ID10324
CollectionO'Sullivan/Solomons Collection
ReferenceTCDMss4630-4649
Description

Correspondence of Beatrice Moss Campbell.
Includes:
7 letters of Beatrice Campbell, (numbers 3292, 3401, 3402, 3403, 3405, 3406)
3 letters to Seamus O'Sullivan and 4 to Estella Solomons, undated apart from no 3292 to Estella Solomons, 1 April 1965.
2 greeting cards to the O'Sullivans from Beatrice Campbell, (number 506), 1920 and (number 3844), no date with a notice of a private viewing of pictures by Lady Glenavy (number 1235a), 1935.

Letters from Teresa Deevy (numbers 1500, 2034, 3500, 3501) all to Seamus O'Sullivan:
Suggesting reviewers for the Dublin Magazine, 18 October 1937
Letter, 17 December [post mark 1943], in which she tells him of her hesitation to revise her play
2 letters also concerning her plays, undated.

The collection also includes (number 1300) 5 sheets of galley proofs for the `Dublin Magazine' of Teresa Deevy's one-act play entitled `The King of Spain's Daughter', 1935.

The O'Sullivan Solomons Collection includes papers and letters of Mary Duncan (Máire Ní Dhonnchadha) (1885-1964), painter. Includes:
15 letters from Mary Duncan (numbers 452, 1212a, 1688, 1689, 2370, 2458, 2460, 2468, 2497, 2609, 3200, 3215, 3516, 3517, 3518), correspondents include:
Estella F Solomons, commenting on health, the weather, ESF's studio, her own family:
14 January 1918
6 March 1939
19 April 1948 (card)
29 December 1958
14 August 1959
no date.

Seamus O'Sullivan:
6 March 1939,
26 February 1950
23 December 1952 in which she comments on a volume of Irish prose received [Hoagland `A thousand years of Irish poetry], with a number undated.

The collection also includes (number 265) an advertising postcard for an exhibition of paintings etc., by E F Solomons, Mary Duncan and Albert Power with ticket for same, 1914, with another advertising poster for an exhibition by the same three at Mill's Hall, Merrion Row, Dublin, no date (number 3520).

Includes (number 487a) an advertisment for an exhibition of paintings and etchings by E F Solomons and Mary Duncan at Mill's Hall, Merrion Row, Dublin.

A printed catalogue of paintings and etchings by E F Solomons, Mary Duncan and Albert Power, no date (number 4567).

Includes list of etchings and paintings by E F Solomons and Mary Duncan, The Studio, 26 Great Brunswick Street, no date, printed, (number 4566).

The collection also includes invitation card for an exhibition by Mary Duncan, Louise Jacobs and E F Solomon at Arlington Gallery, London with catalogue for same, no date, (numbers 3519, 3521).

Includes invitation to an exhibition of paintings, etchings and sculptures by E. [F] Solomons, Mary D and Albert Power, printed, no date (numbers 4573, 4577).

The O'Sullivan Solomons Collection holds three letters from Maud Gonne Mac Bride:
Number 3772, to Seamus O'Sullivan, relating to a meeting of `the optimists', no date

Number 4695, part of a letter from Maud Gonne to Ella Young, she is attracted, she tells Young, by Estella Solomons, no date.

Number 3771, letter to an unidentified recipient [signature torn from letter].

The O'Sullivan Solomons Collection contains:
c6 letters from Rosa Jacobs (numbers 103a, 262, 523a, 523b-c, 523e, 524 b), correspondents include: Seamus O'Sullivan, inviting him for Christmas Eve, 19 December 1913

Letters to Estella F Solomons:
25 May 1906
3-4 June [1922] telling her how she can write a letter now that the sabbath is over, giving family news
6 June 1922
8 June 1922, giving family news, news of Fred Green's marriage at the Liberal Synagogue and sending a plaice for the Sabbath
10 July 1922.

Includes 1 letter to Rosa Jacobs Solomons from Julia W Cohen, London, [1] June 1908, offering a tribute to R J Solomons' work for fellow-Jews and sending copies of her books for schools.

The collection also includes, among miscellania relating to R Jacobs Solomons, a certificate in recognition of services 1914-1919 from the British Red Cross Society, 1921 (number 509e).

Verse by R J Solomons (numbers 4587b, 4587, 348a, 4588).

The O'Sullivan Solomons Collection includes:
15 letters from the novelist and short story writer, Mary Lavin, (numbers 1705. 1739, 1781, 1809, 1811, 1827, 2206a, 2761, 2770, 2776, 2857, 2908, 2914, 3180), the correspondent is mostly Seamus O'Sullivan, for example:
2 June 1939, on her reviews for the `Dublin Magazine', 18 June 1940
9 October 1940 in which she sends a short story for Seamus O'Sullivan to look at
3 October 1939
16 January 1940

Letter to the Editor of the `Dublin Magazine', 16 June 1940.

