Francis Stuart papers from the Geoffrey Elborn collection, 1902-1990.

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Francis Stuart papers from the Geoffrey Elborn collection, 1902-1990.

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The collection contains materials related to Elborn's biography Francis Stuart: A Life (1990), including sixty-five pages of extensively annotated typescripts by Francis Stuart as well as several letters from Stuart and a signed original photograph. The collection also includes several typescript versions of chapters of the biography, correspondence about Stuart from friends and acquaintances, and 300 pages of transcriptions by the biographer from Stuart's personal diary covering the years 1942-1960.

1.30 linear ft.

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7008123

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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Elborn, Geoffrey, 1950-

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Stuart, Francis, 1902-2000

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Henry Francis Stuart was an Irish poet whose books were praised by William Butler Yeats and Poetry Magazine in Chicago. He lectured on modern English and Irish literature at Berlin University in the 1930's and in 1958 relocated to County Meath, Ireland. As a young man he served time for arms smuggling during the Irish civil war. The solitude and his conviction cementing his ambition to be an artist. The collector, Geoffrey Elborn, was born on February 27, 1950 in Scotland and had an extensive pr...