May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
"BURY THE GUNS & THE GENERALS WITH THEM" O'CASEY, SEAN. Autograph Letter Signed, to Martha Millet, praising her book of poems, agreeing with its anti-war message, stating that America, England, and Ireland are controlled by dangerous fools, expressing sympathy with her life as a housewife, and comparing the suffering of the Irish with that of Jews. 2 pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet, personal stationery; folds. With the original envelope. Totnes, Devon, 15 October 1952
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". . . [W]e must change our way from war to peace--from madness to sense; & . . . we must create from the quiet force of peace, a new life, unafraid of singing. I have many things to do . . . . We have three children, & . . . it is very difficult to try to make their way plain before them, for we know it not ourselves.
"You have had a hard life, so have I--Jew and Gentile--but we can still open our mouths to speak unto people, telling all loudly if we can, quietly if we must, that we are all brothers and sisters, forged in the fire of humanity . . . . America is beautiful. It is not her fault that she is, for the moment, in the power of dangerous fools. So are we here. So is Ireland. Generals everywhere now speak with the voice of God. . . . Well, we'll have to bury the guns & the Generals with them.
". . . [Y]our people, the Jews, have suffered terribly. So have we Irish. Millions & millions perished by plague, famine, & war. . . ."