Padraic Colum papers
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.
Extent
3 Linear Feet (3 paige boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The papers of Irish poet and playwright Padraic Colum from the later years of his life.
Arrangement
The collection is in the original order it was received.
Subject
- Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 (Person)
- Title
- Padraic Colum papers, 1968-1972
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Erica Ciallela
- Date
- April 2, 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives Repository