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Richard Ellmann papers

Series 1: Research files: W.B. Yeats

Collection 1988-012

Box 284 Inventory of the Yeats material compiled by University of Tulsa graduate student Owen Williams, 1994-1995 and later edited by Sidney F.  Huttner.  
     
Folder 1 Gay Wilson Allen, New Jersey, to Ellmann, New College, Oxford.  Typed and signed letter, 14 Jul 1979.  Provides some information about the "Emerson Plotinian passage."  His Emerson biography published in 1981.

H.  William J.  Becker, Dublin, to Ellmann, Harvard.  Handwritten and signed letter, 24 Aug 1949, 10p with envelope.  In reference Michael (?) Baker, Jeffares, H.O.  White, [Professor Rodhim].

H.W.J.  Becker, Dublin, to Ellmann, Harvard.  Handwritten and signed letter, 28 Dec 1949, 10p with envelope.  In reference to the Craig-Yeats relation, Ezra Pound, Florence Farr, the Fays, Abbey Theatre, Eric Bentley.

Blavatsky Lodge to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter, 28 May 1947, 3p.  Yeats's association with the Theosophical Society in England.
 
Dairine Coffey, New York, to Ellmann, Northwestern.  Typed and signed letter, 14 Feb 1966, 2p.  She wants advice about selling Yeats material, including Wandering of Oisin page proofs.  Granddaughter of George Coffey, archaeologist.

Dairine Coffey from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 26 Feb 1966.  Gives her enthusiastic advice. 

Emeline Dale, Madison, WI to Ellmann.  Handwritten and signed letter, 17 Nov 1967.  English student wants pronunciation of "gyre."

Dennis Dobson Ltd.  Publishers to Ellmann, Harvard.  Typed and signed letter, 14 Mar 1950.  Cannot give publication date yet.

Professor Kim Jong Gil from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 30 Apr 1966.  Thanks for the complimentary copy of Phoenix.

Warwick Gould, Royal Holloway College, University of London to Ellmann.  Typed and initialled letter, 26 Apr 1984.  Including papers and documents. 

Warwick Gould from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 3 May 1984.  Thanks for the material.

David Greene, New York University to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter, 6 Dec 1954.  David Greene praises Ellmann's Identity of Yeats and talks about other works by various authors.

Joseph Hone, Co.  Wicklow to Ellmann, Harvard.  Handwritten and signed letter, 21 Dec.  In reference MacBride, W.B. Yeats.

[Frank Kermode] , Cheshire, to Ellmann, Northwestern.  Typed and signed letter, 22 Dec 1964.  Tells Ellmann he cannot introduce Yeats because it makes him nauseous.  In reference to Peter Ure, Tom Henn.

Erich Krois, Vienna from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 6 Mar 1956.  Ellmann needs style sheet for German language encyclopedia entry. 

James B.  Leslie, Honorary Secretary of the Library and Ecclesiastical Records Committee of the Church of Ireland to Ellmann.  Handwritten and signed letter, 21 Apr 1947, with envelope.  Leslie says he doesn't have any references to the Yeats's family, but Edward A.  Myles may have. 

Erich Linder, Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale, Milano, Italia, from Ellmann, Roma.  Carbon copy typed letter, 27 Feb 1961.  Ellmann asks if Linder wants to handle German translation rights of Man and the Masks for 10%.

Miss Linnet, from Ellmann,  Northwestern.  Carbon copy typed letter, 2 Oct 1964.  Ellmann asks for 25 more copies of Identity of Yeats from the publisher.  Notices printing errors.

James P.  McCormick, Wayne University, to Ellmann, Harvard.  Typed and signed letter, 5 Jan 1950, with envelope.  Wants to meet Ellmann, praises his book on Yeats.

Giorgia Melchiori, Italian Radio to Ellmann.  Radio script in Italian for "Poesia Visionaria: Blake E Yeats."

[Edw.  A.  Myles ?], Tullylish Rectory, Gilford to Ellmann.  Handwritten and signed letter, 26 Apr 1947, 4p with envelope.  Rector provides some information about the Yeats family for Ellmann.

Leonard E.  Nathan, University of California, Berkeley, to Ellmann, Northwestern.  3 Nov 1964.  Requests permission to quote passages from Identity of Yeats in his book Figures in a Dance: W.B.  Yeats's Development as a Tragic Dramatist, 1884-1939, Columbia UP

New York Times Book Review Queries Editor.  Ellmann outlines a reading of "A Prayer for My Son."

S.  Oshima, Waseda University, Tokyo, to Ellmann, New College, Oxford.  Typed and signed letter, 26 Oct 1973, 4p with envelope.  In reference to Beckett, J.B. Yeats, and W.B. Yeats.  Includes clippings from Oshima's writings about an incident Ellmann included in James Joyce.

Donald R.  Pearce, Dublin from Ellmann.  Carbon cpy typed letter.  Provides requested information.

Donald R.  Pearce, Dublin, to Ellmann, Harvard.  Handwritten and signed letter, 1 Jun 1950, 2p with envelope.  Has received material.

James Reeves, Esq.  from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 12 Oct 1959.  Ellmann is trying to purchase Laura Riding letters on behalf of the Northwestern librarian.  See below

James Reeves, Bucks, England to Ellmann,  Northwestern.  Typed and signed letter, 27 Sep 1959, 2p.  Offers four Manuscript letters by Laura Riding in Majorca to W.B. Yeats.  Provides transcriptions of the letters.

Dr.  Francis I.  Regardie, Hollywood, California to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter, 10 Dec 1945, 2p with envelope.  Chiropractor answers Ellmann's questions about Golden Dawn.

Stephen Reynolds to W.B. Yeats.  Typed transcription of a handwritten and signed letter, 24 Jun 1903, 3p.  Wants information on a Blake drawing in Yeats's edition.

