€500 - €600
Gay, Jovial Letters
Yeats (Jack B.) ALS on his headed Notepaper, 61 Marlborough Road, June 5th 1929, 1 pp, to an unnamed recipient (probably an English bookdealer). ‘Dear Sir, I have to sell 12 holograph letters from John Masefield to myself, gay, jovial letters, all with humorous verses for £80 .. Of course they would have to be offered for sale privately only, not printed in a catalogue or anywhere else. I wonder would you like to buy them.’ With a fine bold signature. Lightly scored through vertically once, perhaps by the recipient.
Evidently Yeats was finding it difficult to make ends meet in 1929, or he would hardly have considered selling his letters.
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