Leabharlann Náisiunta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland Collection List No. 30 Papers of Rosamond Jacob (MSS 33,107-33,146; 32,582) (Accession No. 4726) Literary and political papers of Rosamond Jacob, political activist and novelist, and papers relating to the families of Jacob, Harvey and Webb, including letters from Charles Stewart Parnell to Alfred Webb,1831-1960. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Literary Papers.............................................................................................................. 3 I.i. The Rebel’s Wife/Matilda Tone/The Rise of the United Irishmen............................. 3 I.i.1. Drafts and proofs ................................................................................................ 3 I.i.2. Correspondence .................................................................................................. 4 I.i.3. Reviews .............................................................................................................. 4 I.i.4. Illustrations......................................................................................................... 4 I.ii. Novels....................................................................................................................... 4 I.ii.1. The Enchanted Wood ........................................................................................ 4 I.ii.2. The Knave of Clubs........................................................................................... 4 I.ii.3. The Third Person Singular ................................................................................ 4 I.ii.4. Following Light................................................................................................. 5 I.ii.5. The Troubled House.......................................................................................... 5 I.ii.6. Callaghan........................................................................................................... 5 I.iii. Plays, poems and prose ........................................................................................... 5 II. Diaries, 1897-1960........................................................................................................ 6 III. Political Activity ......................................................................................................... 6 III.i. Pamphlets, petitions and postcards......................................................................... 6 III.ii. Friends of the Soviet Union (FOSU)..................................................................... 7 III.iii. Frank Ryan ........................................................................................................... 8 III.iii.1. Correspondence ............................................................................................. 8 III.iii.2. Photographs ................................................................................................... 8 III.iii.3. Miscellaneous ................................................................................................ 8 IV. Family Papers ............................................................................................................. 8 IV.i. Jacobs, Harveys and Webbs ................................................................................... 8 IV.i.1. Correspondence ............................................................................................... 8 IV.i.2. Diaries.............................................................................................................. 9 IV.i.3. Photographs and drawings............................................................................... 9 IV.i.4. Miscellaneous ................................................................................................ 10 IV.ii. Letters (1878-1909) to Edmund Harvey ............................................................. 11 IV.iii. Letters to Alfred Webb....................................................................................... 14 IV.iii.1. From Charles Stewart Parnell...................................................................... 14 IV.iii.2. From Anna Parnell ...................................................................................... 16 IV.iv. Other correspondence......................................................................................... 17 IV.v. Parnell: Photographs and press cuttings .............................................................. 17 Appendix A...................................................................................................................... 18 2 I. Literary Papers I.i. The Rebel’s Wife/Matilda Tone/The Rise of the United Irishmen I.i.1. Drafts and proofs MS 33,107 Drafts and copy draft, with galley and final printed proofs of The Rebel’s /1-10 Wife. 10 folders /11-12 Typed drafts (2 copies) of Matilda Tone. (With various loose pages on one of which is a poem entitled ‘The Wake’.) 