Found 4 collections related to Letters (correspondence)

John Quinn (1870-1924) was a corporation lawyer in New York City who amassed an important private collection of paintings, drawings and sculpture as well as books and manuscripts of contemporary authors. The collection consists of seven condolence letters on the death of John Quinn from prominent friends; six are addressed to Quinn's sister Mrs. William V. Anderson (Julia Quinn Anderson); one letter is addressed to lawyer Thomas J. Curtin, John Quinn's assistant. Items comprise: an autograph letter signed "A. Gregory," from Irish patron of the arts Augusta, Lady Gregory, on Coole Park letterhead, to "Dear Sister of John Quinn," dated [1924] July 29 (2 pages), with typescript copy; a typed letter signed from lawyer Richard Campbell on 14 Wall Street letterhead, dated 1924 August 26 (2 pages); an autograph letter signed (1 page) from New York Times editor John H. Finley, with a separate autograph manuscript poem "In Memory of John Quinn" signed "John Quill" with ink drawing of a quill (1 page), both dated 1924 July 29, with typescript copy of the poem; an autograph letter signed from lawyer and author Richard Walden Hale on Schooner Head, Bar Harbor, Maine letterhead, dated 1924 August 26 (1 page), with envelope; an autograph letter signed from artist Walt Kahn, on Ogunquit, Maine letterhead, dated 1924 July 30 (1 page); an autograph letter signed from poet and editor Michael Monahan on New Canaan, Connecticut letterhead to "My dear Mr. Curtin," dated 1924 July 31 (1 page); and a typed letter signed from artist John Sloan as president of The Society of Independent Artists, dated 1924 December 5 (1 page). Lady Gregory, apologizing for having forgotten Anderson's name, writes of her shock and grief after receiving the news by cable, and by a telegram from W. B. Yeats less

John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) was an Irish portrait painter and the father of the poet William Butler Yeats and the painter Jack Butler Yeats. John Quinn (1870-1924) was a corporation lawyer in New York City, and a noted private collector and patron of the arts. Yeats visited New York City in December 1907, remaining there, with Quinn's assistance, until his death in 1922. The item, written and drawn in pen and ink, is a brief autograph letter signed J.B. Yeats to "My dear Quinn," describing the large sketch drawn above as "my reminiscence of last night's dinner - you are not very like, but the other two are not bad." From left to right, the dinner circle consists of Yeats, Quinn and a woman, showing the back of a man in the foreground, with a man's profile to the side crossed out. An additional small self-portrait is drawn below his signature and the date. What appear to be four lines of verse on the other side are also crossed out less

James Joyce was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Richard William Wallace (1872-1927) was an American commercial artist and advertising executive who resided in Paris for a number of years. The collection (3 items in 1 slipcase) comprises two autograph letters signed by James Joyce, 1922 April 24 and 1926 December 22, and one autograph letter signed by his son George (Giorgio) Joyce, 1922 June 17, all written to James Joyce's friend, Richard Wallace. James Joyce's letter of 1922 April 24 (one page) encloses a letter for Wallace's perusal (not present) and mentions an invitation to lunch and other matters. The letter bears a pencilled note signed "W." Joyce's letter of 1926 December 22 (one page) extends holiday greetings and best wishes for Wallace's health. At Ezra Pound's request he asks Wallace to obtain information from Dr. [Joseph] Collins about a New York collector. Both letters are written in ink and addressed "Dear Wallace." George Joyce's letter (two pages on one leaf, in ink), is written at Paris and addressed "Dear Mr. Wallace." Writing on his father's behalf, he asks Wallace to convey Joyce's thanks to Collins for his article in the New York Times, and supplies several corrections regarding his father's life and the novel Ulysses less

Bernard Shaw, born George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish writer of novels, plays, poems, short stories, and literary criticism. The item is a manuscript copy of George Bernard Shaw's letter to the editor of The Times of London, dated February 2, 1909, published on February 5, 1909. Shaw responds to a letter published in The Times on January 29, 1909 by English writer H.W. Mallock. Mallock had criticized remarks on income inequality made by Keir Hardie, M.P. at a Labour Party conference in Portsmouth, England on January 27th, as reported by the press. Shaw defended Hardie and questioned Mallock's knowledge of socialism and political economy in general, initiating an exchange of letters in the newspapers. The manuscript, in an unknown hand, is accompanied by an undated typed transcript of the item (3 pages), and a small half-tone photographic portrait of Shaw less