Scope and Contents The George Bernard Shaw Collection reflects the many sides of Shaw’s versatile personality. In his letters he emerges as a merciless critic, a careful businessman, a fond uncle, an artist struggling to work among various distractions, a political organizer, a kind benefactor, and finally as an aged man wearied by the demanding public role he played well into his final years. The collection documents the structure of his work and the daily routines he followed. Shaw’s correspondence to others...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of four series dating from 1894 to 1936 and includes correspondence by William Butler Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, Elizabeth Yeats, and Lily Yeats; catalogs of Cuala Industries and Dun Emer Industries; announcements and receipts of Cuala Press; draft prospectus and photograph of Dun Emer Press; as well as clippings of published articles by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory, announcements, works on paper, a program, a photograph, and a postcard. The...