Letter from Lord Dunsany, Meath, Ireland, to Frank Harris, 1920 October 12 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking him for a copy of his book (probably Harris's "Lord Dunsany and Sidney Sime", which appeared in Contemporary portraits, second series. New York : Published by the author, c1919), "which has now arrived and interests me immensely"; expressing his pleasure at finding that the book pays so much honor to Dunsay's illustrator, Sydney Sime, "who seems to get no more recognition in the British Isles than Keats got while he lived"; noting that Harris's praise of Dunsany's own work makes him glad that he has "so much more to come", which is waiting to get past the barrier of the theatrical managers who "stand between the public and the drama"; stating that praise of his work makes him anxious to merit it, and that it is "only the blank, cow-like ignorance" of his work in England that "inclines me sometimes towards arrogance or a little impatience"; adding that he does not worry about his "lack of brains", as he has "seen too many people make a mess of things with their brains", and that he believes that the artist "has less to do with thinking than recording, more to do with feeling than brains."; thanking Harris for his sympathetic work of criticism, noting that the chapter on Dowson interested him immensely, although he has yet to read them all.