O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966

Exchange between Ellmann and O'Connor.

Gold writes to Ellmann, in part: "...Did I tell you that I consider myself a tertiary influence on an influence of an influence in your book?...."

Includes "Beneath the Mask of James Joyce", "James Joyce at University College", and an article about Frank O'Connor.

Ellmann's article appearing in The New York Review.

Copies of original manuscripts and transcriptions of Yeats poems including: "The Ballad of Earl Paul", "Bates", "In Church", "Lords and Commons", "Maid Quiet", "Poem of Lancelot Switchback", the "Rose" poems, and "Sailing to Byzantium", The Summer Evening", "The Two Tress", and "Variations on an Air". Also includes fragments of poem transcriptions and Ellmann's notes.

Exchange regarding J.F. Taylor's speech; the existence of Joyce and/or Gogarty limericks; related topics.

Exchange arranging a meeting between the two men to discuss Joyce.

Exchange regarding the question of Joyce's having stood for auditor of the Literary and Historical Society at National University.

Includes "Place Him in His Setting", a possible draft obituary; another draft which begins, "Frank O'Connor was a man of great affection...."; an isssue of the Ireland Bulletin; press cuttings of obituaries and excised articles about O'Connor.