Madam from Ellmann.  Photocopy of a handwritten and signed letter, undated, 2p.  Yeats responds with information.

Rev.  Raymond F.  Roselip, Notre Dame, to Ellmann, Harvard.  Typed and signed letter, 14 Oct 1949, 2p with envelope.  Wants transcript of Yeats's London lecture "Contemporary Poetry."

Roselip, Notre Dame, to Ellmann, Harvard.  Typed and signed letter, 25 Oct 1949, with envelope.  Also wants addresses of Desmond Flower and Joseph Hone. 

Vinod Sena, University of Pittsburgh, to Ellmann, Yale.  Typed and signed letter, 31 May 1969.  In reference to Rupin Desai and thanks Ellmann for his excellent Yeats studies.

Frederick Sinclair, Borough Librarian, London, to Ellmann, Highland Park.  Typed and signed letter, 8 Aug 1947, 2p with envelope.  In reference to Joseph Hone, Yeats's Woburn residence, Havelock Ellis's "Memoirs," J.B. Yeats.

Frederick Sinclair from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 6 Sep 1947.  Thanks Sinclair for the information.

Frederick Sinclair, Borough Librarian, London, to Ellmann, Harvard.  Typed and signed letter, 1 Jun 1951, 2p with envelope.  Sinclair informs Ellmann of a commemorative tablet affixed to Yeats's Woburn residence.  Order of the Proceedings which directed the ceremony enclosed.  Originally in a folder entitled "Yeats Clippings."

Miss T.M.  Swift, Manchester, to Ellmann, Harvard.  Handwritten and signed letter, 13 Feb 1950, 2p with envelope.  M.A.  student points out an error in The Man and the Masks.

Time Magazine, New York, from Ellmann, Rome.  Carbon copy typed letter, 15 Jun 1961.  Points out an error in a recent articles concerning Yeats's proposal to Iseult Gonne.

Count von Ostheim from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 14 Nov 1954.  Ellmann thanks the Count for sending clippings ref Reuben J.  Dodd.  Sean O'Faolain brought Ellmann and the Count together.  Originally in a folder entitled "Yeats Clippings."

Professor H. O.  [White], Trinity College, Dublin, to Ellmann, Northwestern.  Typed and signed letter, 6 Oct 1954, with envelope.  Says The Identity of Yeats is the best book on Yeats yet.  In reference Curtis Bradford, Grinnell College, and Dr.  Peter Allt.

[H.O. White], Trinity College, Dublin to Ellmann.  Postcard, 9 Nov 1946.  Gives Ellmann an address of a 19th-C.  Dublin historian.

Eleanor Wiles, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, to Ellmann, Harvard.  Typed and signed letter, 19 Dec 1949, with envelope.  In reference to Mr. Lovett's book.

Basil (Wilson), College Historical Society, Trinity College, Dublin, to Ellmann, Harvard.  Handwritten and signed letter, 16 July 1950, 4p with envelope.  In reference to Yeats film, Lennox Robinson, Siabhan McKenna, Austin Clarke's review, Maurice James Cray, Joseph Hone, Arland Usher, H.O., Henn.  Also includes program of "W.B. Yeats--A Tribute" by the National Film Institute of Ireland.

Leoline L. Wright to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter, 4 Feb 1946, 3p with envelope and handwritten postscript.  Provides information about the early Theosophical Society in Dublin.  In reference to to Dublin Hermetic Society, Dr.  Charles J.  Ryan, Charles Johnston, Blavatsky, Golden Dawn, Macgregor Mathers, Fred J.  Dick.

  
     
Folder 2 Bob [Silvers], New York Review of Books, to Ellmann, New College Oxford.  Typed and signed, 18 Oct 1978, 2p.  Wants Ellmann to cut Yeats piece from 8700 words to 4500 words.  Asks about the Stevens book.  With review.  Originally found in folder entitled, "Yeats: The Man and the Masks."

Bruce, University of Rochester to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter, 23 Oct.  Praises Richard Murphy and warns that Donald Torchiana is about to pan Murphy's work.

[Charles].  Typed and signed letter, 18 Aug 1947, 3p.  Candid evaluation of a submission.

Curtis from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 16 Apr 1962.  Ellmann returns his evaluation of article on Maud Gonne and Yeats with detailed comments.

Ellsworth [Mason] to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter, 12 Aug 1946, 5p.  Bantering letter refs to Sean O'Casey, Garvan Collection, Yeats, Clarke's Collected Poems, Tinker, [James T.] Babb, Gogarty, Auden.  p2, p3 have handwritten comments on Yeats's poems in Ellmann's hand.

[Erin] to Dave.  Typed and signed letter, 18 March 1947, 2p.  Proofreaders comments on a chapter on "style."

[Evelyn], Dublin to Ellmann, Harvard.  Typed and signed letter, 23 Nov 1948, 4p with envelope.  Tells Ellmann about the Yeats funeral and refs Michael Yeats, George Yeats, Valera, Sean O'Faolain, Frank MacManus, Charles McKinley, Stan, and Pat MacMahon.

Peter, Lansdowne, Greystones.  Typed and signed letter, undated, with envelope.  In reference to Desmond FitzGerald, Yeats.

Peter from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 9 Jan 1977.  Ellmann returns opinion of Peter's Manuscript on Yeats and symbology.

Tom [Henn] from Ellmann.  Carbon cpy typed letter, 29 Dec 1964.  Ellmann praises book on Yeats. 

[?] All Souls College, Oxford to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter, 2 Jan 1981, 2p.  In reference to Voltaire's mistress, Madame du Chatelet, Saint-Lambert, Noyes, A VIision.  Originally in a folder labeled "O'Sullivan".  Second page is photocopy of a handwritten and signed letter by Yeats.

