ID4132
CollectionMary Lavin Papers
Collection DescriptionMary Lavin was born to Irish parents in East Walpole, Massachusetts, in 1912. She returned to Ireland with her family when she was ten years old. She attended a Loreto Convent School before studying English and French in UCD. After receiving an MA in English in 1936, Lavin wrote her first short story, entitled Miss Holland. Her first collection of short stories - Tales from Bective Bridge - was published in 1942, winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her short stories featured in many publications, including the New Yorker and The Atlantic. She was elected a Saoi by members of Aosdána in 1992.
Collection Web Addresshttps://libguides.ucd.ie/ld.php?content_id=32391763
Alternate Collection Web Addresshttps://www.ucd.ie/specialcollections/archives/lavin/
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Description

Photocopy of proof of 'Bunch of Grapes', no date.

Manuscript copy of 'Outside the Gallery', 18 January 1975.

Manuscript copy of 'Ignis Fatuus', 10 February 1974.

Typescript copy of 'Perpetua' and carbon copy, no date.

Inventory of the Mary Lavin Collection, Boston University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, no date.

'A Glimpse of Katey' ('Georgie Review', 1966) two copies and a list of stories, no date.

Manuscript copy of 'A Single Lady', November 1984.

Typescript copy of 'A Mug of Water', April 1985.

Typescript copy of 'A Room to Let', June 1985.

Typescript copy of 'Trastavere', no date.

Typescript copy of 'Trastavere', no date.

Typescript copy of 'Miss Holland', 9 January 1978.

Typescript copy of 'A Bevy of Aunts', no date.

Typescript copy of 'Check-Out Girl', 30 August 1974.

Typescript copy of 'Check-Out Girl', 20 January 1974.

Typescript copy of 'In a Caf‚', no date.

Manuscript copy of 'Check-Out Girl', 2 October 1974.

Typescript copy of 'Check-Out Girl', no date.

Manuscript copy of 'Check-Out Girl', 1977.

Typescript and manuscript copy of 'Check-Out Girl', 29 October 1976.

Typescript and manuscript copy of 'Check-Out Girl', 9 November 1974.

Typescript and manuscript copy of 'Check-Out Girl', 12 May 1977.

German newspaper cuttings relating to Mary Lavin, 1970.

Typescript and manuscript copy of 'Bunch of Grape', mixture of two versions, no date.

Two copies of 'Bunch of Grape', from 'Ireland of the Welcomes', no date.

Transcript of an Interview with Mary Lavin by Gullanson, recorded 3 November 1967, at University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Transcript of 'Mary Lavin A Study of her Short Stories' by Sister Perpetua Kelly. Presented for the degree of Master of Arts in the School of English, University of Leeds, May 1971.

Transcript of an Interview with Mary Lavin by Gullanson, recorded 3 November 1967, at University of Connecticut, Storrs, and covering letter from Thomas A Gullason to Mary Lavin, 24 September 1969.

Collection of newspaper cuttings in French, German and Irish relating to Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript and manuscript copy of 'Check-Out Girl', 20 January 1974.

Two typescript copy of 'Check-Out Girl', no date.

Reviews of 'The Second Best Children in the World', 1972.

Selection of reviews mainly of 'A Likely Story', no date.

Transcript of 'Mary Lavin at Merrimack College - a discussion of writing by the author and a group of students at Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, USA, on 10 November 1967'.

Transcript and manuscript of 'Mary Lavin at Merrimack College - a discussion of writing by the author and a group of students at Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, USA, on 10 November 1967'.

Transcript of an interview with Mary Lavin by L Robert ad Sylvia Stevens with letter, 1982.

Typescript of 'Perpetua' with manuscript annotations, 12 September 1975.

Typescript of 'Perpetua' with manuscript annotations, 20 September 1975.

Manuscript of 'The Tenants', 8 March 1970.

Manuscript of 'The Tenants', no date.

