Butler, LaFayette Lentz, 1887-1975
Person
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
D. H. Lawrence Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 6
Scope and Contents
The D.H. Lawrence Collection consists four series: correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts, and periodicals. The letters are grouped by correspondent and arranged chronologically. Almost all of Lawrence’s letters are fully dated and occasional transcriptions accompany them. The manuscripts donated by Dr. Butler are in chronological order by the date of publication. Two additional manuscripts, “The Crown” and “Democracy,” both donated by the Friends of the Library, are included in the Butler...
Dates:
1919-1979
Edward Burne-Jones Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 82
Scope and Contents
The Burne-Jones Collection consists of two series: Correspondence and Drawings. Correspondence includes letters written by Edward Burne-Jones and by Georgianna Burne-Jones between 1878 and 1907. Ten of the eighteen letters are undated. The collection also contains six original humorous pen and ink sketches by Edward Burne-Jones.
Dates:
1873-1907
George Moore Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 54
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two series: manuscripts and correspondence, dated from 1884 to 1931. The manuscripts include corrected proofs of two manuscripts; the author’s holographic revisions appear on the correct proofs of Memoirs of My Dead Life and Ulick and Soracha.The corrected proofs are followed by the letters ordered alphabetically by correspondent, thereafter chronologically. Fifteen letters were written by...
Dates:
1884-1931
H.G. Wells Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 12
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one series entitled Correspondence. The letters in this collection are mainly from Wells to Reginald Turner, and generally concern Wells’ travel plans. Some of the letters refer to visits to Turner in Italy with Wells’ mistress, Rebecca West. Some refer to Wells’ travel plans with a later mistress, Odette Keun. Others refer to family plans with his sons Gip and Frank. A few letters discuss literary matters, such as articles or stories to be published. One letter...
Dates:
1911-1937
Norman Douglas Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 50
Scope and Contents
The letters, manuscripts, and business papers that make up the collection offer valuable insights into Norman Douglas as an author and a friend. They chronicle the last years of his writing career, discussing his business dealings, research, travels and thoughts on other authors. His sense of humor, love of life, and attention to detail are apparent in many of the letters contained in the collection. However, several sections of his letters are bitter, as he complains about the pains of...
Dates:
1921-1970
Rossetti Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS 11
Scope and Contents
The Rossetti collection consists of three series: Dante Gabriel Rossetti letters, William Michael Rossetti letters, and miscellaneous materials. The entire collection contains approximately 80 items dating from 1865 to 1900, including letters written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti between 1865 and 1868. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by William Rossetti between 1897 and 1899 to Francis W. Burgess, a London bookseller, and Burgess’s widow, dating from 1899 to 1900. This...
Dates:
1865-1900
William Butler Yeats Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 43
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...
Dates:
1894-1936
William Morris Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 4
Scope and Content Note
The William Morris Papers are comprised of 21 letters and postcards written by William Morris to Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson with two exceptions: a letter to William Holman Hunt (1881) and an undated transcription of Morris's poem, May Grown a-Cold, which was first published in an 1890 volume of The Atlantic Monthly. The letters, written during Morris's most politically active years, chronicle his engagements with varying...
Dates:
1881-1893
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- Personal correspondence 7
- Literature and life. British writers 4
- Manuscripts 4
- British poets. 2
- Poets, Irish 2
- Pre-Raphaelites (Brotherhood) 2
- Account books 1
- Checks 1
- Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922. 1
- Drawings 1
- England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. 1
- Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910. 1
- Morris, William, 1834-1896 1
- Morris, William, 1834-1896. Collected letters of William Morris. 1
- Notebooks 1
- Novelists, Irish 1
- Painting, British 1
- Postcards 1
- Printed Ephemera 1
- Socialism -- England -- History -- 19th century. 1