YEATS WILLIAM BUTLER Brief Typed Letter Signed W B Yeats to

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YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. Brief Typed Letter Signed, "W. B. Yeats," to publisher Frank Sidgwick (misspelled as Sisdgwick), "I send herewith the preliminary verses for the Shadowy Waters. The verses about the Seven Woods come first." 1/2 page, single 4to sheet, but with the blank bottom half lacking; folds. Np, circa 1908?

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Shadowy Waters, a verse play first conceived by Yeats in 1885, occupied much of his literary career, with numerous revisions and publications. This note likely refers to the 1909 publication within a collection of poems issued by A. H. Bullen.