Desmond O'Grady Archive - a series of 5 letters from Desmond...

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Desmond O'Grady Archive - a series of 5 letters from Desmond O'Grady to Dr John Wyse Jackson including a signed copy of The Dying Gaul from Desmond O'Grady with written note to John Wyse Jackson which details O'Grady's work with Ezra Pound on a book from Pound for W. B.Yeats's 30th Anniversary. Another details a poetry reading with Siobhán McKenna (Siobhán read Patrick Kavanagh), meeting with Michael Yeats to talk of the Cuala Press beginning again in 1969. He writes from Rapello (Italy), and being in Porta Fina with Ezra, visiting the place where W. B. Yeats had a flat in 1929, see his letters and the Bar Rapallo for a drink "where they were all together: Pound & Yeats and Ford Maddox Ford etc. Includes a working draft of The Victory Of Brian Boru.

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Auction Date: 24th Mar 2021 at 10am

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