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Wednesday, August 16, 1995
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
It keeps more than memories alive.
Historical collections are part of KU's hidden treasures
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A precious gem is hidden in one of KU$^s$ libraries.
Jay Thornton / KANSAM
But the William Butler Yeats Collection and P.S. O'Hegarty Collection at Spencer Research Library are much more than a bunch of old books.
A little white-haired Irishman named Patrick S. O'Hegarty hid this treasure 40 years ago. With it, he left a window into his life and into the life of an entire country.
"It's one of the hidden treasures on campus," said graduate student Jim Healey.
This treasure draws people from all over the country, though few KU students even know it exists. And many wrongly believe that only librarians or scholars could find it interesting.
Yeats, who died in 1939, was a famous Irish poet and a strong supporter of nationalist movement in Ireland. O'Hegarty was one of Yeats' friends and admirers and also was an avid collector of unusually rare books and numerous other items.
The Years collection is one of the best in the world, said Richard W. Clement, associate librarian of special collections. Patricia Donlan, the National Librarian of Ireland, has examined the collection and discovered that the Yeats collection has things that even the libraries of Ireland don't have.
This is a picture of the unsuccessful rebellion of 1.798 in Ireland from the P.S.O.Hegarty Collection at Spencer Research library. Irish patriot Lord Edward Fitzgerald killed a guard while resisting arrest and was wounded himself. He died as a result of his wound three weeks later in prison.
Some of the books were in Yeats' personal library and are filled with his annotations.
"Ah, my dad. He was always scribblin' in his books," Clement said, repeating Michael Yeats' statement about his father. The younger Yeats has made several trips to KU with his wife, the daughter of O'Hegarty.
Yeats inscribed another annotation in a book he wrote and was giving to a friend. His nearly illegible inscription said that his publisher paid him for writing the book by providing him with numerous copies of it. His publisher believed sharing any profits would be robbery.
"Keep the book out of my sight,"
Portraits of Yeats and his three siblings are sketched in pencil inside some of the books. John Butler Yeats, Yeats' father — and one of the best portrait artists of his time —
often would pull books off the shelf and sketch his four children, Clement said.
The collection also contains all but two of Yeats' first-edition works and numerous letters.
from O'Hegarty in 1955, who died a month after it arrived in Lawrence.
O'Hegarty's books then arrived in 1959. This additional collection included everything Irish, from
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