Transcript of 'Mary Lavin at Merrimack College - a discussion of writing by the author and a group of students at Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, USA, on 10 November 1967.

Transcript and manuscript of 'Mary Lavin at Merrimack College - a discussion of writing by the author and a group of students at Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, USA, on 10 November 1967.

Transcript of 'An Old Boot' written and read by Mary Lavin, 9 December 1968.

Manuscript of 'Mary Lavin at Merrimack College - a discussion of writing by the author and a group of students at Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, USA, on 10 November 1967'.

Transcript of 'Mary Lavin at Merrimack College - a discussion of writing by the author and a group of students at Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, USA, on 10 November 1967'.

Transcript and manuscript of 'Mary Lavin at Merrimack College - a discussion of writing by the author and a group of students at Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, USA, on 10 November 1967'.

Transcript of 'Mary Lavin at Merrimack College - a discussion of writing by the author and a group of students at Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, USA, on 10 November 1967'.

Manuscripts of 'Mary Lavin at Merrimack College - a discussion of writing by the author and a group of students at Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, USA, on 10 November 1967'.

Typescript of 'Ignis Fatius', 27 December 1973.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Ignis Fatius', 25 November 1973.

Two leaves of manuscript of 'Magenta', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Magenta', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Magenta', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Magenta', no date.

Manuscript leaves of 'Magenta', June 1972.

Manuscript leaves of 'Magenta', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Magenta', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Magenta', no date.

Typescript of 'Magenta', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Magenta', no date.

Spiral bound notebook containing manuscript of 'Magenta', 5 January 1976.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Magenta', no date.

Manuscript copy of 'Magenta', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Magenta', no date.

Manuscript copy of 'Magenta', no date.

Typescript of 'The Statue in the Grounds', no date.

Jotter containing manuscript copy of 'The Lost Field', jotter, 5 November 1987, only first page used and several loose leaves, 10 March 1982.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'A Dream', 6 February 1974.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Bereavement', 5 December 1974.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Bereavement', 9 October 1974.

Typescript of 'The Bereavement', 5 December 1974.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Bereavement', 5 December 1974.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Dream', ['The Bereavement'], 31 December 1973.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Trixie', ['The Dream', 'The Bereavement'], 7 December 1973.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Dream', ['The Bereavement'], 31 December 1973.

Typescript of miscellaneous five pages, no date.

Newspaper cuttings, no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Check-Out Girl', 12 May 1977.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Check-Out Girl', 24 June 1977.

Manuscript copy of 'Check-Out Girl', July 1974.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Check-Out Girl', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Check-Out Girl', 9 November 1974.

Jotter containing manuscript copy of 'The Wake', no date.

Typescript of 'Perpetua' with manuscript annotations, no date.

Typescript of 'Perpetua' with manuscript annotations, 20 February 1975.

Photocopy of typescript of 'Perpetua' with manuscript annotations, 29 January 1976.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Wake', 17 January 1969.

Manuscript leaves of 'The Wake', February 1969.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Wake', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Wake', no date.

Typescript of 'The Wake', no date.

Manuscript leaves of 'The Wake', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Wake', 7 October 1969.

'The Wake', loose typescript leaves, jotter containing manuscript, December 1973 and 9 loose leaves, 19 July 1977.

Manuscript leaves of 'The Wake', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Wake', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Wake', incomplete, 16 March 1968.

Jotter containing manuscript of 'The Wake', no date.

Jotter containing manuscript of 'The Wake', no date.

Newspaper cuttings relating to Mary Lavin, 1960s-1980s.

Manuscript copy of 'Lemonade', 8 August 1985.

Manuscript copy of 'Lemonade', 9 January 1984.

Typescript of a paper by Mary Wood entitled 'Problems in Translating: Was I True to Mary Lavin', no date.

Jotter of manuscript notes of 'No Traveller Returns', 25 January 1962.

