.

Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972.

Duncan, Ellen.

Dunsany, Beatrice.

Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957.

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.

Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), 1883-

Fay, W. G. (William George), 1872-1947.

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.

Gonne, Maud, 1866-1953.

Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.

Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932.

Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950.

Horniman, Annie Elizabeth Fredericka, 1860-1937.

Hunt, Violet, 1862-1942.

Masefield, John, 1878-1967.

Mooney, Ria, 1903-1973.

Moore, George, 1852-1933.

O'Leary, John, 1830-1907.

Pope-Hennessy, Una, 1876-1949.

Robinson, Lennox, 1886-1958.

Russell, George William, 1867-1935.

Sarton, May, 1912-1995.

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.

Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926.

Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.

Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909.

Wolfe, Humbert, 1885-1940.

Yeats, Jack B. (Jack Butler), 1871-1957.

Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922.

Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former owner NN-BGC

Quinn, John, 1870-1924. Former owner NN-BGC

Whitall, William Van R.. Former owner NN-BGC

Fremantle, Anne, 1909-2002. Donor NN-BGC

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Yeats, WB

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