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Patrick MacGill letter, notes, and poem

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Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]181 South College Avenue, Newark, DE 19717-5267

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Call Number:
F0461
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
2 item (3 pages)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0099, F0461, Patrick MacGill letter, notes, and poem, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1913 july 16 (inclusive)
Creator:
MacGill, Patrick, 1890-1963
Form:
Letters (correspondence), Notes, and Poems
Abstract:
Letter from Patrick MacGill which includes notes and lines of poetry by an unidentified person.

Irish writer Patrick MacGill (1890-1963) is remembered for his poems and novels. MacGill was known as the "Navvy Poet" because of the low-skilled jobs he held prior to writing as well as for his poetry, which described the experiences of Irish working people.

"Patrick MacGill 1890-1963." Biography Resource Center. http://galenet.galegroup.com (accessed March 23, 2007).

This was originally laid in a copy of Patrick MacGill's

Songs of the Dead End. The collection consists of a letter from Patrick MacGill to an unidentified person acknowledging a book received and mentioning Songs of the Dead End (Special Collections call number: SPEC PR6025 .A23 S6 1913). It also includes a page of notes and lines of a poem by an unidentified person.

Box 27, F0461: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.

Purchase, 1990.

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

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

Items originally laid in Patrick MacGill,

Songs of the Dead End (London : Year Book Press, 1913). (Special Collections call number: SPEC PR6025 .A23 S6 1913). Tipped into the book are a photograph of MacGill and a clipping. The original is in the print collections in Special Collections.

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University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2007 March 22
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The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Patrick MacGill letter, notes, and poem, 1913 July 16.
Box 27 Folder F0461
Physical Description

Autograph letter signed, 1 p. and autograph note (not signed), 2 pp.

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