Yeats, William Butler, (1865-1939), poet and playwright

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Surname:	Yeats
Forenames:	William Butler
Gender:	Male
Date:	1865-1939
Biography:	ODNB link for Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939), poet and playwright
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P142663 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P31482 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for William Butler Yeats

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	corresp and papers incl literary and theatrical MSS	National Library of Ireland		See Annual Reports, 1957-58, 1961-62, 1985
2	misc additional material inc carbon copies of poems	National Library of Ireland	Acc 6914	See Annual Return 2004
3	1872-1970: papers (328 items)	University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library	Yeats, W.B
4	1875-1965: collected MSS of and rel to him	Emory University Library: Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Book Library	Manuscript Collection No. 600
5	1891-1939: corresp and literary MSS	University of Reading: Special Collections	pp10, 14, 18, 26	NRA 14186 Reading Univ MSS
6	letters and literary MSS	Harvard University: Houghton Library		NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS
7	1889-1954: papers (50 items)	Indiana University: Lilly Library		See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
8	1937: revised proofs of 'The Herne's Egg'	National Library of Ireland	Acc 6047	See Annual Return 2004
9	MS of The Isle of Statues	The King's School, Canterbury	WALPOLE	NRA 15260
10	corresp with Albert Bender	Mills College Library		See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
11	corresp with Thomas Bodkin	Trinity College Dublin	MSS 6910-7079	NRA 24102
12	1896-1930: corresp with Robert Bridges	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Facs d 121; Don d 135; Dep Bridges 105, 120	NRA 25413
13	1903-35: letters to GK Chesterton	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 73210 B f.138; 73232 B f.115; 73241 ff.126-136
14	1908-34: letters, mainly to Mabel Dickenson	University of California Library, Berkeley		See NUC MS 75-393
15	1934-40: corresp with Arthur Duff	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 55003
16	1918: letters (12) to Ellen Douglas Duncan	Columbia University Libraries: Rare Book and Manuscript Library		See NUC MS 65-1834
17	1890-1922: corresp with EJ Ellis	University of Reading: Special Collections	MS 293	NRA 14186 Reading Univ MSS
18	corresp of him and his family with WM Gibbon	Queen's University Archives		See Guide, 1986
19	c1890-1938: corresp with Maud Gonne	Emory University Library: Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Book Library	Manuscript Collection No. 930
20	1903-17: letters (25) to Edmund Gosse	Leeds University Library, Special Collections	Library Publications no 3	NRA 9840 Gosse
21	1915-27: letters (copies) to Lady Gregory	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 1839	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
22	1907-35: letters (15) to Sir Herbert Grierson	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.9331
23	1926-38: letters (12) to Cecil Harmsworth	National Library of Ireland	Acc 6846	See Annual Return 2008
24	1924-35: letters to Lady Londonderry	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D3099/3/16	NRA 19803 Stewart
25	1913-39: corresp with Macmillans	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 55003
26	1936-38: letters (53) to Ethel Mannin	Sligo Central Library		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
27	c1887-1903: letters (40+) to John O'Leary	National Library of Ireland	MS 5925	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
28	c1899-1935: letters (11) to Sarah Purser	National Library of Ireland	MS 10201	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
29	1891-1906: letters to Ernest Rhys	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Eg MS 3248
30	1913-35: letters (97) to Lennox Robinson	Southern Illinois University Library	Collection 91
31	letters to Sir William Rothenstein	Harvard University: Houghton Library		See NUC MS 82-665
32	1889-1932: letters (46) George W Russell	National Library of Ireland	MS 15600	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
33	1901-32: corresp with George Bernard Shaw	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 50553
34	1919-39: letters (21) to WF Stead	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library		NRA 18661 Osborn coll
35	1931-38: corresp with Shri Purohit Swami	University of Delaware Library		See NUC MS 85-377
36	1902-14: corresp with JM Synge	Trinity College Dublin	MSS 3554-6225 passim	NRA 20079 Synge
37	1887-1929: letters (109), mainly to Katharine Tynan; literary MSS	Huntington Library	mssHM 33619-33690	See Guide to literary MSS 1979
38	letters (c500) to George Yeats	National Library of Ireland
39	letters (c600) received from friends and acquaintances, incl TS Eliot, Ezra Pound, George Moore, Sean O’Casey, GK Chesterton, and Cecil Day Lewis	National Library of Ireland
40	1909-65: Society of Authors file rel to	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 56851
41	1889-1937: letters (16)	Harvard University: Houghton Library		See NUC MS 84-1935
42	literary papers	State University of New York at Stony Brook		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
43	literary papers	New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives Division		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
44	1888-1950: literary papers	Princeton University Library	C1191	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
45	literary papers	University of Chicago Library: Special Collections Research Center		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
46	ams 'Countess Cathleen', draft poems, diary 1880-2 (copies)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 1875

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet, (1868-1940), publisher	Sister		Family
2	Yeats, Susan Mary, (1866-1949), craftswoman and publisher	Sister		Family
3	Yeats, George, (1892-1968), wife of WB Yeats	wife/husband	1917-1939	Family