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Box 2

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Contains 7 Results:

"To an Isle in the Water", [undated]

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Autograph poem written by Yeats.

Dates: [undated]

Untitled fragment, [undated]

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Nine-line fragment written and signed by Yeats.

Dates: [undated]

Quotation from Yeats's The Countess Kathleen, 1923 May 28

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Two-line quotation copied and signed by Yeats on a card. Originally tipped into a copy of Yeats's Autobiographies (Special Collections call number: SPEC PR 5906 .A53).

Dates: 1923 May 28

Notes for a lecture on the power of symbols, [circa 1895]

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Seven pages of autograph notes (in an unidentified hand) for a lecture delivered to The Order of the Golden Dawn, the mystical brotherhood in which Yeats was active.

Dates: [circa 1895]

Photographs of William Butler Yeats, 1903

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These four photographs of Yeats were taken in 1903, upon his arrival in New York for his first American lecture tour.

Dates: 1903

Hughes, William. Philips' Handy Classical Atlas. London: George Philips and Son, [undated]

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William Butler Yeats's personal copy, acquired as a schoolboy, between the ages of 11 and 15. On the flyleaf, Yeats has inscribed in Greek the phrase: "The poet is the fountainhead of wisdom." He has also written his name and varying addresses on the flyleaf and title page. This item has been removed to be cataloged for the printed collection of Special Collections: (Special Collections call number: SPEC G 1033 .H 84x 1880z).