ALS signed “W. B. Yeats,” one page, 4.5 x 7, no date. Letter to Sir Hugh Lane, the nephew of Lady Gregory. In full: "I may have to go to Dublin Monday or Sunday night so it had better be Sunday. Very many thanks." In fine condition. Lane was the foremost collector of Impressionist paintings in Ireland, and had at one time intended to give his collection to the Dublin Gallery of Modern Art on the condition that a gallery be built to display them. When they failed to comply, he angrily lent them to the National Gallery in London instead. Yeats became involved in the argument in 1913, as he saw the conflict as a sort of attack on culture. The controversy inspired several of his poems, which appeared in the collections Poems Written in Discouragement and Responsibilities.
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