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Yeats (William Butler, poet, 1865-1939)

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2pp., 4to, Merrion Square, Dublin, 7th May 1927, recounting a meeting with Lord Birkenhead regarding Sir Hugh Lane's pictures, "The interview was valuable chiefly because it seemed to prove that the real opposition is not the legal difficulty but the alleged bargain with Duveen and the desire to keep a valuable property. I commenced the interview by making the point... about the necessity of giving Ireland intellectual pride. He then said something about the matter not being in his department, to which I replied that I saw him at Churchill's suggestion and that Churchill had said 'You will find him very tough as all his objections are legal'. He said 'No, not all legal'" and talked of objections from Joseph Duveen who was paying for an extension to the Tate Gallery, "... he... brought the interview to an end by addressing me as if I were a public meeting 'I have always stated that the Free State has observed all its obligations under the Treaty with the most scrupulous honour.' I felt entitled to say 'You wont like it if we turn into a potato digging republic; and a copy of the letter sent to Lord Birkenhead, folds.

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