[?], Wadham College, Oxford to Ellmann.   Photocopy of a typed and signed letter, undated, two copies.  Professor who had met Yeats lauds Ellmann's book and comments on Yeats's shifting beliefs

  
     

Folder 3

Small candid photo labeled "Yeats at Rapallo in 1928".
Packet of photos of Dublin locations.
Prints and negatives.		  
     

Folder 4

 Elizabeth [Corbet] Yeats, Cuala Industries, to [Sean] O'Faolain.  Handwritten and signed letter, 10 Jul 1929, 4p.  Elizabeth Yeats liked his article "Four Irish Generations" in The Commonweal.  
     

Folder 5

 Mrs. Yeats, Dublin from Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter/carbon copy typed letter, 19 Aug 1945.  Ellmann asks to meet her.

Misses Yeats from Ellmann.  Typed note/carbon copy typed note, 22 Aug 1945.  Asks to meet her again.

Mrs. Yeats from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 2 Oct 1945, 2p.  Rough draft thanking Mrs. Yeats for Irish hospitality.

Poem.  "Wisdom and Knowledge (or John Hermit and his Friends)"   Typescript, 24 March 1929. 

George (Georgina) Yeats to Ellmann, London.  Typed and signed note, 23 Aug 1945, with envelope.  In reference to to Book Fair, Thomas Davis Centenary Celebrations, Cuala Press.  The letterhead, The Cuala Press, is not crossed out as in subsequent notes and letters.

George Yeats to Ellmann, Washington, DC.  Typed and signed letter, 19 Nov 1945, with envelope.  George requests American press clippings regarding the Ezra Pound trial in Washington.  In reference to to Betty Rivers and Sturge Moore.

George Yeats to Mrs. Ellmann, Detroit, Michigan.  Typed and signed letter, 21 Jan 1946, with envelope.  A thank you letter for food gifts received.  upside down at bottom of page is a typed note to Dick in different font--cigarettes  were missing.  In reference to to Dr.  Hayes and Hone [Joseph].

George Yeats.  Handwritten and signed note/typed and signed note, 21 Aug 1946.  In reference to to O'Higgins, Arthur Cox, "John" portrait of W.B. Yeats.  Typed and signed note is a thank you note.

George Yeats to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter, 19 Nov 1946.  "Copy" written twice in upper-left hand corner.  Letter asks for art supplies for Anne.  refs to two shops.

George Yeats to Ellmann  Handwritten and signed note, 6 Dec 1946, with envelope.  In reference to Ethel Mannin. 

George Yeats to Ellmann.  Postcard, 12 March 1947.  George Yeats has been ill and bed-ridden for two weeks.

George Yeats toEllmann, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Handwritten and signed letter, 2 Dec 1947, with envelope.  In reference to [Mishard-Faub]; [Macmillan; A.  Norman] Jeffares; [Herbert Read], a Routledge reader; Allan Wade; Olive Craig.  Also refers to Harvard and "the neurotic girl."

George Yeats to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter,18 Jan 1949.  A thank you for a complimentary copy of a book.  Also includes the advice not to be bothered by criticisms from Edmund Wilson "who does not know his stuff" or Horace Gregory Reynolds, etc.

George Yeats to Ellmann, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Handwritten and signed letter, 1 Jan 1951, with envelope.  Birth announcement of grandchild.

George Yeats to Ellmann.  Handwritten and signed letter, 22 Apr 1953.  Specifies the inclusion of a copy of a typed letter from W.B. Yeats to Joyce to be included in a Faber and Faber collection.

Northwestern from Ellmann, Baile Atha Cliath.  Envelope, 5 Nov 1953.

George Yeats from Ellmann.  Typed letter, 19 Feb 1954, 2p.  Birth announcement of Maud Esther.  In reference to Whittaker--a Yale grad student who wrote a Manuscript about Yeats's theory of history.  In reference to Sean O'Faolain regarding his lecture circuit.  Second sheet ref to Henry Regnery (Chicago publishing firm).

George Yeats from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 6 Dec 1954.  In reference to various reviewers of Ellmann's second Book.  Austin Clarke's "nasty review," Henn, Herbert Read, Day Lewis, Raymond Mortimer, Michael Tippett, B.  Ifor Evans, Hugh I.  lanson Faussett, Edith Sitwell, and Dorothy Sayers.  Ellmann talks about Joyce work "going ahead slowly."  Asks George if he may dedicate the Joyce biography to her.

George Yeats to Dick and Mary.  Typed and signed Christmas card, 21 Dec [1954].

George Yeats from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed note, 21 Mar 1956.  Ellmann will be in Dublin April 4-7.

Norman Pearson from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed and signed letter, 19 Oct 1956.  Regarding buying of portrait of Yeats from George.  Also refers to Yale, and "the Institute."

George Yeats from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed and signed letter, 19 Oct 1956.  Mentions that Pearson will be attempting to procure a portrait from her for the Yale Library--the great contemporary poets.  In reference to to Garvan [John Garvin] who collects Irish Literature for Yale.  Pearson lauded as a co-editor with Auden of an anthology of English poetry, as a co-editor with Stephen Vincent Benet of the Oxford Anthology of American Poetry, as a compiler and editor of Hawthorne's Journals and Letters.

George Yeats from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 16 Apr 1957.  Condolences for Jack Yeats's death.  In reference to to Sean O'Faolain.  Joyce biography is nearing completion.  Ellmann's birthday is Mar 15, 1918.  He says Joyce will be the last Irish biography.

George Yeats from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed and signed letter, 9 Jun 1958.  Letter of introduction on behalf of Donald Torchiana who will be doing his dissertation on Yeats and the 18th-century and traveling to Dublin soon.

George Yeats from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed and signed letter, 12 Oct 1958.  In reference to Donald Torchiana, finishing of Joyce bio, and Ford Foundation.  Asks for permission to use her name in dedication of Joyce bio.  Says he met G.  13 years ago.