2 folders /13 Copybook containing research notes on the United Irishmen. [Marked ‘The United Irishmen – 2’]. Also, related loose pages and press cuttings. 1 folder c. 1926-1928 3 I.i.2. Correspondence MS 33,108 Letters from various correspondents regarding The Rebel’s Wife. (Those from friends contain references to other matters.) 12 items 17 January 1958-6 December 1959 I.i.3. Reviews MS 33,109 Newspaper reveiws of The Rebel’s Wife, including reference to its selection as Book of the Year by the Women Writers Club. (With cutting of Jacob’s letter to The Irish Press regarding plans for a statue of Tone in Dublin.) 1958-1959 I.i.4. Illustrations MS 33,110 Photographs collected during research on Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen. Includes photograph of print of ‘Grace Georgina Tone from a watercolour painted by her grandmother Matilda Witherington Tone in the drawing room o her house in Georgetown near Washington D.C., U.S.A.’ With covering letter from Penelope Hyde (10 September 1951). Also, photograph of ‘The bust of Theobald Wolfe Tone…as it stood in the house of his only grandchild-Grace Georgina Tone Maxwell-the daughter of William Theobald Wolfe Tone in Brooklyn, New York, 1898’. I.ii. Novels I.ii.1. The Enchanted Wood MS 33,111 Typescript of novel. /1-3 3 folders I.ii.2. The Knave of Clubs MS 33,112 Notebooks containing draft of novel. (Includes in first notebook /1-3 photograph of ‘Ben’ dated March 1915.) 3 folders 20 September 1915-23 August 1916 I.ii.3. The Third Person Singular MS 33,113 Copy [first] typed draft of novel (pps. 1-158) and typed later draft (pps. /1-2 1-183). (With various loose pages). 2 folders 4 I.ii.4. Following Light MS 33,114 Notebooks containing draft of novel. (With page conmtaining critical /1-3 comments of various family members.) 3 folders I.ii.5. The Troubled House MS 33,115 Author’s advance copy of novel with typed page giving excerpts from advance notices; also, correspondence from Browne & Nolan Limited regarding change of title (which was to have been ‘A House Divided’). 2 folders 1938 I.ii.6. Callaghan MS 33,115 Newspaper review (Irish Times, 14 January 1921); also, transcript of Daniel Corkery’s review (Banba July 1921). 2 items I.iii. Plays, poems and prose MS 33,116 Drafts of three-act plays:- French Help, The Friend of Brian (page one of /1-3 Act Three excepted) and The Plain Truth. 3 folders MS 33,117 Notebooks containing various stories: Theo and Nix, Chronological Outlines of the History of Ralta, The Fellowship of the Four Jewels and Beechgrove. (Notes at the end of The Fellowship of the Four Jewels refer to executions in 1922/23 and to Rosamond Jacob’s own arrest) 7 items Ms 33,118 Essays and stories by Rosamund Jacob, including her translation of Patrick Pearse’s story ‘Barbara’. 6 items MS 33,119 Notebooks contaning poems and prose by various authors (In English, Irish and French). 2 items MS 33,120 Poems (some by Rosamond Jacob). Includes series on the life of Theobald Wolfe Tone. 24 pp MS 33,121 Miscellaneous notes and jottings. 5 5 notebooks MS 33,122 Copies of the Urbs Intacta magazine [conpiled by Rosamond Jacob and /1-2 her brother T.F.H. (Freddy) Jacob] for the years 1903, 1904, 1911 and 1913. 4 items II. Diaries, 1897-1960 MS 32,582 Notebooks containing the diaries of Rosamond Jacob, from 1897 to /1-170 1960. See Appendix A MS 33,123 Miscellaneous fragments found with diaries; also, discarded envelopes. III. Political Activity III.i. Pamphlets, petitions and postcards MS 33,124 Material relating to Aylmer Rose, conscientious objector, and to his prison experiences. [Transcripts of printed material.] 4 items c. 1917 MS 33,125 Copy list of conditions sought by Republical prisoners; also petition for release of Rosamond Jacob (arrested on 20 December 1922). Signed by various family members and by AE Russell, Susan Mitchell, Richard Cherry and others. 2 items December 1922 MS 33,126 Letters to Rosamond Jacob, including invitation from AE Russell to become a member of the Dublin Committee of One Hundred of The Threefold Movement. 3 items 1926-1930 MS 33,127 Miscellaneous pamphlets, including some from the Cumann Leigheacht /1-3 an Phobail series. c. 30 items (in 3 folders) c. 1916-c. 1932 MS 33,128 Miscallaneous items including facsimile of Sean MacDiarmada’s last /1 letter, typescript copy of Pearse’s 1913 address at Wolfe Tone’s grave, two copies of a Cumann na mBan leaflet ‘The Story of Terence McSwiney’, memorial cards of Dick Barrett and Liam Mellows and a 6 group photograph of the [Mellows] family (including Cathal Brugha). 8 items MS 33,128 Newspapers