| Collection Name: |
Sydney Goodsir Smith Papers |
| Repository Name: |
University of Delaware. Library. Special Collections Department [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
Newark, Delaware, United States |
| URL: |
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/smith_sg.htm |
| Dates Spanned: |
1954-1960 |
| Description: |
The Sydney Goodsir Smith Papers date primarily from the late 1950s and early 1960s, an especially nationalist phase in Smith’s literary career. The collection contains several drafts and advance proofs of Smith’s play The Wallace and manuscripts of his long dramatic poems, Gowdsmith in Reekie and The Vision of the Prodigal Son. Also present are seventeen pieces of correspondence and the manuscripts of about twenty prose pieces, including essays, reviews, and scripts from radio talks. |
| Broad Subjects: |
Performing Arts; Intellectual life; Literature |
| ASP Subjects: |
Authors; Literature; Playwriting; Theater; United States; Writing |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0004918 |
