Papers of Padraic Colum
Overview
Unbound poems and letters: 6 poems written out as gifts to friends; 6 friendly/literary letters; 1 clipping (Irish politics); 1 letter from Grylls to Whelen. Typed and signed by Colum (and sometimes his wife), or written out by Colum. (Also a transcription in an unidentified hand.) Separate leaves, unbound. Now in separate folders. Places from which written: Dublin, London, New York: New York City; Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh.
Dates
- Creation: 1907 - 1963
Creator
- Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Biography of Padraic Colum
Padraic Colum (1881-1972) was born Patrick Collumb in Longford, Ireland, the eldest of 8 siblings. By the time he was 20 he had changed his name and joined both the Irish Republican Army and the Gaelic League. Colum was a member of both the National Theatre Society and the Abbey Theatre and was close friends with fellow Irish authors James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and Lady Gregory, among others.
Colum wrote poetry, plays, fiction, nonfiction (including biographies), children's literature, and collected folklore. He taught at Columbia University in the United States and died in Connecticut. He was buried in Ireland.
Extent
1 folder (14 items)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
MS P362
Existence and Location of Copies
This collection has been digitized as pdf copies; contact staff for assistance if wishing to review the pdf versions of these items.
Separated Materials
Colum, Padraic. Wild Earth. Dublin, Talbot Press, [1950]. Located at Spencer Research Library at O'Hegarty C512; contains a poem written on the flyleaves, beginning "The heavy wheels of many a cart..." given by Colum to Joseph and Mary Davenport O'Neill, 1951, as well as a manuscript correction to "A ballad maker."
- Title
- Guide to the Padraic Colum Collection
- Subtitle
- Papers of Padraic Colum
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by alh, May 1973. Finding aid encoded by mg, 2005. Finding aid revised by skt, 2010; eear, 2013; mwh, 2023.
- Date
- 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/3856655311
- Preferred citation
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Papers of Padraic Colum, Department of Special Collections, MS P362, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository