Collections Database Manuscript & Object Collect... Extensive archival and manu... Wyse family papers Finding AidTitle: Wyse family papers, 1816 - circa 1942
ID: 01/01/MSS00073
Primary Creator: Wyse, William Charles Bonaparte (1826-1892)
Other Creators: Wyse, Nellie Bonaparte, Wyse, Thomas, Sir (1791-1862)
Extent: 13.3 Cubic Feet
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged in the following series:
Series 1: Manuscripts and notebooks
Series 2: Books, pamphlets, and broadsides
Series 3: Correspondence
Series 4: Photographs
Items that are not listed in the contents of a particular box are shelved in UL6S, pending a move to reunite them with the rest of the Wyse collection.
Date Acquired: 00/00/1965
Languages: English
The archives of the Wyse family, a prominent Irish literary family of Waterford, Ireland, contain diaries and journals, unpublished literary works, account and letter-books, as well as published volumes and photographs. There is a great deal of literary material, ranging from the poetry, travel accounts, and other papers of Sir Thomas Wyse, a politician and diplomat of the early nineteenth century, to the mid-twentieth century verse of his great-granddaughter, Nellie Bonaparte Wyse.
The most important figure in the collection is Sir Thomas's son, William Charles Bonaparte Wyse, who played an important part in the Provencal literary movement known as the Felibrige. In the collection are many manuscripts with much unpublished poetry, diaries containing copies of correspondence with English, French, Provencal and Catalan writers and accounts of talks with them, scrapbooks with autograph letters from various literary figures, accounts of his reading, with critical remarks, catalogs of his personal library, photograph albums with signed pictures of Provencal and Catalan authors, many with original verse, and letters, as well as his published works, most of which are extremely rare and hard to find.
Correspondents of William Wyse include other writers such as George Meredith, Edmund Gosse, Stephane Mallarme, and the Irish poet Aubrey de Vere, as well as his intimates of many years, Frederic Mistral, Joseph Roumanille, Donnadieu and other felibres of the revival of Provencal poetry in the nineteenth century. His papers provide numerous insights into a movement which has had a major influence upon modern poetry in the English language.
Son of Sir Thomas Wyse of Ireland, William Charles Bonaparte Wyse became one of the guiding spirits of the Provencal literary movement known as Felibrige. After Mistral and Aubanel, he can be rated as one of the half-dozen most important poets among the some two hundred writers engaged in this movement, and as one of the most creative in his use of form and symbolism.
He was for many years an intimate of Mistral, Roumanille, Donnadieu, and other felibres of the revival of Provencal poetry in the nineteenth century.
Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Access Restrictions: Open to researchers.
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Acquisition Method: Purchased in 1965.
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Photograph album.
Language: English.
Photograph album.
Location: Waterford, etc
Language: English.
Photograph album.
Location: England
Language: English.
Photograph album.
Language: English.
Photograph album.
Language: English.
Photograph album.
Language: English.
Photograph album.
Ellen and Lionel Wyse, friends, etc.
Language: English.
Processing Information: Date Inputted: 2004/04/12
Library Notes: Photos mixed up.
Photograph.
Language: English.
Processing Information: Date Inputted: 2004/04/13
Library Notes: Number not yet written on item.
Photograph.
Location: [London]
Language: English.
Photograph.
Photograph of the corner of a room or gallery, showing portraits and plant studies hanging on a wall and a podium.
Language: English.
Processing Information: Date Inputted: 2004/04/13
Library Notes: number not yet written on back
Photograph album, ann.
An astonishing collection of 85 Provencal and Catalan poets, Mistral, Roumanille, Mathieu, Tavan, Gras, Gros, Savinien, etc. Almost all are autograph presentation and some have, as well, short poems.
Location: France and Spain
Language: English.
Photograph album.
38 photographs many of Provencal poets, their wives and children, together with friends and relatives of WCBW and his wife.
Language: English.
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