YEATS (William Butler, 1865-1939, Irish Poet & Dramatist)

Incomplete Autograph Letter lacking the signature to an unnamed correspondent, presumably a portrait painter, saying that “you will see by the address on this letter that I am out of England. We are giving up our Oxford house (which is let) & I shall be here till Sept & after that in Dublin. If I were still in England I would sit to you with pleasure...”, half of 1 side 8vo., 4 Broad Street, Oxford headed paper, Thoor Ballylee, Gort, Galway stamped, 1st June no year, circa

He was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
Yeats had his summer home at at Thoor Ballylee near Gort in County Galway since 1919. He leased Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham in 1932.

Item Date:  1932

Stock No:  42569      £475

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