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Isabella Augusta Gregory, original autograph manuscript of 'The golden apple', with related correspondence with Lord Brotherton.

Archive Collection: BC MS 20c Gregory

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Isabella Augusta Gregory, original autograph manuscript of 'The golden apple', with related correspondence with Lord Brotherton.

Level: Collection

Classmark: BC MS 20c Gregory

Creator(s): Gregory, Lady()

Date(s): 1913-1928

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 notebooks and 2 letters with transcripts, all held in 1 leather case; manuscript and typescript.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8459

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Comprises 2 notebooks containing the original autograph manuscript of Lady Gregory's play 'The golden apple', dated 1913, together with correspondence between Lord Brotherton and Lady Gregory concerning Lord Brotherton's purchase of the manuscript from Lady Gregory in 1928 (with the assistance of Dorothy Una Ratcliffe) for a price of £30.


The custom-made medium-brown leather case is gilt-embossed on the spine with the following lettering: THE GOLDEN APPLE BY LADY GREGORY.- 1913. MS.

Biography or history

Isabella Augusta Gregory, Lady Gregory (1852-1932), the Irish playwright and poet. For a fuller account of her life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography.

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