Anne Yeats gift (1996) National Gallery of Ireland: Yeats Archive IE/NGI/Y1 Anne Yeats gift, 1996 (fonds) 1. Identity statement area ................................................................................................ 6 2. Context area ................................................................................................................ 6 3. Content and structure area ........................................................................................... 7 4. Conditions of access and use ........................................................................................ 8 5. Allied materials area .................................................................................................... 8 6. Description control area ............................................................................................... 8 1. Anne Yeats’s catalogues to the collection .......................................................................... 10 Jack Butler Yeats archives (sub-fonds) 1. Identity statement area .............................................................................................. 12 2. Context area .............................................................................................................. 12 3. Content and structure area ......................................................................................... 14 4. Allied materials area .................................................................................................. 15 1. Original art by Jack Butler Yeats .......................................................................................... 16 1.1 Jack Butler Yeats sketchbooks....................................................................................... 16 1.2 Loose sketches and other original works by Jack Butler Yeats ..................................... 17 1.3 Drawings for articles by Jack Butler Yeats ..................................................................... 17 1.4 Stencil art by Jack Butler Yeats ...................................................................................... 17 1.5 Handmade postcards by Jack Butler Yeats ................................................................... 17 1.6 Lives by Jack Butler Yeats .............................................................................................. 17 2. Jack Butler Yeats literary works ........................................................................................... 18 2.1 Children’s literature by Jack Butler Yeats...................................................................... 18 2.1.1 Criticism of Jack Butler Yeats’s miniature theatre plays ........................................ 21 2.2 Theatre plays by Jack Butler Yeats ................................................................................ 22 2.3 Novels by Jack Butler Yeats ........................................................................................... 28 2.4 Miscellaneous writings by Jack Butler Yeats ................................................................. 32 3. A broadside by Jack Butler Yeats ......................................................................................... 35 4. Jack Butler Yeats’s documentation of his career ................................................................. 35 4.1 Career and general notebooks ...................................................................................... 36 4.2 Press cutting books ....................................................................................................... 41 4.2.1. Posthumous press cuttings added by Anne Yeats ................................................ 44 4.3 Jack Butler Yeats’s scrapbook of early illustrations ...................................................... 45 4.4 Reproductions of Jack Butler Yeats artworks................................................................ 46 4.4.1 Photographs of Jack Butler Yeats works added by Anne Yeats ............................. 64 5. Jack Butler Yeats’s letters and other correspondence ........................................................ 68 5.1 Letters, poems, and a play received from John Masefield ........................................... 68 5.1.1 Letters received from John Masefield ................................................................... 68 5.1.2 Poems and a play received from John Masefield .................................................. 73 5.1.3 Storage box ............................................................................................................ 76 5.2 Letters and correspondence with various persons ....................................................... 76 2 5.2.1 Associated items .................................................................................................... 98 5.3 Letters relating to Yeats’s plays La la Noo and In Sand ................................................. 98 6. Postcard and Christmas card collections ............................................................................. 99 6.1. Postcards received by Jack Butler Yeats and Mary Cottenham Yeats ......................... 99 6.2 Postcards addressed to others, collected by Yeats ..................................................... 112 6.3 Unused postcards and associated items ..................................................................... 112 6.4 Jack Butler Yeats’s Christmas card collection ............................................................. 114 7. Photographic collection of Jack Butler Yeats .................................................................... 117 7.1 Studio photographs of Susan Yeats (1841-1900) ........................................................ 117 7.2 Studio and professional photographs of Jack Butler Yeats ......................................... 118 7.3 Amateur photographs. ................................................................................................ 124 7.4 Photographic reproductions of images of Yeats and his Fitzwilliam square home, by other artists ....................................................................................................................... 148 7.4.1 Associated items .................................................................................................. 150 7.5. Miscellaneous photographs and associated items .................................................... 150 7.5.1 Associated items .................................................................................................. 152 8. Jack Butler Yeats’s scrapbooks .......................................................................................... 152 9. Jack Butler Yeats’s model boats ........................................................................................ 153 10. Artefacts and awards ....................................................................................................... 154 10.1 Artefacts relating to Yeats’s painting ........................................................................ 154 10.2 Awards conferred on Jack Butler Yeats ..................................................................... 156 10.2.1 Associated items ................................................................................................ 157 10.3 Flag ............................................................................................................................ 158 10.4 Sketchbook filing cabinets ........................................................................................ 158 11. Legal papers relating to A broadsheet and sale of Devon home. ................................... 158 12. Jack Butler Yeats’s Irish Language lessons ...................................................................... 159 13. Bookplate collection of Jack Butler Yeats ....................................................................... 160 13.1 Bookplate album ....................................................................................................... 160 13.2 Yeats family bookplates ............................................................................................ 164 13.3 Assorted bookplates collected by Yeats ................................................................... 166 13.3.1. Associated item ................................................................................................ 172 14. The Aran islands by John Millington Synge ..................................................................... 172 15. Jack Butler Yeats’s collections of images ......................................................................... 176 15.1 Reproduction artworks and original drawings by other artists. ............................... 176 15.2 Letter-files containing images collected by Yeats ..................................................... 181 16. Jack Butler Yeats’s financial records ................................................................................ 182 17. Jack Butler Yeats exhibitions material ............................................................................. 182 17.1 Jack Butler Yeats exhibition catalogues .................................................................... 183 17.1.1 Posthumous exhibition catalogues .................................................................... 199 3 17.2 Varied material relating to Jack Butler Yeats exhibitions ......................................... 201 18. Catalogues of work by other artists ...............................................................................