The O'Sullivan Solomons Collection: includes 2 letters from Mary Isabel Leslie (1899-1978), novelist and poet, pseudonym Temple Lane, (number 3018, 3020), both to Seamus O'Sullivan:
18 July 1956
25 July 1956.

The collection also includes a Christmas card from her (number 3746), no date.

Verse by Mary Isabel Leslie (number 2631and number 3018).

The O'Sullivan Solomons Collection contains one letter (number 3820) from Countess de Markiewicz to Seamus O'Sullivan, relating to an invitation to a party to celebrate `Miss Walker's return', no date.

The O'Sullivan Solomons Collection includes:
6 letters (numbers 2851, 2884, 2888, 2930, 3001, 3014) of Roisin Nora O'Mara, who later founded `Musaem no n-Oilean, Innis Meain, Arann to Seamus O'Sullivan:
25 November 1954, offering poems for Dublin Magazine
14 March 1955
31 March 1955, relating to titles for her poems, her plays on Radio Éireann and other literary topics,
21September 1955
1 June 1956
10 July 1956.

Verse of Dora Siegerson Shorter, no date (number 516).

Includes letters from Helen Wadell, numbers:
809
809a
814
815 (1928)
1213 (1934)
1843 (1941)
4646 (no date).

Includes a letter to Martha Starkey, née Sullivan, married William Starkey, M D, number 3972, no date.

Includes letters to Rebecca R Starkey, `Raby':
number 22 (1899)
number 3979 (no date).

Includes letter from Beth Starkey, [?] wife of James S Starkey (cousin of Seamus O'Sullivan)], number 2775 (1954), with christmas cards from her:
numbers 4598, 4600, no date.

Includes letters from Annie `Nan' Starkey, sister of Seamus O'Sullivan, numbers:
35 (1902)
461a (1918)
523f, 524c, 525, 526, 527, 527b (1922)
924, 4594, 4595, 4596, 4597 (no date)
with letters to her, numbers
23 (1899)
27 (1900)
128 (1906)
140 (1907)
3982 -3993 (no date).
Also includes number 455 (1918) letters of administration of the estate of Miss Mary E Sullivan for Annie Starkey, her niece,
Numbers 535, 536 (1922), catalogue of pictures by the late Miss Annie Starkey (printed).

Includes letters from Grace Gifford numbers:
149 (1907)
[155] (1908)
174 (1909)
3562 (no date, after Easter 1916)
3563, 3564, 3565, [3567] (no date).
Also includes sketches and lyrics by Grace Gifford, for example:
Number 3566 (no date)
Number 174 (1909).

Includes letters from Blathnaid Salkeld, pseudnoymn Nell Byrne, numbers:
407, 448 (1917)
473 (1918)
889a (1929)
1093, 1094 (1932)
2016a (1943)
2550, 2562 (1951)
2724 (1953)
2915 (1955)
3050 (1956)
3122 (1957)
4480, 4487 (no date).
Includes also verse by Blathnaid Salkeld
Number 1288a (1935)
4483, 4484, 4485, 4479 (no date)
2700 (1953)
3201 (1958)
2290 (1956).

Includes a letter from Kate O'Brien, number 3071, 1957.

Includes letters from Constantia Maxwell, historian, numbers:
1351 (1936)
3113 (1957).

Includes letters from Susan Mitchell, numbers:
31a (1902)
83 (1905)
133, 134 (1906)
3833-3843 (no date).
Includes also:
Number 3844, greeting card with verse, (no date)
Number 3831, collection of typed poems, (no date)
Verses, numbers:
134 (1906)
3829, 3830 `To Inghinidhe na hEireann' (no date)
133 (1906)

Number 4056, Seamus O'Sullivan, essay, `Susan Mitchell: another memory', (no date).

AccessBy prior appointment.
Century20th
Keywords
Repository NameTrinity College Dublin, Manuscripts and Archives Department
AddressOld Library Dublin 2
EircodeD02 PN40
Telephone(01) 896-1189
Telephone 2(01) 896-3384
Email Addressmscripts@tcd.ie
Repository Web Addresshttps://www.tcd.ie/library/research-collections/manuscripts.php
CommentThe information listed from this repository has been extracted from lists available in the archives. The lists were compiled by staff of Trinity College, Dublin Library and we are grateful for their assistance. Due to time constraints not all items in this repository were examined individually. We are grateful to Felicity O'Mahony for providing information on items and collections added since 1999.
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