James A. Healy collection of Irish literature

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James A. Healy collection of Irish literature

1870-1976

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4082952

Letters, manuscripts, clippings, photographs, broadsides, books, and prints. Includes material resulting from personal contact between James A. Healy and Oliver St. John Gogarty, Elizabeth C. Yeats, George Yeats, Ernest Boyd, Richard Campbell, and Irene Haugh. A selection of Cuala Press greeting cards and prints is included. Others represented in the collection are Paul Henry; W. B. Yeats's father, brother, and two sisters; the Fay Brothers, Dudley Digges, James Joyce, John M. Synge, Maud Gonne, and George Moore. From the estate of the critic, Ernest Boyd, Healy obtained letters from English writers prompted by research Boyd did for his book, THE IRISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE (1916).

9 linear feet

eng, Latn

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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