Padraic Colum papers

Collection

Identifier: 2002-026b

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains manuscript and corrected typescripts of poems and plays, as well as writings towards an uncompleted memoir, all primarily completed from 1969-71, as well as some outgoing correspondence, photos, and cassette tapes of Colum dictating memoirs, corrections to literary work, and correspondence.

The bulk of the collection contains unsorted incoming correspondence received after his initial illness, with some outgoing carbons mixed in as well.

Dates

Creation: 1968-1972

Creator

Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

University records - Copyright held by Wesleyan University; all other copyright is retained by the creator - In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted

Biographical / Historical

Irish poet and playwright Padraic Colum (1881-1972), was a co-founder of the Abbey Theater, who lived in New York from 1914 to 1970. He was a cofounder and longstanding participant at the Suffield/Wesleyan Writer's Conference. He spent the last two years of his life in an assisted living facility in Enfield, Connecticut, and was assisted in his personal affairs and literary work by Jeanne Krochalis. Further Colum materials can be found in Krochalis's papers in the Wesleyan Archives and in the Wesleyan Writers Conference Records.