Carbon copies of 'A house for the people of God' by Michael MacDonald Scott, no date.

Typescript of 'Mr Shaw's Queries on 'Perpetua', no date.

Typescript of 'The Bog Light' or 'Perpetua' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Manuscript notebook of 'Perpetua', no date.

Carbon copies of 'Scott on Churches', no date.

Photocopy of 'Family Likeness' by Mary Lavin and a newspaper clipping on the book, 1984.

Typescript of a 'Bevy of Aunts', no date

Typescript of 'Perpetua' with manuscript annotations, no date.

Photocopy of proof pages of 'Perpetua' with manuscript annotations, no date.

Photocopy of proof pages of 'Perpetua' with manuscript annotations, from the 'New Yorker', 1976.

Photocopy of proof pages of 'Perpetua' with manuscript annotations, from the 'New Yorker', no date.

Manuscript copy of 'Perpetua' with manuscript annotations returned by the 'New Yorker', 7 March 1979.

Manuscript notes of galley proofs of 'Perpetua', no date.

Copy of 'Perpetua' as 'Eterna' in the 'New Yorker' on 8 March 1976.

Typescript of 'Ostermann interview with Mary Lavin' ('The Observer').

Typescript of 'Mary Lavin: An Examination of a Technique' by Christine Bogdanski, 29 May 1969

Three manuscript copies of 'Two Children', 1981

Typescript and printed version of 'Fieschia' by Mary Lavin

Typescript of recorded interview with Mary Lavin with T. Gullason, 3 November 1967. Photostat of corrected typescript with manuscript annotations.

Mary Lavin manuscript of interview with T. Gullason, no date.

Typescript of 'Mary Lavin: The Value of Identity', 30 January 1969

'Chapter V - The Significance of Textual Revisions, relating to Mary Lavin', no date.

Letter to Mary Lavin from Tom Gullason, 14 December 1967.

Typescript relating to Mary Lavin's stories, no date.

Typescript of 'Mary Lavin and the Life of the Mind' by Scott, Bonnie Kime, no date.

Typescript of 'Happiness' by Mary Lavin, 30 October 1984.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of an interview with Mary Lavin by L. Robert and Sylvia Stevens, no date.

Manuscript typescript pages of Mary Lavin discussing her work, no date.

Typescript copy of 'The Lucky Pair' by Mary Lavin, November 1984.

Typescript copy of 'In the Middle of the Fields' by Mary Lavin, November 1984

Typescript copy of 'The Lost Child' by Mary Lavin, November 1984

Typescript copy of 'The Mock Auction' by Mary Lavin, January 1984

Typescript of a discussion between Mary Lavin and a group of students, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massauchettes, no date.

Manuscript pages of a 'Mock Auction' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of a 'Mock Auction' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of a 'Mock Auction' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Manuscript pages of a 'Mock Auction' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of a 'Sawdust' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript of 'The Christening' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript of 'The Christening' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Grief' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Sisters' by Mary Lavin, 1969

Article on Mary Lavin by Janet E Dunleavy, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, May 1976.

Elizabeth Pearvoy: 'My Romantic and Workable Parent', no date.

Corrected proof of 'The Face of Hate' by Mary Lavin, no date.

BBC Belfast interview with Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript of 'A Pure Accident' by Mary Lavin, November 1984.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'The Mock Auction' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript of 'Two Great Writers', no date.

Typescript of 'The Shrine', no date.

Typescript of 'The Shrine', [February 1977], no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Mug of Water' by Mary Lavin, 4 April 1976.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Mug of Water' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript of 'The Mock Auction', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'Conversation Piece' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript of 'The Glass Hill', no date.

Print-off with manuscript annotation of 'Fogger Halt a Farce' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Newspaper cutting from 'Inside Tribune', Elizabeth Pearvoy writes about her mother Mary Lavin, 24 March 1985.

