John Butler Yeats letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0099-F0293

Staff Only

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.

Dates

Creation: 1920 and undated

Creator

Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials entirely in English.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

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John Butler Yeats (1839-1932)

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).