George Yeats to Ellmann, Northwestern.  Handwritten and signed letter, 18 Nov 1958, with envelope.  She allows his dedication to her in the biography of Joyce.

George Yeats from Ellmann.  Typed letter, 12 Oct 1961.  Ellmann recommends Daniel Hoffman, poet and teacher at Swarthmore.

George Yeats to Mary and Dick.  Handwritten and signed letter, 15 Jan 1962.  Thanks for complimentary copy of Joyce's bio.  In reference to Ellmann's defense in Chicago of Tropic of Cancer.  New York Times.  Photocopied obituary, 26 Aug 1968.  Article entitled "Georgina Yeats, Widow of Irish Poet, Dead at 75" with a subtitle "Husband's Biographer Called Marriage Major Factor in His Rise to Fame."  Three copies.

George Fay from Ellmann.  Handwritten and signed letter/carbon copy handwritten and signed letter,11 Dec.

George Yeats to Ellmann.  Postcard, undated.  Supper invitation

George Yeats to Ellmann.  Handwritten and signed letter, undated, with envelope.  Appears to be a note accompanying a complimentary copy of "Diarmiud and Grania."

George Yeats to Ellmann, Northwestern.  Handwritten and signed letter, 17 Nov [19--], with envelope.  Congratulations on Ellmann's recent book on Joyce and Yeats.

  
     

Folder 6

 Jack Yeats to Sean O'Faolain.  Handwritten letter with signature removed, 2 Aug 1930, with envelope.  Would like to meet again, but no information available on W.B. Yeats.

Jack Yeats to O'Faolain.  Handwritten and signed letter, 2 Oct 1930, 4p.  Information that he requested.  Housed in portfolio.

Jack Yeats to Sean O'Faolain.  Handwritten letter with signature removed, 28 Feb 1938.  Short letter saying he will be no help for material concerning his brother.

London to Jack Yeats, Dublin.  Typed and signed letter/carbon copy typed letter, 19 Aug 1945.  Wants to meet with Jack about W.B. Yeats.

Jack Yeats to Ellmann.  Handwritten and signed letter, 24 Aug 1945, with envelope.  Will meet Ellmann in Dublin.

Jack Yeats to Ellmann.  Handwritten and signed letter, 23 J 1950, 2p.  Thanks Ellmann for complimentary copy of Yeats book.  D, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.  Program from "Jack B.  Yeats.  A First Retrospective American Exhibition, 1951-1952."  D, Hayden Gallery, MIT.  Program from "Jack Butler Yeats, 1871-1957."  		 
     

Folder 7

 Jack Yeats letters to E.  Ellis.  Correspondence between Jack Yeats and Ellis, and Edward Dowden, George Yeats.  Typed transcriptions.  
     

Folder 8

 Bob to [Ellmann].  Tyed note, undated.  "latest letter in the Yeats Affair."

David Lawrence, Travel Itinerary, to Dr.  Robert D.  Mayo, Northwestern English Chair.  Typed and signed letter, 27 Mar 1967.  Senator Michael B.  Yeats's and wife's arrival time.

Michael Yeats to Ellmann, Dublin.  Typed and signed letter, 21 Sep 1968, with envelope.  Thank you for your condolences over George.  Cuala Press will re-open.

Michael Yeats from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 14 Jun 1969.  Informs him that Robert Langbaum wants to write a new bio of Yeats and is a capable scholar.

Michael Yeats from Ellmann.   Carbon copy typed letter, 22 Aug 1969.  Informs him that Colton Johnson wants to write on uncollected prose of W.B.Yeats, [it was published by Columbia University Press, 1970].

Michael Yeats to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter, 21 Jul 1978.  Discrepancy about George's birthday because two birth certificates.

Michael Yeats from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed note, 27 Jul 1978.  Thanks for info.

Typescript.  Appears to introduce a lecture by Senator Michael Yeats on his father as a public figure.		  
     

Folder 9

 Notes from J.B. Yeats's Letters (Hone Edition), 2p.  Transcribed letters, 19p, from W.B.Yeats to his father, J.B.Yeats.  Excerpts from letters by J.B. Yeats, 8p.

W.B. Yeats to J.B. Yeats, his father. Photocopy of a typed and signed letter, 14p.

Transcribed letters, 17p, between W.B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson, George Moore, Edward Garnett, Standish O'Grady, Lady Gregory.  Photostats.		  
     

Folder 10

W.B. Yeats to John O'Leary, 1887-1903.  Typed transcriptions of letters held in the National Library, 67p, between Yeats and R.N.D. Wilson, Lane, Florence Farr, G.  Foden, Sean O'Faolain, John O'Leary, Arthur Symons, K Tynan, Lily Yeats, Barnes.

Correspondence between AE and Sean O'Faolain (typed transcriptions).		  
     

Folder 11

 W.B. Yeats letters to Mabel Beardsley.  Photocopies of typed transcriptions, 26p.  Transcribed letters, 11p.

W.B. Yeats to Ellmann.  Photocopy of a handwritten and signed letter, undated, 2p.  In reference to "Deirdre."  		 
     

Folder 12

Handwritten transcription, 15p, of Yeats's letters to [Joseph P.  Quinn].

Typed excerpts from essays by J.B. Yeats, 9p.  Typed transcription of letters and excerpts, 9p, between J.B. Yeats and W.B. Yeats and [Joseph P.  Quinn].  Typed transcription of correspondence between J.B. Yeats and W.B. Yeats.  In reference to Swinburne, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron,  Browning, Keats, 2p.

"Jack B.  YeatsIn reference toTyped program for Willard Gallery exhibition of his art, March 1962.

