W. R. and Mary Hitchcock Wilde collection, 1898-1922.

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W. R. and Mary Hitchcock Wilde collection, 1898-1922.

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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.

.33 cubic ft.

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Cornell University Library

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Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet, 1868-1940

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Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (known by her family as “Lolly”) was born on March 11, 1868, in London, the third surviving child of John Butler Yeats and Susan Mary Pollexfen. In the 1880s she began writing and contributed to The Pleiades, an amateur magazine she created with friends. She completed training as a kindergarten teacher in 1892 and taught art for several years afterwards. She also published four popular painting manuals during this time. In 1900, Yeats and her family moved from London to Du...

Wilde, Mary Hitchcock, 1905-

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Botanist. Mary Hitchcock Wilde, 1905-1984, graduated from the Vail-Dean School in Elizabeth, NJ, where she was enrolled in a college preparatory course. During that time many of her writings were published in the school's publication, The Budget. She studied at the New Jersey College for Women (now Douglas College) and received a Ph.D. in botany from Cornell University in 1942. From the description of Mary Hitchcock Wilde papers, 1801-1984. (Cornell Universit...

Yeats, Jack B. (Jack Butler), 1871-1957

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Young, Ella, 1867-1956

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Young was born in 1867 in Fenagh, County Antrim, Ireland; came to America as a lecturer in 1925; held the Phelan Memorial Lectureship on Celtic Mythology and Literature at UC Berkeley; wrote poetry and books for children influenced by Irish folklore; publications include: Poems (1906), The rose of heaven (1920), To the little princess (1930), Marzilian and other poems (1930), and The unicorn with silver shoes (1932); she died in 1956. From the description of Papers, 1900-1956. (Unive...

Cuala Press

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Thomas B. Mosher, Publisher.

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Davies, Mary Carolyn

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Dun Emer Industries, Ltd.

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Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, 1878-1957

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Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928

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Marshall, Edward, 1870-1933

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Smith, Pamela Colburn.

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Mosher Press (1912-1923)

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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

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Hutchison, Percy A.

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Russell, William George, 1867-1935.

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Mosher, Thomas Bird, 1852-1923

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Epithet: publisher, of Portland, Maine British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000544.0x000099 Publisher and printer. From the description of Thomas Bird Mosher collection, 1893-1929. (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 28127344 Mosher was a publisher of inexpensive but well-printed books devoted to belles lettres in Portland, Maine. Many of these were reprints of English authors and c...

Tagore, Rabîndranâth, 1861-1941

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Dounce, Harry Esty.

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Lamb, Flora M.

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Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876

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Irish physician, father of Oscar Wilde. From the description of Note, undated : [Dublin], to Mrs. Simpkinson. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35663724 ...