Yeats (Jack B.)  A good and long ALS to his friend the colle...

Hammer

€500

Yeats (Jack B.)  A good and long ALS to his friend the collector Eleanor Reid in Los Angeles, on his addressed notepaper but from Portobello House, dated January 14 1935, 2 pp.  ‘I am delighted that you should be well pleased with “Caballero” & “Waif” for no painting is exactly the same to everyone which seems good and right and fair to me’ .. discussing the meanings of the word ‘Bowsie’- ‘the best known standing for a kind of companionable drinker. The other meaning is for one of those tauteners used on sailing vessels for tightening ropes ..’ (with a sketch) .. thanking her for a gift of fruit and nuts, and sending good wishes to her husband.  An unusually long and fulsome letter, but the Reids were generous collectors of his work.  With the original stamped, addressed and initialled envelope.