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Creator
Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Gregory
Physical description
8,178 items
Language
Materials in English, French and Gaelic
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, financial and legal documents, notebooks from 1881 to 1929, diaries from 1881 to 1913, journals from [ca. 1916] to 1932, correspondence dating from 1873 to [1965], portraits, and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

Lady Isabella Augusta (Persse) Gregory was an Irish playwright, director, producer, poet, folklorist, translator and historian, co-founder of the Irish National Theater Society at the Abbey Theater, and patron of the Irish Literary Renaissance.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, financial and legal documents, notebooks from 1881 to 1929, diaries from 1881 to 1913, journals from [ca. 1916] to 1932, correspondence, portraits, and pictorial works. The portraits include original sketches by Jack B. Yeats. The manuscripts and typescripts include holographs related to the Abbey Theater, drafts and outlines of plays, notes toward works, scenarios, poems, essays, manuscripts related to Sir Hugh Lane, lecture notes, and other materials. The manuscripts and typescripts also include material related to Lady Gregory from Douglas Hyde, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and others, as well as translations by Lady Gregory of various works. There are a number of financial and legal documents relating to the Abbey Theater, royalty statements from Samuel French and John Murray and agreements between the author and various agencies. The correspondence includes letters, from 1882-1932, from the author to Sara Allgood, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1882-1922), Padraic Colum, William Robert Gregory, Paul Harvey ([1885]-[1892]), Thomas J. Kiernan (1924-1932), Sir Hugh Percy Lane (1901[?]-[1914?]), Sean O'Casey (1924-1931), Una Pope-Hennessey, John Quinn ([1902]-1924), Lennox Robinson, Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats ([1898?]-1932), and to others. It also includes letters relating to the author, from 1873 to [1965], between various correspondents including William Butler Yeats, Sir William Henry Gregory, Bernard Shaw, and others. There are letters to Lady Gregory, dating from 1881 through 1932, from Lascelles Abercrombie, Sara Allgood, Olivia Charlotte Ardilaun, George Atkinson, William F. Bailey, Augustine Birrell, Lady Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Thomas Bodkin, Samuel L. Brown, Dorothy Carleton, Baron Edward Henry Carson, Baron Castletown (Bernard Edward Barnaby Fitzpatrick), Molly Childers, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Sidney Colvin, William Thomas Cosgrave, Curtis Brown, Ltd., Jerome Fahey, William F. Figgis, Samuel French, Ltd., Frank Gallagher, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Edmund Wilson Gosse, Guy Gough, Hugh Gough, Margaret (Parry) Gregory, Sir Philip Hanson, Timothy Michael Healy, Annie Elizabeth Fredricka Horniman, Constant Huntington, Douglas Hyde, Henry James, Thomas Joseph Kiernan, Alexander William Kinglake, Hugh Percy Lane, Dugald Sutherland MacColl, Alec Martin, Edward Martyn, John Masefield, James McNeill, Charles Simpson Millington, Thomas C. Murray, Thomas Power O'Connor, Standish O'Grady, Arthur Wellesley Peel, J. H. Perrin, Edward Persse, Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, G. P. Putnam & Sons, John J. Reynolds, Lennox Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Bernard Shaw, George Shiels, Robert H. Woods, Kazumi Yano, Jack B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats, and others, many of these relating to the Lane pictures.

The Lady Gregory collection of papers are arranged in four series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources including W. T. H. Howe.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources including W. T. H. Howe.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

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Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

Alternative form available

Some items available on microfilm under classmark *ZZ-11879, *ZZ-20791, *ZZ-29273, *ZZ-30757 (4 reels), and *ZZ-37786. Contact the Photographic Services Department for details. Photographic Services, Room 68. The New York Public Library. Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street. New York, NY 10018. Telephone: 212-930-0808 Fax: 212-221-3423 Email: photoservices@nypl.org