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Identification: MSS 099, F180
Creator: Orpen, William, Sir, 1878-1931.
Title: "Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself" manuscript
Inclusive Dates: undated
Extent: 1 item (121 pp.)
Abstract: Autobiographical manuscript of Irish artist Sir William Orpen's Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself (1925).
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 099, F180, Sir William Orpen, "Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself" manuscript, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Shelved in SPEC MSS 099
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Purchase, 1986.
Processed and encoded by Debra Johnson, March 2007.
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Dublin-born artist Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, R. A. (1878–1931) was a noted painter. He was a cousin of writer Lady Gregory and painter Hugh Lane.
Sources:
Bruce Arnold, "Orpen, Sir William Newenham Montague (1878–1931)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35331. (accessed April 10, 2007).
This collection consists of a typed manuscript with holograph corrections of Sir William Orpen's autobiographical Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself (1925).
Sir William Orpen "Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself" manuscript, undated [Box 8 F180]
Autograph manuscript with holograph collections, 121 pp.
