At the age of 19, William Butler Yeats wrote his first play, a tragedy. The year was 1884; he titled the drama Love and Death and set it in the 12th century. The future Nobel laureate penned the work in five scuffed, cloth-bound notebooks (above), and it remained unpublished. These volumes, with their doodles and stray math calculations, were purchased by the University in 1993 from Yeats’s son Michael and recently issued online by the Boston College libraries, as part of an ongoing effort to make noteworthy holdings available to the public.