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Letters both from and about Irish poets, playwrights, and editors written to Mary Louisa Sutliff. The correspondents discuss Irish literature and Irish writers and show a warm friendship for Miss Sutliff. Among the authors represented are Seumas O'Sullivan, Padraic Colum, and George W. Russell. Also, a box of printed materials about Irish authors.

A collection of letters from members of the Yeats family, including twelve letters from William Butler Yeats to Ellen Douglas Duncan, director of the Dublin Gallery of Modern Art, relating to public lectures and containing comments on the unrest in Ireland in 1918. There are also thirty letters from Elizabeth C. Yeats to Mary L. Sutliff dealing with publications of the Cuala Press. Family photographs with the annotations of Elizabeth Yeats, newspaper clippings, book reviews, and other printed ephemera are also contained in the collection. In addition, TALKING ABOUT YEATS, a 1967 television script by Micheál Mac Liammóir, and a related letter from Mac Liammóir; and a typescript catalog of Col. Russell K. Alspach's Yeats collection (not on microfilm).