BIB_ID
283401
Accession number
MA 7310
Creator
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
Display Date
postmarked 1900 Dec. 15.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund, 2009.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm + envelope
Notes
The letter is dated "Friday" but the envelope is postmarked December 15, 1900. If written on Friday, the actual date of writing would be December 14, 1900.
Written on black-bordered stationery, with a black-bordered envelope.
Written on black-bordered stationery, with a black-bordered envelope.
Summary
Yeats writes about the cancelation of Althea Gyles's plans to go to Paris. Gyles had been ill for some time and was now confined to her bed in Hampstead Road, Camden. The letter mentions Mrs. Kennedy, Althea Gyles's cousin, and Annie Horniman, Yeats's friend and patron of the Abbey Theatre.
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