Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

Letters and manuscripts. Nearly all of the thirty eight letters are written to his agents and are concerned with the publishing of his writings. The manuscripts include the first typescript draft of his play"The Strike at Arlingford" (X825M782/W/1890) and portions of A STORY-TELLER'S HOLIDAY. Bound with "The Strike at Arlingford" are four letters written by Moore to the Marquise Clara Lanza, dated August 1889-April 1890

The collection contains 24 letters of Padraic Colum to various persons dating from 1916 to 1968. Also, several of Colum's manuscripts, notably three volumes containing drafts of his play "Balloon", exerpts from his novel The Flying Swan (1957), one typescript and three manuscript poems, printed material, and photographs.

Correspondence, manuscript, document, autograph and photographs of and by Irish, English and American poets. The letters are by Samuel Austin Allibone, John Erskine, Padraic Colum, Lord Dunsany, Frances Anne Kemble, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Daniel O'Connell, Theodore Parker, and John Greenleaf Whittier. There is an a.ms.s. poem by John Quincy Adams; manuscripts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Padraic Colum, and Daniel 0'Connell, as well as G. M. Fuller's autograph and photographs of Dunsany, Longfellow and James Russell Lowell. There is also a custom receipt signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an uncataloged portrait of Longfellow, and a charcoal portrait of G. K. Chesterton by Ivan Opffer