  
     

Folder 13

 Correspondence between W.B. Yeats and Gordon Craig, Dowden, Lafcadio Hearn, Haldane, Stephen Gwynn, Joseph Hone, P.S.  Hegarty, Edith Lyttleton, Miss Jacobs, Sturge Moore, Joseph P.  Quinn, Wade, A.B.  Walkley, Frank Fay, Lady Gregory, Miss Horniman, and from AE to Sean O'Faolain and Russell to Joseph Quinn.  Typed transcriptions.  Misc materials.  
     

Folder 14

 Transcribed letters between Yeats and William Fay, Frank Fay, Arnold Dolmetsch, Miss Horniman, Martyn, Dr.  Barry, J.M.  Synge, A.E.  Waite, Padraic Colum, George Wyndham, George Moore, Michael Davitt, Rabindranath Tagore, Augustus Birrell, Will Rothenstein, Charles Ricketts, Dunsany, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, James Stephens, Jack Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Robert J.  Rowlette, Elizabeth Radcliffe, Mrs. Harris, The New Statesman and Nation.  
     
  6 Feb 1951, with envelope.  Newspaper clipping review of R.  Henn's The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats.  
  "Preliminary Examination of ER [Elizabeth Radcliffe] script."  p1-4.  
  "Leo Africanus."  Manuscript in Mrs. Yeats possession, p1-12.  
  "Spiritus Mundi."  Manuscript in Mrs. Yeats possession, p1-7.  
  Typed corrections of Yeats for Agnes Tobin's poetry.  3p.
Typed poems, one by Robert Lowell, 3p.		  
  "Stray Pages of Vision (II)." 2p.  
  "The W.B. Yeats--Dorothy Wellesley Correspondence."  
  Typescript excerpts of series, p1-9.  
  Letters between Yeats and O'Leary, Russell, 3p.  

 

 Miscellaneous  9p, typed transcriptions.  
     

Folder 15

 Yeats and Olivia Shakespeare [sic] letters, typed transcriptions, 57p.   
     

Folder 16

 Letters between Yeats and George Russell, Iseult Gonne, W.T. Horton, Fiona MacLeod, William Sharp, MacGregor Mathers and Mrs., AE.  Typed transcriptions, 24p.  
  W.B. Yeats, Woburn.  
  Lady Gregory [to Ellmann].  Handwritten and signed letter 9 Jan 1905, 2p.  Typed transcription.  
  Account of MacBride family saga.  
     

Folder 17

 "Pial Diary."  
  Typed excerpts.  p1-7.  
  Typed transcriptions, p1-4, between Yeats and Ezra Pound.  "Diary 1908." Typed excerpts.  18p.  Notes on early versions of Yeats's drama, 4p. Miscellaneous,  6p.  
     

Folder 18

Yeats and Ethel Mannin letters.  Typed transcriptions, 20p.  
     

Folder 19  

"Yeats: Goldolphin School Reports."  2p.  Typed copy of a Tribute to Thomas Davis.  
  Mr. O'Hegarty from Dublin.  Typed letter, 15 Oct 1946.  Possible questions Ellmann will ask.  Yeats poems, 2p.  
  Typed transcription of letter from B.G.  Tours to Joseph Hone concerning Yeats's school days at Goldolphin.  
     

Folder 20 

W.B. Yeats and George Russell letters, 66p.  (typed transcriptions).  
     

Folder 21 

Letters between Yeats and T. Fisher Unwin, Mr. Palmer, Lilly Yeats, Golden Dawn, Celtic Order, Sean O'Casey.  Typed transcriptions.  
  Yeats letters with Ethel Mannin and Wilde.  Copies.  
     

Folder 20 

W.B. Yeats and James Joyce Letters.  Transcripts and photocopies.  
  Letters between Yeats and Ezra Pound, Lady Gregory, AE, Olivia Shakespear, Joyce.  Typed transcriptions.  
  George Yeats.  Handwritten and signed letter, 1 Aug 1961?, with envelope.  George Yeats can meet Ellmann for a few minutes.  
     

Folder 21

 Letters between Yeats and Lady Gregory, Henderson Abbey Theatre and Irish Plays.  Typed transcriptions.      
     

Folder 22 

Yeats's poems copied by Seumas O'Sullivan.  Typed transcripts.  
     
Box 285 Yeats Writings (transcribed and copied manuscripts)  

Folder 1

 "Uncollected contributions to periodicals".  Holograph transcriptions on poor quality yellow paper.  Various drafts and other notes intermingled.  1947 Irwin Ellmann Typed and signed letter.  
     

Folder 2

 Is the Order of the R.R.  & A.C.  to Remain a Magical Order? Typed transcript.  
     

Folder 3

 "The Poet and the Actress."  Poems and miscellaneous.  Typed transcripts.  
     

Folder 4

 "Speech for banquet.  August 2, 1924.  Photostat. 
"Divorce: Speech in Senate June 10, 1925".  Photostat.		  
     
Folder 5 "Extract from the Shadowy WatersIn reference toPhotostat.  
     

Folder 6

 The Speckled Bird.  ccTms of Yeats's incomplete novel with prologue and afterword, p1-158 in binder.  
     

Folder 7

 "Trembling of the Veil."  Typed transcript fragments.
"Autobiographies", first draft.  Typed transcript.
Notes and Ellmann drafts.		  
     

Folder 8

 "Vision I".  Typed transcripts of fragments.  
     

Folder 9

 Typed transcripts of fragments, notes, etc.  
     

Folder 10

 "Summary of Microfilms of Yeats Manuscripts / Harvard Library".  Typed list.  
     

Folder 11

 "The Sligo of W.B. Yeats".  20p Mimeograph.  
     

Folder 12

 "Lords and Commons / Translations from the Irish / by Frank O'Connor (with corrections in pencil by W.B. Yeats)".  Photostats.   
     

Folder 13

 Press cuttings by and about Yeats.  
     

Folder 14

 Press cuttings by and about Yeats.  Primarily obituaries but including some later articles.  
     
