Jack Butler Yeats’s notebook of notations and memoranda
Description
Includes manuscript notations relating to prices for illustrations and original Broadsides for 1923-1925, a four-page list of various Dublin signs including a pig at Talbot street and a huntsman on horse at Dame street. Includes memoranda such as ‘write story about work or something of nature of interview to give to London or the papers’. Features two pages of colour diagrams based on the theories of Felix Hackett (1882-1970), dated ‘October 1930’. Includes details of Galway accommodations from 1930 and a family tree for Leda and the Swan resulting in a ‘Pollexfen no doubt’ descendant. Includes notations regarding opening times of chemist shops and details of clothing ordered. Also includes notes from 1940 regarding reprints of the 1902 Broadsheets. Covers decorated by Yeats with various scraps of multi-coloured paper and gold paint. ‘Now’ inscribed on cover.
Creator
Yeats, Jack Butler
Related topics
| Title | Jack Butler Yeats’s notebook of notations and memoranda |
|---|---|
| Creator | Yeats, Jack Butler |
| Date | [c.1925-?1947] |
| Type | Component |
| Ref | IE NGI/YA/Y1/JY/4/1/7 |
| Level | Item |
| Condition | Good |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 28pp |
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