http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6f59n8gm No online items Guide to the James A. Healy Collection of Irish literature, 1870-1976 Department of Special Collections Green Library Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022 Email: [email protected] http://library.stanford.edu/spc/ © 1999 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved. Guide to the James A. Healy Special Collections M0273 1 Collection of Irish literature, 1870-1976 Guide to the James A. Healy Collection of Irish literature, 1870-1976 Collection number: M0273 Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, California Contact Information Department of Special Collections Green Library Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022 Email: [email protected] http://library.stanford.edu/spc/ Processed by: Special Collections staff Date Completed: ca. 1976 © 1999 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: James A. Healy Collection of Irish literature, Date (inclusive): 1870-1976 Collection number: Special Collections M0273 Creator: Healy, James A. (James Augustine), d.1975. Extent: 8 linear ft. Repository: Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives. Language: English. Access Restrictions Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Publication Rights While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. Provenance Gift of James A. Healy, 1975, in memory of his wife, Josephine Healy. Works written by James Brendan Connolly, copyright held by Miss Brenda E. Connolly. Preferred Citation: [Identification of item] James A. Healy Collection of Irish literature, M0273, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Scope and Content This collection of books, letters, and other manuscripts was amassed by James A. Healy from his early days as a bibliophile in the thirties until his death in 1975. Its greatest strengths are in the areas in which he had personal contacts: his friendship with Oliver St. John Gogarty; his extended correspondence with Elizabeth C. Yeats and George Yeats, from whom he obtained all the Dun Emer and Cuala Press books (a great number of which were inscribed by their authors or by W. B. Yeats); a very fine selection of Cuala Press greeting cards and prints; and his contacts with Ernest Boyd, Richard Campbell, and Irene Haugh, which brought him AE's letters to those recipients and some of his unpublished lectures. Guide to the James A. Healy Special Collections M0273 2 Collection of Irish literature, 1870-1976 The interest of the collection extends further, to figures who were primarily artists rather than writers, such as Paul Henry and W. B. Yeats' father, brother, and two sisters, and entrepreneurs and actors such as the Fay Brothers and Dudley Digges. There is a handful of interesting letters from James Joyce, John M. Synge, Maud Gonne, and George Moore. In addition, from the critic Ernest Boyd's estate Healy obtained letters from Irish writers prompted by Boyd's research for his book, The Irish Literary Renaissance (1916). Arrangement Note PART ONE The letters have been arranged alphabetically by writer; within each writer's section they are placed alphabetically by recipient. Any MSS or printed articles by, or clippings about, each individual immediately follow letters by him or her. The numerous insignificant letters from libraries, publishers, etc. have been arranged alphabetically in folders labelled A, B, C, and so forth, but are not further itemized. Letters from unknown individuals to significant figures such as AE are, however, itemized separately, as are a few letters from unknown individuals to Healy which contain interesting references. At the end of the manuscript section of the collection, Box 16 contains the Dun Emer and Cuala Press printed materials (other than books and oversize prints); a folder of Elizabeth C. Yeats' letters and enclosed announcements, the gift of Mr. J. Richard Blanchard; and a copy of the Cuala Press keepsake printed for the opening of the Stanford exhibition in 1976. Photographs are listed here, but are maintained in a separate departmental Photograph File. Only the most important material from the substantial Vertical File of miscellaneous clippings has been catalogued. A Cross-Reference Listing, of significant figures written to or about, is also provided. PART TWO This covers all the Dun Emer and Cuala Press books and broadsides, with their inscriptions transcribed at length, and the books of particular interest from other presses more briefly. They are combined in one listing, alphabetized by author. Magazines and auction catalogues are also itemized briefly. