Quarto. One page sent from the Nassau Hotel in Dublin dated 29 October 1907 with a few manuscript corrections in the hand of Yeats. Docketed on verso in blue editor's pencil, Two punch holes in margin, old folds from mailing, some small tears, very good. To "My dear Bullen (or Sidgewick [sic])" requesting: "Please send a copy of 'ideas of good and evil' to Mrs. Patrick Campbell. at once as she is leaving for America in a few days. She is going to play 'Dierdre' at the Abbey Theatre. and has asked for 'ideas' and I would not for the world it missed reaching her in time. Please send a copy of 'Dierdre' to B. Iden Payne." Yeats' *Diedre, Being Volume Five of Plays for an Irish Theatre* was first published in 1907 by A.H. Bullen (in London) and Maunsel & Co. in Dublin. His *Ideas of Good and Evil* had also been published by Bullen in 1903. Bullen was an English editor, publisher, and founder, with partner Frank Sidgwick of the Shakespeare Head Press, which for its first decades was a publisher of fine editions in the tradition of the Kelmscott Press, and which published collected editions of Shakespeare and Yeats. Mrs. Patrick Campbell was one of the great English thespians who specialized in Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, and J.M. Barrie. Seller Inventory # 556864

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Title: Typed Letter Signed ("W. B. Yeats")

Publisher: Dublin

Publication Date: 1907

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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