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Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: December 8, 1881-1972 - 1972

Biography

Padraic Colum (1881-1972), born Patrick Collumb, was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Irish Literary Revival.

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Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

"At the Gateways of the Day", 1924

 Part of Collection — Box 100: [Barcode: 39002093714302], Folder: GROUP 121, V-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Typescript with manuscript revisions and corrections in an unidentified hand.

Published as volume one of Tales and Legends of Hawaii (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1924).

Dates: 1924
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > C > COLUM, PADRAIC, 1881-1972

Josephine Boardman Crane papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 292
Abstract:

The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, event files, and personal papers that document Josephine Boardman Crane's role as a socialite, patron, and philanthropist. These materials record Crane's daily activities, including a broad range of cultural events and numerous social contacts.

Dates: 1912-1972, bulk 1926-1963
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Josephine Boardman Crane papers

James Joseph Daly papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 649
Abstract: Collection contains correspondence, writings, and personal papers documenting the life and professional activity of poet and playwright James Joseph Daly. Correspondence in the collection consists chiefly of incoming correspondence from writers, journal editors, publishers, and others, but also includes drafts and carbons of outgoing letters and writings and enclosures. Correspondents include Elizabeth Ames at Yaddo, Kenneth Burke, John Cheever, Padraic Colum, Malcolm Cowley at The New...
Dates: 1916-1949
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Joseph Daly papers

Eugène and Maria Jolas papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 108
Abstract: The Eugène and Maria Jolas Papers consist of manuscripts, letters, photographs, and printed materials relating to the work and lives of the two authors, to their publication, Transition magazine, and to their friend, James Joyce. The first subgroup, the papers of Eugène Jolas, contains his correspondence with such persons as Kay Boyle, Raoul Hausmann, Raymond Queneau, and Jean Wahl, writings (articles, columns, drafts of an autobiography, and hundreds of poems in Enlgish, German,...
Dates: 1879-1986, 1879-1986
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Eugène and Maria Jolas papers

Letter : New York, to Agnes DeLima, 1941 Mar 18

 Part of Collection — Box 7: [Barcode: 39002137170164], Folder: GROUP 121, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

TNS stating that he will write for the cover of her Love and Death.

Dates: 1941 Mar 18
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > C > COLUM, PADRAIC, 1881-1972

Letter : to the Editors of the Yale Literary Magazine, [1938 Feb?]

 Part of Collection — Box 5: [Barcode: 39002137224813], Folder: GROUP 86, F-3
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

TLS in which Colum criticizes the contents and the arrangement of the dummy which the editors had submitted to him.

Dates: [1938 Feb?]
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > C > COLUM, PADRAIC, 1881-1972

Adele Gutman Nathan Theatrical Collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 58
Abstract: The Adele Gutman Nathan Theatrical Collection Addition consists of letters, manuscripts, printed material, and photographs documenting the life and career of Nathan's life and achievement in the theater, as an author, as a journalist, and as a pageant producer. Included in Series I are drafts of a children's book about Major John Andre, drafts of a novel, "What is a Man Profited," printed copies f newspaper columns by Nathan, motion picture scenarios programs for the Cellar Players...
Dates: 1834-1989
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Adele Gutman Nathan Theatrical Collection

Notes on the writing of Baloon, [1929?]

 Part of Collection — Box 5: [Barcode: 39002137224813], Folder: Group 86, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Holograph manuscript notes.

Removed from Baloon by Padraic Colum (New York: Macmillan Company, 1929).

Dates: [1929?]
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > C > COLUM, PADRAIC, 1881-1972

"The Bright Islands", 1925

 Part of Collection — Box 101: [Barcode: 39002093714310], Folder: GROUP 121, V-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Typescript with manuscript revisions and corrections in an unidentified hand, and proofs of six illustrations by Juliette May Fraser.

Published as volume two of Tales and Legends of Hawaii (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925).

Dates: 1925
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > C > COLUM, PADRAIC, 1881-1972

"The Princess & the Jester : A Play in Two Acts", n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box 5: [Barcode: 39002137224813], Folder: GROUP 86, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Autograph manuscript.

Dates: n.d.
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > C > COLUM, PADRAIC, 1881-1972