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CORRESPONDENTS EABErnest A. Boyd JCJoseph Campbell RCRichard Campbell ACAustin Clarke ECEileen Colum PCPadraic Colum DLord Dunsany OGOliver St. John Gogarty LGLady Gregory IHIrene Haugh JAHJames A. Healy PHPaul Henry JJJames Joyce EFKEugene F. Kinkead WKMW. K. Magee MMMichael Monahan GMGeorge Moore SO'SSeumas O'Sullivan LRLennox Robinson ARAnna Russell AEGeorge Russell [N.B. alphabetized as R] GBSGeorge Bernard Shaw JSJames Stephens JMSJohn M. Synge Guide to the James A. Healy Special Collections M0273 3 Collection of Irish literature, 1870-1976 KTKatherine Tynan ECYElizabeth C. Yeats GYGeorge Yeats Jack BYJack B. Yeats JBYJohn B. Yeats LYLily Yeats MCYMary Cottenham Yeats WBYWilliam B. Yeats PLACES BBoston/Brookline DDublin DmDundrum, Co. Dublin GGreystones, Co. Wicklow LLondon NYCNew York City RRathfarnham, Dublin SFSan Francisco OTHER AIHSAmerican-Irish Historical Society CPCuala Press DEDun Emer Press TECHNICAL TERMS ALautograph letter ALSautograph letter, signed TLStyped letter, signed TLctyped letter, carbon of APCSautograph postcard, signed ANSautograph note, signed ADSautograph document, lecture, poem, etc., signed TDtyped document, etc. PDprinted document, etc. AtelSautograph telegram, signed Tmimeotyped mimeograph trans.transcript, i.e. typed copy of an original item (often indicates an important item Pcphotocopy/xerox (only used here when there is no original of the item in the collection) ()number of additional photocopies, xeroxes, or carbons of original item w/awith annotations w/cov.with cover enc.enclosing/enclosures sindicates plural, at end of rubric EDITORIAL PROCEDURES Undated letters are placed at the end of any given folder, except when there is strong circumstantial evidence for their being placed earlier. Dates in brackets, [], are transcribed from the postmark or an annotation by another reader such as JAH, or deduced from internal evidence. The number of pages, not sheets, is given after the dash in each entry. Thus a single sheet, written on both sides, with two photocopies of it, would be entered as ALS - 2 (2). Dates are given in the following form: month/day/year (i.e. English-style dating has been changed to American style). Guide to the James A. Healy Special Collections M0273 4 Collection of Irish literature, 1870-1976 Photocopies of an original that is in the collection are placed at the end of their folder, separated by Perma-life paper. CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPT Physical Description: BOXES 1-16 Box 1, Folder 1 A Scope and Content Note Not listed individually Box 1, Folder 2 ABERDEEN Aberdeen, [Lord] (D) to ECY, 11-27-13. Physical Description: ALS - 4 w/ AL postscript - 4 Aberdeen, Isobel (D) to ECY, 3-3-14. Physical Description: ALS - 4 Box 1, Folder 3 ALDINGTON, RICHARD Aldington, Richard (Padworth, Berks.) to Editor, New York World, 11-7-24. Physical Description: TLS - 1 and trans. Box 1, Folder 4 ALLGOOD, SARA Allgood, Sara (NYC) to JAH, 4-7-40. Physical Description: TLS - 1 Allgood, Sara (Hollywood) to Miss Russell, 2-18-49. Physical Description: ALS - 1 Clipping, 1-31-39 Box 1, Folder 5 ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM Allingham, W. (NP) to [J.T. Fields], ND. Physical Description: ANS - 1 Allingham, W. (Chelsea, London) to My dear Knowles, 4-16-1878. Physical Description: ALS - 3 Allingham, W. (NP), article, Shelley's `Lines to an Indian Air' , 1-29-1883. Physical Description: ADS - 2 Box 1, Folder 6 AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY DINNER, 1938 Seating list, ND. Physical Description: PD - 1 w/a 42 letters of acceptance [?],speech about Judge O'Brien. Physical Description: TDc - 7 Box 1, Folder 7 ARMSTRONG, H.F.; ARNOLD, SIDNEY; AYRES, H.M. Armstrong, H.F. (NYC) to AE, 1-26-28. Physical Description: TLS - 2 Arnold, Sidney (S. Chingford) to JAH, 1-31-56. Physical Description: TLS - 2 Guide to the James A. Healy Special Collections M0273 5 Collection of Irish literature, 1870-1976 Container List Arnold, Sidney (S. Chingford) to JAH, 12-3-57. Physical Description: TLS - 2 Arnold, Sidney (Dun Laoghaire) to JAH, 4-21-58. Physical Description: TLS - 1 Ayres, H. M. (NYC) to [AE], 2-3-28. Physical Description: TLS - 1 Box 1, Folder 8 B Scope and Content Note Not listed individually Box 1, Folder 9 BARLOW, JANE Barlow, Jane (D) to Mr. Everson, 9-2-? Physical Description: ALS - 2 Barlow, Jane (D) to Mr. Rideing, 12-31-01. Physical Description: ALS - 1 Barlow, Jane