Box 286 Ellmann's early notebooks, notes and writings about Yeats  

Folder 1

 "Interviews with Mrs. Yeats, Frank O'Connor, and others about W.B. Yeats, 1946."  Handwritten clothbound notebook of various interviews with dates.  Also includes typed notes, 6p.  
     

Folder 2

 A companion notebook to item above.  Ellmann's name and "United Arts Club, Dublin" address on first page.  
     

Folder 3

 Typed loose-leaf notebook pages of various books on and by W.B. Yeats with section tabs: Villiers, Axel; Midnight Court; Seanad Eireann Debates; Autobiographies; Berkeley; Shri Purohit Swami; The Winding Stair; Essays, 1931-36; Dramatis Personae; Wheels and Butterflies; The King of the Great Clock Tower; The Herne's Egg; Oxford Book of Modern Verse; A Vision.  
     

Folder 4

 Handwritten composition book with section tabs: Equinox, Dew and Light, Mathers in Paris, Eglinton, Wm.  Sharp, Kath.  Tynan, Masefield, Ernest Boyd, Crowley Confessions, Westcote Data of Rosicrucians, Mathers and Collectanea, Article--Where is Nothing.

Handwritten composition book.		  
     

Folder 5

 Two handwritten composition books.  Pocket notebook.  Pad of check stubs.  
     

Folder 6

 Notebook with "United Arts Club, Dublin" address on flyleaf, first entry dated 17 November 1946.  
  Pocket notebook with Boswell's Hotel address on pastedown.  
  "Alwych" pocket notebook.  
     

Folder 7

 Packet of material circa 1950 for a proposed "biographical symposium on Yeats".  Includes clipped articles, notes, correspondence with Knopf (which appears to have declined) and the following four letters:

Alegernon Blackwood to [Ellmann].  Typed and signed letter, 20 December 1945.  "...It was due to a suggestion from Yeat that I joined the Golden Dawn."

Arthur Machen to [Ellmann].  Handwritten, 15 January 1946.  "I am much obliged by your cordial letter...."

Gilbert Murray to [Ellmann].  Typed and signed letter, 28 October 1949.  "...  Some-one asked him [Yeats] what it was like working with Miss Horniman and he answered (in a deep note), 'It is like lions, like tigers, and (high scream) hyenas'"..."

Arthur Walery to [Ellmann].  Handwritten and signe letter, 16 December 1946.  Comments on Pound and Yeats ("discussed Hawk's Well etc. with him..."

  
     

Folder 8

 Chronology of Yeats.  Typescript.  
     
Box 287 Ellmann notes, mostly on Yeats's poetry.  

Folder 1

 Miscellaneous items which appear to center around Yeats's decision to have the Steinach operation.  Includes composition notebook.   
     

Folder 2-4

 "Writings and Notes" (apparently W.B. Yeats's).  
     

Folder 5

 "Brief notes on Yeats plays".  
     

Folder 6

 "Yale Notes".  
     

Folder 7-8

 "Notes on Yeats poems".  
     

Folder 9

 "Notes on Yeats poems".  Includes longer Ellmann drafts than two previous files.  
     
Box 288 Ellmann's published books.  
1: W.B. Yeats and the Poetic Frontier.  Ellmann's doctoral dissertation proposal.  
     
2: Triton Among the Streams.  Typescript of Ellmann's Yale doctoral dissertation with numerous notes included, p i-404.  Incomplete typescript and draft fragments of chapters interspersed with notes to be incorporated with Table of Contents: I.  How to Read a Yeats Poem; II.  Yeats and His Images and Philosophy; III.  Yeats and Belief--Heaven; IV.  Syntax; V.  Revision; VI.  Values; VII.  Appendix--Crowley, G.D.  [Golden Dawn] Rituals, 26p.  
     

Folder 3

 Yeats:  The Man and the Masks.  Drafts of the original edition and rewriting for the second are intermingled here; a minimal attempt has been made to organize them chronologically.   
     
Box 289-290 Yeats:  The Man and the Masks.  Drafts of the original edition and rewriting for the second are intermingled here; a minimal attempt has been made to organize them chronologically.  
  Preface draft with photocopy of handwritten revisions, p 1-20.  Photocopy of the typed preface draft, p 1-22.
Photocopy of the typed preface revised fragment, p 1-13.
Photocopy of the typed preface fragment with handwritten revisions, p 1-20.
Photocopy of the typed preface with handwritten revisions, p 1-14. 		 
   
  Typed fragment, possibly a pre-writing exercise for the preface, p 1-8.
Typed fragment, possibly an early version of the preface.  p 1-4.		  
  Photocopy of a typed draft of p8, 14, 19, 23.
Typed galley of preface, proof marks, p xi-xxxii.		  
  Photocopy of the typed galley of preface, proof marks, p x-xxxii.
Typed galley second edition, p1-331.
Photocopy of the typed preface with proof marks, p 1-21.		  
  Typed preface, p 1-22.
Typed preface, revised, p 1-17.
Typed preface fragment, minor revisions, p 1-29.
Typed preface with handwritten revisions, p 1-20.		  
  Annabel Jenkins, Oxford Univeristy Press to Ellmann.  Handwritten and signed note, 28 Jul 1978.  She is returning the enclosures of a previous parcel.  
  Ellmann to Robyn.  Typed letter, undated.  Author wants this to be called the second edition, even though index problems may occur.  Also asks that Peter Ure quotations be incorporated.  
  Peter du Sautoy, Faber and Faber, London from Ellmann.  Carbon copy typed letter, 19 Aug 1960.  Ellmann sends his corrections to Faber for Man and the Masks.  Enclosed are 26p of corrections.  
 

