YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. (1865-1939). Irish poet, dramatist and Nobel laureate. Autograph Letter Signed, “W.B. Yeats,” on his imprinted 82, Merrion Square, Dublin stationery. Two pages, octavo. Dublin, no date. Fine condition. To “Dear Mr. Macalister.” Yeats writes:

“You came to see me some months ago — or was it your president… the name being the same I am not certain — about my proposal to found a body within the Irish academy which could act as an academy of letters. The matter has to be referred again to the council but from this moment to this I have heard nothing. Please let me know what the council has decided. Yours ever, W.B. Yeats.”

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