I mentioned earlier that Yeats achieved a great scholarly accomplishment with the publication of the Stewart catalog. This, however, was not his only achievement. Yeats has the unique distinction of having been intimately connected with three world class author collections, two of which he built and the other he organized. Building and organizing these collections was also a great act of scholarship. However, insuring the survival of his own collection for use by future researchers was probably his greatest contribution.	Notes (1) Alvice Whitehurst Yeats,Kipling Collections in the James McG. Stewart and the Univesity of Texas Libraries: An Appraisal of Resources for Literary Investigation, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas, Austin, June 1961, 14. (2) Ibid, 15 (3) Ibid, 17 (4) Ibid, 13 (5) Andrew Lycett, “On Writing a Biography of Kipling,” The Kipling Journal 74, 293 (March 2000), 31. Collectors might also note that copies of the bibliography are apparently still available for purchase at a very reasonable price from Dalhousie. (6) Kipling Collections, 20 (7) Yeats, letter to Francis Hudspeth, 19 April 1959, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.
Steven Escar Smith, October 2001 Steven Escar Smith is Special Collections Librarian and the C Clifford Wendler Cushing Memorial Library Professor at Texas A&M University. His professional duties include maintaining and acquiring books, manuscripts, and other material for the A W Yeats Kipling Collection for the University.