YEATS ATTACK!
So, so sorry for the dorky all-caps, there, but this, man… this is big news (again, news to me, though it was announced a month ago):
The New York Public Library Acquires Important–Largely Unpublished–W. B. Yeats Manuscripts
New York, NY, July 15, 2005 — The New York Public Library has acquired a manuscript album of highly significant and largely unpublished papers by the Irish poet and dramatist W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), generally regarded as one of the greatest poets of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was announced by Paul LeClerc, President of The New York Public Library and David Ferriero, Director and CEO of The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library. The album was acquired on July 12 at an auction at Sotheby’s in London.
“The New York Public Library is extremely pleased that it has become the home of this extraordinary group of papers and that scholars of Yeats, as well as historians of the Abbey Theatre and the Irish Literary Renaissance, can come from around the world to study them in the context of the Library’s rich supporting holdings,” said President LeClerc.
The green goatskin album, with gilt tooled spine, is signed by the celebrated Arts and Crafts binder Katharine Adams and was the property of Sydney Cockerell, the highly influential design binder, Kelmscott Press Secretary, and Fitzwilliam Museum Director. “The album will become part of The New York Public Library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature,” said David Ferriero. “Among the Berg’s many literary treasures is one of the world’s largest collections of Yeats manuscripts and correspondence.”
Much thanks to Leland for bringing it to my attention.
I think I might pass out.
