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John Butler Yeats letters

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Call Number:
F0293
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
4 item (8 pages)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0099, F0293, John Butler Yeats letters, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1920 and undated (inclusive)
Creator:
Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922
Form:
Letters (correspondence) and Sketches
Abstract:
Letters from Irish painter John Butler Yeats to two individuals. Two of the letters contain sketches.

Irish painter John Butler Yeats (1839-1932) was born in County Down. He is the father of poet W. B. (William Butler) Yeats and painter Jack B. Yeats. John Butler Yeats' daughters were also literary. Susan Mary Yeats [Lily] and Elizabeth Corbet [Lollie, Lolly] Yeats founded [with Evelyn Gleeson] the Dun Emer Press (later the Cuala Press). John Butler Yeats was a friend of Irish painter Hugh Lane. John Butler Yeats has also written essays and reviews.

Hogan, Robert, ed.,Dictionary of Irish Literature. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Inc., 1979), pp. 697, 700-701.Nicola Gordon Bowe, "Yeats, Susan Mary [Lily] (1866-1949)."Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61425 (accessed April 10, 2007).

This collection consists of four autograph letters signed by John Butler Yeats, of which two include sketches in the body of the document. Three undated letters are addressed to Miss Morslar. The other letter is dated February 21, 1920, and is addressed to Miss Buss.

Box 14, F0293: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.

Purchase, 1987.

Processed and encoded by Debra Johnson, April 2007. Further encoded by George Apodaca, September 2015.

This item forms part of MSS 0099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

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University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2007 April 10
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The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

John Butler Yeats letters, 1920 and undated.
Box 14 Folder F0293
Physical Description

Four autograph letters signed, 8 pp.

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