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Yeats (Elizabeth Corbet, "Lollie", printer

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(24 by Elizabeth Yeats, 5 by Susan Yeats), c. 74pp. & some envelopes, v.s., Cuala Industries, Ltd., Churchtown, Dundrum, Merrion Square & Lower Baggot Street, 27th September 1916 - 3rd March 1940, on various matters, including: the private printing of Cecil & Desmond Harmsworth's book, "Holiday Verses and others", "Yes - we have sometimes done some "privately printed" small books... Could you tell me how many copies you would want? I first ask number of copies because - I am afraid we could not promise to do a big number before Xmas as we are doing a new book - indeed the Press is never idle...", Irish Politics in the newly created Irish Free State, "Here most people I see seem greatly confident that the Election will prove that the country is for the Treaty, I hope they are right! If they have the Franchise then we are lost - as all the... (girls) are for De Valera - he is their hero - I expect they are all half in love with him. If he had not shown emotion when beaten at the Dail - all might have been different - that scene touched their hearts of these emotional women. They are really a nuisance they know so little - girls of 30 here are like girls of 19 elsewhere, Jack B. Yeats, "I hope you had a pleasant Christmas - we had a very pleasant day as Jack & his wife spent the day with us in Dundrum & Jack is always such good company & his wife so cheery too..."; W.B. Yeats, "Yes W.B. lives now permanently in Dublin 82 Merrion Square - & then they have the old Elizabethan castle or tower in Galway 'Thoor Ballylee' his little girl Anne has just developed scarlet fever - so he has a new anxiety - & his house was fired into the week before last - they think accidentally in a night shooting - bullets right through two gloves & with the childrens' night nursery with cleaner both asleep... ."; death of W.B. Yeats, "Our brother's death was a great shock & sorrow to us - he had been so much better... I think of late years we got too accustomed to the idea that he was a sick man- but we all I mean the family, trusted to his fine vitality that had triumphed so often... . I think 'W.B.' had a great eye - & I think his influence for the best always was very far-reaching - even to spend a few hours with him made the world seem a finer richer place - vistas opened..."; death of Elizabeth Yeats, "Elizabeth had an interesting life - & a short & fairly painless illness at the end, the only illness of her life"; and a small quantity of other material including a photograph of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats, autograph manuscript and typescripts and the proof of Holiday Verses, signed receipts from the Cuala Press etc., folds, v.s., v.d.(c. 60 pieces)

***A fine collection of material relating to the Cuala Press..

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