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Sender: Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet
Recipient: Mathews, Elkin
Letters: 8
Date(s): 11 Dec 1903 - 24 Jun 1918
Location: BC MS 20c Yeats, in volume lettered "Autograph Letters from Elizabeth Corbet Yeats to Elkin Mathews ... 1903-1918"
Note: Miss Elizabeth C. Yeats and Miss Lily Yeats, the sisters of W.B. and J.B. Yeats, were the founders of the Dun Emer (later known as the Cuala) Industries, at Dundrum, Co. Dublin. Here Miss E.C. Yeats established a private press, where many of the books of William Butler Yeats, and other leaders of the Irish Celtic Renaissance Movement, were published. Workshops also were set up where hand embroidery and weaving to old Celtic designs was done.
Sender: Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet
Recipient: Mathews, Elkin
Letters: 1
Date(s): 7 Oct 1903
Location: BC Gen YEATS, bound with copy of "The Green Hamlet and Other Poems" by W.B. Yeats (1910)
Sender: Yeats, Jack B.
Recipient: Mathews, Elkin
Letters: 11
Date(s): 14 Dec 1891 - 31 May 1921; 1 n.d.
Location: BC MS 20c Yeats, in volume lettered "J.B. Yeats & his Wife to Elkin Mathews, 1897-1921"
Note: Jack Butler Yeats, the distinguished artist and writer, worked in London for some time as an illustrator, but later confined his work almost entirely to painting Irish landscape and life. During the years 1902-1903 he edited a Magazine entitled 'The Broadside'. The letters to Elkin Mathews relate mainly to the publication of his works.
Sender: Yeats, J.B.
Recipient: Mathews, Elkin
Letters: 1
Date(s): 17 May 1906
Location: BC MS 20c Yeats, in volume lettered "Autograph Letters from Elizabeth Corbett Yeats to Elkin Mathews ... from 1903-1918"
Sender: Yeats, Mary Cottenham
Recipient: Mathews, Elkin
Letters: 2
Date(s): [c. 11 Sep 1897] - 16 Dec 1903
Location: BC MS 20c Yeats, in volume lettered "J.B. Yeats & his Wife to Elkin Mathews, 1897-1921"
Category: 19c2 Female
Sender: Yeats, William Butler
Recipient: Mathews, Elkin
Letters: 27
Date(s): 30 Dec 1894 - 23 Jan 1914
Location: BC MS 20c Yeats, in volume lettered "Autograph Letters from William Butler Yeats to Elkin Mathews, 1894-1914"
Note: In these letters, Yeats mentions several of his contemporaries including Lionel Johnson, Selwyn Image and Lady Gregory. Of his own book "The Wind among the Reeds" he writes: "George Moore, York Powell and Edmund Gosse all think this is my best book".