Letter from Katharine Tynan, Clondalkin, to George Pellew, 1888 January 11 autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking him for "...that pretty Tourgeneff; it was of all books the one I should have chosen. My friends usually think I prefer poetry to all else and as I gradually acquire all the good poets they are driven to giving me minor ones when I should so infinitely prefer good prose...In advance I must say how much I shall appreciate the cheap editions. I suppose they reprint Stevenson's things. These I should like to see sometime and Besant's newest novels, - all Stevenson roughly. I have an immense admiration for him;" adding "The Mayor of Kilkenny sent me his book some time ago, but I have never yet looked into it. I did not care very much for the Mayor and he committed the unpardonable offence of spelling my name with a C degrading my regal Katharine in a half-bourgeois, half-old-maidish Catharine. Mr. Yeats whose poetry you heard of is here now, has been here since November. He is going to bring out a volume of his poems by subscription. Will you be a subscriber and can you get any subscribers? The price will be 5/. There is a poem of mine in the New York Catholic World - do you know the magazine? - This month; perhaps you will see it. I have not set seen it, as they have not had sufficiently good manners to send me a copy. I am doing a good deal of prose at present, today I finished an article on Dublin for Oscar Wilde's Woman's World. There are also some articles of mine on Irish life coming out in The Magazine of Art; one has already appeared. I am going to send a poem to The Century. Mr Williams of the Providence Journal who was here in autumn, promised me an introduction to Mr. Gilder. An artist here who was asked at one time to submit his work to The Century thinks of illustrating the poem, which will be about the "Children of Lis." I have been pulling my room to pieces and will tell you about my alterations and additions in my next letter. Perhaps you will come across my friend Mr. Hodgson; if so say you are a friend of mine. He is at 5 Boylston Place, the office of the Psychical Society. My sisters are very indignant because you never mention them. Ask for them in your next without betraying that I told you to."