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Padraic Colum letter to Bruce Kellner
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Padraic Colum was a noted playwright, essayist, novelist, poet, and author of books for children. Born on December 8, 1881, in Longford, Ireland, Colum came to the United States in 1914 and died on January 12, 1972, in Enfield, Connecticut. Though Colum worked briefly for a railroad, he became a full-time writer in Dublin, Ireland, in 1901. He was a founder of the Irish National Theatre (later known as the Abbey Theatre), and co-founder and editor for a time of the
Irish Review."Padraic Colum." Contemporary Authors Online reproduced in Biography Resource Center. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed April 2008).
One typed and signed letter written by Padraic Colum to Dr. Bruce Kellner, possibly regarding the inclusion of a particular letter in
Between Friends: Letters of James Branch Cabell and Others (1962), a volume Colum was editing.Box 55, F0821: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.
Purchase, 2008.
Processed and encoded by Anita Wellner, April 2008. Further encoded by George Apodaca, October 2015.
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- 2008 April 9
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