1 4, Broad Street,
Oxford Jan.12 (1922) My dear Russell Do not forget that you are to give me for the Cuala
press what portions you have ready, or what selections you wish
to make from it? The press is now ready but my sister would prefer
to print first a little paper covered edition of nine or ten poems
of mine. These however will not take her long, I would prefer that
you came next, there have been too many Yeats books. Are you ready.
If you are I will have it out with her. The increased price makes
their books rather profitable to the author -- my Four Years in her
edition has brought in £54. It is really an extra so does not inter-
fere with the ordinary edition. I wonder how you feel about the new Irish Government,
I am by constitution a pessimist & never thought they would get
as much out of Lloyd George & so am pleased, nor am I distressed
to see Madam Markieviez and other emotional ladies among the non
jurers. I am to lecture in Paris at the new Government's exhibition
there. I expect to see Griffith, now that he is the universal target,
grow almost mellow, and become the fanatic of broad-mindedness and
accuracy of statement. Hitherto he has fired at the cocanuts but
now that he is a cocanut himself he may become milkey Yrs. W.B.Yeats