Typed preface, p1-29.
Typed preface fragment with handwritten revisions, p1-2, 5-28.
Typed preface with handwritten revisions, p1-20.
Photocopy typescript preface with handwritten revisions, p1-21.
Photocopy of a typed preface with photocopied handwritten revisions.  Photocopy of handwritten revisions, p1-24.  Typed draft fragment with handwritteh revisions, p14-21.  Typed fragment with handwritten revisions, p2-6.Dust jacket, Dutton Paperback/Everyman. 

 
  Miscellaneous typescript fragments, 14p.
Prints of photographs used in second edition.
Clipped reviews and articles concerning Yeats:The Man & the Masks.		  
     
Box 291 Identity of Yeats  
  Galley copy of preface and index.

"Chapter IV: Iconography."  Typed draft with handwritten revisions, p 55-60a-73a-76.  Includes 2 notes (p56, p74)."Prologue to Shadowy Waters."

"Chapter V: The New Skin."  Typed draft with handwritten revisions, p78-84, 87-91, 117-118, 129, 113, 108-109, 85, 85b, 85, 87, 54b, 55b

Misc notes, 6p.  Misc for Identity of Yeats--mostly used.

"The Poetry of Yeats."  Chapter III: A Bardic Creed."  Typescript of chapter with handwritten revisions, p34-54.

Chapter IV: The First System.

"Chapter VIII: Astigmatism and the Later Poetry."  Typescript of what appears to be material related to A Vision, p123-124, 126-127.  Typed notes, 13p.

Envelope containing typed fragments with handwritten revisions of several chapters: "Chapter VI: Rhetoric," p94, 96-107; "Chapter VI: Style;" Chapter VI: Style and Rhetoric."   "Yeats and Swedenborg." 

Typed notes on Swedenborg's The Spritual Diary.  p1-8."  Axel."
 
Typescript, p1-10.  Misc notes, p1-6.

"Chapter VII [Symbols and Rituals in the Later Poetry]." Typed  fragment with minor handwritten revisions, p1-5, 7-10.

"Chapter VII."  Typed notes and fragments, 12p.  Astigmatism and the Later Poetry."  Chapter II: Astigmatism and Poetry."  Typed fragment, p1-10.

Notes and misc, 33p.Chapter IX: Those Masterful Images.  Typed fragments, 19p.

Typed fragments and misc, 4p.  Later Poems.  Handwritten note fragments, 6p.

Symbols."  Axel."  Typed fragment, p3-10.

"Chapter VII: Symbols and Rituals in the Later Poetry."  Typed draft with handwritten revisions, p108-122, 124-127, 176-177, 183, 191, 199, 2p.

Other materials, including a folder of clipped reviews, not further organized.

  
     
Box 292 Eminent Domain materials are loosely organized but include the following:  
  "Gazebos and Gashouses--Yeats and Auden."   
  Ellmann to Mrs. Graves, Secretary, Northwestern Dept of English.  Typed and signed letter, undated.  Ellmann specifies to send "Gazebos and Gashouses" and "Oscar and Oisin" to Whitney Blake, "Gazebos and Gashouses" to Theodore Solotaroff.

Typed draft with handwritten revisions.  p1-9.

Carbon copy typed draft with handwritten revisions, p1-8.

Typed draft with handwritten revisions, p1-8.

Photocopied typed draft with handwritten revisions, p1-16a-20.

Typed draft with handwritten revisions, p7-11a-12.

Typed draft with one handwritten revision, p1-19.

Typed draft with handwritten revisions, p1-29.

Typed draft fragment, p16-16a-16b-19.

Typed draft fragments, p1, 5, 18a, 26a, 20, 20.		  
     
  "EZ and the Old Billyam" materials are loosely organized but include the following:   
     
  Eva Hesse, Munich to  Ellmann, Northwestern.  Typed and signed letter, 17 Jan 1965, with envelope.  Eva Hesses asks Ellmann to contribute a paper on the Pound-Yeats relationship for a German symposium.

Ellmann to Eva Hesse.  Carbon copy typed letter, 6 Feb 1965.  Agrees to produce the paper, and is lecturing at Johns Hopkins on this subject.

Eva Hesse to Ellmann, Northwestern.  Typed and signed letter, 15 Feb 1965, 2p.  Thank you for your forthcoming paper.  In reference to Iseult Gonne, Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Herbert Read, Jeffares Committee.

Ellmann to Eva Hesse.  Carbon copy typed letter, 21 Feb 1965.  Ellmann's essay will be around 5000 words and will be ready in early May.  In reference Jeffares, Stuart, Herbert Read, Professor Robert Mayo.

Eva Hesse to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter, 21 Mar 1965.  Looks forward to his paper.  German copyright only allows nine lines of poetry at a time.  In reference to Herbert Read, Stuart couplet, Jeffares.

Eva Hesse to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter, 27 Jun 1965.  Wonders if the essay is going to come together; Eva Hesse is reserving space for it.  In reference to John Heydon, English Rosicrucians, Frank Kermode, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Egon Holthusen.  Back of letter has handwritten notes in Ellmann's hand.

Eva Hesse to Ellmann.  Typed and signed letter, 14 Jul 1965, 3p.  Eva Hesse praises Ellmann's essay "Ez and Old Billyum" and also wants to include it in a McGraw Hill Anglo-American symposium she is coordinating.  In reference Donald Davie, George Dekker, John Espey, Albert Cook, William Arrowsmith, Christine Brooke-Rose, Frank Kermode, Renee Wellek, Leslie Fieldler.  Pages 2 and 3 are proofing corrections.

Ellmann to Eva Hesse.  Carbon copy tyed letter, 21 Jul 1965.  Ellmann wants to be included in new symposium.  Only copyright problem would exist with Oxford Press, which wants to use "Ez and Old Billyum" in a collection of Ellmann's essays.

