An autograph signed letter by William Butler Yeats on the headed notepaper of his residence "Riversdale, Willbrook, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin" to actress Jill Noone;
in reply to an enquiry about a copyright fee for a broadcast performance of one of his poems
31 May [no year given ca. 1933].
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| Summary: | In reply to an enquiry about about a copyright fee for a broadcast performance of one of his poems, Yeats replies:"All my poems are copyright. I do not even know what the fee is, or whether the reciter pays, or the broadcasting company. All that is arranged by my agent A.P. Watt & Sons". The letter is dated May 31, no year, circa 1933. Includes a typed note from H. Watt, London, to Ms. Noone, June 20th 1933, saying he has forwarded her card on to Mr. Yeats. |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
| Citation: | National Library of Ireland. Department of Manuscripts. |
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| Notes: | Jill Noone was a teacher at the Ursuline school in Sligo. She was a successful amateur actress with the Sligo Unknowns group, founded in 1929 and had the central part of the young wife in their prizewinning
production of T.C. Murray's "Autumn Fire". Includes a printed note from Mrs. W.B. Yeats, acknowledging a message of sympathy on her husband's death, February 1939; a single sheet with cognate blank. more |
| Arrangement: | Fonds |
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MS 49,393 |
Manuscripts Reading Room |
Manuscripts |
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