YEATS WILLIAM BUTLER Autograph Letter Signed WBYeats to his

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"ELEVEN IN THE MORNING IS TOO EARLY FOR ANYTHING" YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. Autograph Letter Signed, "WBYeats," to his publisher Charles Elkin Mathews ("My dear Mr Matthews"), requesting a later meeting to accommodate the schedule of Arthur Symons. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank. With the original envelope, addressed in his hand. [London], "Tuesday night" [16 January 1896: from postmark]

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"Eleven in the morning is too early for anything. I go to bed now at 2:30 or 3 AM & breakfast at 12:30 that I may fall in with Symons's wants, so that it would suit me better if you could get Mr. Horton round in the afternoon. Twelve I could manage at a pinch but eleven no."
British poet Arthur Symons (1865-1945) was a member of the Rhymers' Club, a social and literary group formed by Yeats and Ernest Rhys in 1890. In 1896, Symons was Yeats's flatmate at Foutain Court in the Temple area of London.