Scope and arrangement
This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, legal documents, and portraits. The manuscripts and typescripts include biographies, plays, a list of plays, and music and lyrics by Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory transcribed by Robinson. The correspondence includes letters, dating from [1910] to [1958], from the author to Basil Ashmore, Padraic Colum, Lady Gregory, W. T. H. Howe, Sean O'Casey, William Butler Yeats, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1898 to 1929, between various correspondents including Lady Gregory, Sean O'Casey, W. B. Yeats, and others. There are letters to Robinson from Sara Allgood, Gerald Brosnan, Lady Gregory, Lillah McCarthy, James McNeill, Sean O'Casey, Patrick O'Hare, George Shiels, and W. B. Yeats, dating from [1910?] to 1935.
The Lennox Robinson collection of papers are arranged in four series: