BIB_ID
406110
Accession number
MA 9102.1
Creator
Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922.
Display Date
1917 December 10.
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Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2017.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 31.4 x 20.3 cm
Notes
The letter includes, beneath the signature, a large pen and ink self-portrait of Yeats standing perilously close to the edge of a pedestal as he delivers a lecture to a group of three ladies and a gentlemen, seated in front of him, listen attentively.
Miss Chace was the Corresponding Secretary of the Art Students League.
Housed with a letter from John Sloan to Miss Chace, dated November 4, 1917, in reply to her inquiry and recommending John Butler Yeats as a speaker who might be "of interest to the League membership." (see MA 9102.2).
Miss Chace was the Corresponding Secretary of the Art Students League.
Housed with a letter from John Sloan to Miss Chace, dated November 4, 1917, in reply to her inquiry and recommending John Butler Yeats as a speaker who might be "of interest to the League membership." (see MA 9102.2).
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of a check for $25 in payment for a lecture he gave on November 24, 1917 at the Art Students League; saying "I have lectured several times in America, but never before was at my ease, being always in mutual dread of my audience - but this time I was at home. Such an inner voice kept assuring me that I was among my own people. I had however one anxiety - lest I should fall off that small & high platform - I was most careful not to be carried away with any kind of oratorical flow, lest I be carried away over the edge of the platform - a step too far backward or forward or on one side would have brought a collapse not on the programme."
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