'Towards an Apprisal of the Religious Image of Women' by Margaret MacCurtain with references to the work of Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotations of 'A Voice from the Dead' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Jotter containing manuscript copy of 'A Voice from the Dead', 8 October 1977.

Jotter containing manuscript copy of 'A Voice from the Dead', 19 October 1977.

Typescript of 'Ostermann interview with Mary Lavin' ('The Observer'), no date.

'Gullason; an Interview with Mary Lavin', 3 November 1967

'A Memory and other stories by Mary Lavin' reviewed by Michele Murray, typescript copy, no date.

Three typescript pages entitled 'Thesis', no date.

Jotter containing manuscript copy of Mary Lavin's interview with 'Gullason', no date.

Typescript copy of Robert W Caswell's: 'Irish Political Reality and Mary Lavin's Tales from Bective Bridge', no date.

Typescript copy of an article on Mary Lavin, no author, no date.

Photocopy of letter from Daniel Murphy to Mary Lavin, 6 October 1985 and a chapter on Mary Lavin's early life.

Typescript of 'Mary Lavin and Womanhood' by Elaine March, 29 May 1969.

Typescript of 'The Double Vision of Mary Lavin: Universal Sensibility in a Particular Milieu' by Dunleavy, no date.

Jotter of manuscript copy of 'Red Dress and Blue Dress', ('Bunch of Grape'), January 1974

Photocopy of a 'Bunch of Grape' with manuscript annotation, no date.

Photocopy of an 'Appreciation-Mary Lavin's World, Lovers and Strangers' by Thomas J Murray, no date.

Off-print of 'Mary Lavin: Her Short Stories' by Masako Kameyama, no date.

Jotter containing the manuscript copy of a 'Bunch of Grape', 8 June 1974.

Photostat of typescript of 'Bunch of Grape', no date.

Typescript and manuscript fragments of 'Perpetua' as 'Ignis Fatius', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotation of 'Perpetua' as 'Outside the Gallery', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotation of 'Perpetua' as 'Outside the Gallery', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotation and manuscript copy of 'The Mock Auction', no date.

Typescript with manuscript annotation of an interview with Mary Lavin, no date.

'Tom' by Mary Lavin with manuscript annotation, no date.

'Mary Lavin and the Quotidian', no date.

Corrected proofs of 'Tom' by Mary Lavin, from 'New Yorker', 1972

A review of a 'Family Likewise' in 'Irish University Review', no date.

'A Glimpse of Katey' reviewed in 'Georgia Review', Winter 1966.

Printed copy of 'Single Lady' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Typescript of 'The Flame' by Mary Lavin, no date.

Copy of 'Small Maria' by Mary Lavin in 'Homes and Gardens', no date.

Typescript copy of 'Afterword' by Mary Lavin, 4 July 1979, accompanied by other typescript pages related to the writing of short stories.

Interview with Mary Lavin with manuscript annotation, no date.

Xerox copy of interview with Mary Lavin in 'Variety', no date.

Typescript of interview with Mary Lavin with manuscript annotations, no date.

Interview by Gullason with Mary Lavin with manuscript annotations, no date.

AccessThe materials in this collection are available by appointment only to research students, reaching staff and scholars. Research students should have a letter of recommendation from their supervisor.
Date1930-2015
Century20th, 21st
Keywords
Note

33 boxes donated by author and 2 boxes donated by Catherine A. Murphy.

A descriptive list is available here.

Repository NameUCD Special Collections
AddressJames Joyce Library University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4
EircodeD04 R7R0
Telephone(01) 716-7149
Email Addressspecial.collections@ucd.ie
Repository Web Addresshttps://www.ucd.ie/specialcollections/
CommentSome of the information listed from this repository has been extracted from lists available in the archive. These lists were compiled by library staff and we are grateful for their assistance. Where partial or no lists were available, staff of the Women's History Project constructed an outline list. Due to time constraints, not all items in this repository were examined individually.
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