mss0099_0131.xml Finding aid for Emily Lawless letter to Smith1911 February 10 University of Delaware Library, Special Collections University of Delaware Library
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Date encoded (2007 April 11) Finding aid encoded 2007 April 11 English Emily Lawless letter to Smith1911 February 10 Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Phone: 302-831-2229 Fax: 302-831-6003 URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
 Lawless, Emily, 1845-1913. Emily Lawless letter to Smith1911 February 10 MSS 099, F131 1 item (4 pp.) Letter from Irish author Emily Lawless to "Mr. Smith" originally laid in a copy of Lawless' book Atlantic Rhymes and Rhythm (1898). Materials entirely in English. University of Delaware Library - Special Collections Source

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MSS 099, F131, Emily Lawless letter to Smith, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

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 Biographical Note

Irish writer Emily Lawless (1845–1913), whose father was the wealthy Anglo-Irish nobleman Baron Cloncurry, became a popular author of historical and romantic novels focusing on Irish politics and history. She was also a poet whose work was known to Katharine Tynan and William Butler Yeats.

"Emily Lawless, 1845–1913." Irish Women Authors: An Exhibition. University of Delaware Library. Newark, Delaware. 1994, p. 8.

 Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of an autograph letter, signed, from Emily Lawless to "Mr. Smith." Writing from a nursing home, Lawless responds to a request for a book of her poems and discusses appearances of her work. She identifies With the Wild Geese as her best collection. This letter was originally laid in Lawless' book Atlantic Rhymes and Rhythms (Special Collections call number: SPEC S18 PR4878.L6 A84 1898).

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This item forms part of MSS 099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

Items originally laid in Emily Lawless, Atlantic Rhymes and Rhythms ([London?] : Printed by S. S. for herself and four others, 1898). (Special Collections call number: SPEC S18 PR4878.L6 A84 1898).

Detailed Contents List 7F131Emily Lawless letter to Smith1911 February 10 Autograph letter signed, 4 pp.