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Identification: MSS 099, F821
Creator: Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972.
Title: Padraic Colum letter to Bruce Kellner
Inclusive Dates: 1959 October 28
Extent: 1 item
Abstract: One letter typed signed from Padraic Colum to Dr. Bruce Kellner.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 099, F821, Padraic Colum letter to Bruce Kellner, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Shelved in SPEC MSS 099
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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.
Sources:
"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.
Padraic Colum letter to Bruce Kellner, 1959 October 28 [Box 55 F821]
