Wilde, Mary Hitchcock, 1905-. W. R. and Mary Hitchcock Wilde collection, 1898-1922.
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W. R. and Mary Hitchcock Wilde collection, 1898-1922.
The collection consists of letters and other materials from the printer/publisher Elizabeth Corbet Yeats of the Dun Emer and Cuala Presses (Dublin, Ireland), the publisher Thomas Bird Mosher (Portland, Maine), and the artist and storyteller Pamela Colburn Smith. The Elizabeth Corbet Yeats/Dun Emer and Cuala Press material consists of twenty-nine letters and notes from Elizabeth Yeats to W. R. Wilde, written between 1903 and 1919, mainly, though not exclusively, concerning the books and broadsides he purchased from the Dun Emer and Cuala Presses, and one letter from AE (pseudonym for George William Russell) to Elizabeth Yeats, November 1910, which she then forwarded to Wilde. In addition, this part of the collection contains various ephemera of the Dun Emer Industries and Cuala Industries, which included the Dun Emer and Cuala Presses, including book lists, advertisements for individual titles, cards, receipts, postcards, and brochures. Also included are newspaper and magazine clippings concerning the Dun Emer Industries, Jack and William Butler Yeats, AE, and Lord Dunsany. The Thomas Bird Mosher/Mosher Press material consists of twenty-eight letters from Thomas Bird Mosher to W. R. Wilde, written between 1898 and 1917, and six letters from Thomas Bird Mosher to Mary Hitchcock Wilde, written between 1917 and 1922, as well as two letters (1926 and 1938) from Flora M. Lamb, who continued the work of the Mosher Press after Mosher's death in 1923, to Mary Hitchcock Wilde. In this part of the collection there is also a Thomas Bird Mosher bookplate, a number of obituaries and appreciations of Mosher, a receipt from Thomas B. Mosher, Publisher, and a book list from 1902. Finally, there are some notes made by W. R. Wilde about the Mosher books in his collection and an advertisement for out-of-print Mosher books from a New York bookseller. The Pamela Colburn Smith material consists of one letter from Smith to W. R. Wilde, written in 1904, two hand-colored prints by Smith, two printed stories, one by Smith and one by Ella Young, both of which were illustrated by Smith, and two articles about her.
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.33 cubic ft.
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