BIB_ID
157670
Accession number
MA 3522
Creator
Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957.
Display Date
Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, 1911?.
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.4 cm
Notes
The letter is not dated. Dunsany's play, "The Gods of the Mountain," had its London premiere in 1911, suggesting that the letter was most likely written that year.
Written on stationery with engraved letterhead: "Dunsany Castle, / Co. Meath." On the lefthand side: "P. O. & Telegraph, / Dunsany." On the righthand side: "Station, Drumree, / Meath Ry."
Lord Dunsany's full name is Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany.
Written on stationery with engraved letterhead: "Dunsany Castle, / Co. Meath." On the lefthand side: "P. O. & Telegraph, / Dunsany." On the righthand side: "Station, Drumree, / Meath Ry."
Lord Dunsany's full name is Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany.
Provenance
Acquired from the New York dealer John F. Fleming (March 21, 1981).
Summary
Extending an invitation: "It will only be like a Sunday evening at A. E's, bring the same clothes and you'll meet the same people - at least there will be Colum [possibly Padraic Colum] and me. Our chief interest here is poetry so I don't think you'll feel very much 'out of it'"; mentioning that his play, The Gods of the Mountain, has had a great success at the Haymarket; discussing his past plays in comparison: "For me it was a real play whereas Argimenes is broken in two in the middle somehow and 'The Glittering Gate' was only an experiment;" adding "But come and we'll talk of the age and whether the arts will survive it."
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