mss0099_0293.xml Finding aid for John Butler Yeats letters1920 and undated University of Delaware Library, Special Collections University of Delaware Library
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Date encoded (2007 April 10) Finding aid encoded 2007 April 10 English John Butler Yeats letters1920 and undated 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/
 Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922. John Butler Yeats letters1920 and undated MSS 099, F293 4 items (8 pp.) Letters from Irish painter John Butler Yeats to two individuals. Two of the letters contain sketches. Materials entirely in English. University of Delaware Library - Special Collections Source

Purchase, 1987.

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 Citation

MSS 099, F293, John Butler Yeats letters, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

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 Biographical Note

Irish painter John Butler Yeats (1839–1932) was born in County Down. He is the father of poet W. B. (William Butler) Yeats and painter Jack B. Yeats. John Butler Yeats' daughters were also literary. Susan Mary Yeats [Lily] and Elizabeth Corbet [Lollie, Lolly] Yeats founded [with Evelyn Gleeson] the Dun Emer Press (later the Cuala Press). John Butler Yeats was a friend of Irish painter Hugh Lane. John Butler Yeats has also written essays and reviews.

Hogan, Robert, ed., Dictionary of Irish Literature. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Inc., 1979), pp. 697, 700-701.Nicola Gordon Bowe, "Yeats, Susan Mary [Lily] (1866–1949)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61425 (accessed April 10, 2007).

 Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of four autograph letters signed by John Butler Yeats, of which two include sketches in the body of the document. Three undated letters are addressed to Miss Morslar. The other letter is dated February 21, 1920 and is addressed to Miss Buss.

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

 Detailed Contents List 14F293John Butler Yeats letters1920 and undated Four autograph letters signed, 8 pp.