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September 27, 2017 by Gary Price

National Library of Ireland Acquires Major Yeats Treasures

September 27, 2017 by Gary Price

From the National Library of Ireland:

The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has today (27.09.17) announced details of a number of major new Yeats acquisitions. These acquisitions include the purchase from the Yeats family, via Sotheby’s, of more than 500 letters between WB Yeats and his wife George Yeats.
The letters between WB and George Yeats were due to be auctioned by Sotheby’s in London on 27th September. The National Library was offered the opportunity to acquire them for the national collection several months prior to the auction taking place. Agreement was reached that the letters should not be included in the sale, and they are now being purchased privately for €725,000, a purchase made possible by special allocation funding of €500,000 provided by Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys, with the balance covered from the NLI’s own resources.
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In addition to the advance purchase of these letters, the National Library today purchased a number of items at auction, for €72,675, supported by funding of approximately €50,000 from a family charitable trust. All of the items were by the poet’s artist father John Butler Yeats, including: a watercolour self- portrait; portraits of the artist’s daughters Susan Mary ‘Lily’ Yeats and Elizabeth Corbet ‘Lolly’ Yeats as adults and sketches of them as children; a pen and ink drawing of WB Yeats’ mother, Susan Pollexfen Yeats, and pencil sketches of George and WB Yeats.
The NLI has also announced the forthcoming donation by the Yeats family of both the remaining Yeats family archive and items currently on loan to the NLI for its Yeats exhibition. The donations will be made under Section 1003 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, the tax relief available in respect to donors of important national heritage items to the Irish national collections.
The donation includes more than 700 letters written by John Butler Yeats to his children, many illustrated with drawings and sketches, and more than 600 letters received by WB Yeats from a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, including many fellow writers such as TS Eliot, Ezra Pound, George Moore, Sean O’Casey, GK Chesterton, and Cecil Day Lewis. Items currently on display in the NLI’s WB Yeats exhibition, including pictures and other items which belonged to WB Yeats, will now be donated to become part of the NLI’s permanent collection.
These letters and objects are the latest treasures in a series of remarkable WB Yeats material acquired by the NLI from the Yeats family over almost 80 years, since George Yeats donated original manuscripts of the poems ‘Oisin’ and the ‘Wanderings of Usheen’ in 1939.
The donations are valued at an estimated €8.4m, while purchases total €1.54m.

Learn More: Additional Details About the Acquisition

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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