Autograph letter signed : Dublin, to Cornelius Weygandt, 1902 May 28.

Responding to his letter which had been forwarded by Yeats; saying that he did not publish "Deirdre" "...though a couple of scenes were printed in a little paper edited by Mr. Standish OGrady called the 'All Ireland Review'...I have no immediate intention of publishing it, but shall probably do so later...;" expressing his pleasure at hearing "...that our Irish writers are read in the States. There are many poets here who write beautiful lyrics who are quite unknown out of Ireland because they never collected them from the pages of obscure magazines. Praise never stirred them to that small degree of vanity which suggests that other people would like to have the verses in a connected form. I have seen many verses signed 'I.O.', 'Alice Milligan', Ethna Carberry', 'Oghma', 'Paul Gregan', which I enviously wish I could claim as my own. A rich harvest awaits the anthologist who will patiently go over the files of little revolutionary papers and collect from them. I think myself many of these unknown poets & poetesses write verses which no living English writer could surpass."