Ezra Pound to Ellmann.  Photocopy of a handwritten and signed letter, 26 Oct 1912, 5p.  Ezra Pound has proofed Yeats poems for a new magazine.  In reference to Tagore, H.D.  Most of letter concerns payment for Yeats.  Includes 3 pages of poetry with handwritten corrections in Ezra Pound's hand.

Ezra Pound to Ellmann.  Photocopy of a handwritten and signed letter, 2 Nov 1912.  Ezra Pound provides final version of a poem "[---] in the Groves of Philosophy."

Ezra Pound to Ellmann. Photocopy of a handwritten and signed letter, 2 Nov 1912.  Ezra Pound provides printing instructions for Yeats poem.

Ezra Pound to Ellmann.  Photocopy of a handwritten and signed letter, 4 Nov 1912.  Ezra Pound provides printing instructions for Yeats poem.

W.B. Yeats to Ellmann.  Photocopy of a handwritten and signed letter, Feb 1916, 6p.  "The Scholars" in Yeats's hand with Ezra Pound's handwritten corrections, and copies of other Yeats poetry.

"Antigone."  Photocopoied typescript of Yeats's poem with Ezra Pound's handwritten revisions.  3 copies.  Typescript of published poetry by Yeats.  6p.

Marylaine Bagby to Ellmann.  Handwritten and signed letter, undated, 6p.  Marylaine Bagby has taken notes from The New Age and The Little Review in reference to Yeats, music, Pound, Eliot, Tagore.  KENYON REVIEW, THE.  Sept 1966, Vol.  XXVIII, No.4.  Includes Ellmann's essay "Ez and Old Billyum" on p470-495."  Ez and Old Billyum." 

Photocopy of typed galley proof of above, with handwritten revisions, p 470-483, 485-494, p27.

"Possum's Conversion."  Typed fragments with handwritten revisions, p2-6.

Miscellaneous notes concerning Pound and Yeats project, 42p.

"Yeats Second Puberty."  Four folders including a galley.

  
     
Box 293 Lectures and papers relating to Yeats are loosely organized group of folders with Ellmann's drafts of articles and lectures, notes for coures, materials send to him,  etc.  
     
Box 294 Lectures and papers relating to Yeats, continued plus the following:  
  Yeats Festival  
 

Paul Carroll, Institute for Philosophical Research, Chicago.  Typed and signed letter, 9 Sep 1964.  In reference to Ellmann's book on Sebastian Melmoth, Yeats Festival at Northwestern, and Allen Tate.

Robin Skelton, University of Victoria, Britich Columbia.  Typed and signed letter, 13 Sep 1964.  Asks if Ellmann will speak at Centenary Festival.

Yeats Festival to Robin Skelton.  Carbon copy typed letter, 21 Sep 1964.  How much?

Yeats Festival to Sam.  Carbon copy typed letter, 11 Sep 1964.  Ellmann invites Sam to speak at Northwestern's Yeats Centenary.  In reference to Stephen Spender, Erich Heller.

Yeats Festival to Michael [Yeats].  Carbon copy typed letter, 26 Sep 1964.  Ellmann invites Michael to Northwestern's Yeats Centenary.  In reference to Stephen Spender, Erich Heller, Don Torchiana, and Rajan.

Yeats Festival to Frank.  Carbon copy typed letter, 26 Sep 1964.  Ellmann invites Frank to attend Northwestern's Yeats Centenary.  In reference to Donald Torchiana, Spender, and Rajan.  Program for the Northwestern "W.B. Yeats Festival: A Centenary Celebration.  "Program for the "William Butler Yeats Centennial Celebration" sponsored by the Cooperative Program in the Humanities, Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill.  Ellmann delivered a lecture.  Playbill for three Yeats Plays ("Calvary," "Resurrection," and "Purgatory") for the "William Butler Yeats Centennial Celebration" sponsored by the Cooperative Program in the Humanities, Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Brochure describing Yeats Association and membership procedures.

Yeats Society to Oliver Edwards, Rome.  Carbon copy typed letter, 11 Mar 1961.  In reference to Tom Henn and lecture series.

Oliver Edwards, Derry.  Handwritten and signed letter, 23 Dec 1960, 2p with envelope.  Ellmann will lecture at Yeats's International Summer School, Sligo.

Yeats Society to Oliver Edwards, Rome.  Typed and signed letter, 30 Dec 1960.  Ellmann can deliver one lecture early in session.

Yeats Society to Oliver Edwards, Derry.  Handwritten and signed letter, 5 Mar 1961.  One lecture would be fine. "Typescript of a description of the "Aims" of the Yeats Association.

Noel Kavanagh, Yeats Association Secretary to Northwestern.  Typed and signed letter, 8 Jun 1965.  Wants Ellmann as patron.

Noel Kavanagh.  Handwritten and signed note, 5 Oct 1966.  Ellmann is a patron.

Yeats Society from Noel Kavanagh.  Typed and signed letter, 14 Sep 1966.  Mix-up asks Ellmann to become Associate Member.  Brochure describing Yeats Association.

Frank J. Wynne, Yeats International Summer School to Northwestern.  Typed and signed letter, 23 Nov 1966.  Asks for a list of groups who might in use the new Yeats building in Sligo.

Shotaro Oshima, President, Yeats Society of Japan.  Carbon copy typed and signed letter, undated.  Notice of the founding of the Yeats Society of
Japan, Bulletin 1, and Annual Report 1

Yeats Society to Professor Oshima.  Carbon copy typed note, 24 March 1967.  Ellmann thanks him.

[Sale of Ellmann's Yeats Collection (books etc.) to Emory].

Herbert F.  Johnson, Director of Libraries, Atlanta, Georgia to Ellmann, Emory University.  Carbon copy typed letter, 18 Dec 1978.  Specifies negotiated price for Ellmann's Yeats collection and payment schedule.  Details about Ellmann's collection listed by major author and author as subject.

  
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