Letter 15 August 42, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Sean O'Faolain.

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Letter 15 August 42, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Sean O'Faolain.

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Autograph letter signed from W.B. Yeats to Irish writer Sean O'Faolain discussing permissions to reprint poetry or verse and the origins of a poet. Together with another letter to O'Faolain, no date, concerning P.E.N. membership. In the same folder is an autograph note from Yeats "To dearest Linc" on black-bordered stationary, an autograph letter to Henry Woodd Nevinson, no date, and a drawing of a psalter by Yeats on the back of a dinner party name card.

1 p. 29.2 cm.

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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

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