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CITY 5010 & 5011 Telegrams GWALIATEL, LONDON HOTEL GWALIA
UPPER WOBURN PLACE,
LONDON, W.C.1 January 11 1920 Dictated Dear Squire One never knows whether one's work
isobscure or not, till one has shown
it to some one else. One has
the clue oneself. The meaning
is as plain to oneself as
certain hidden representations which
Beardsly used to secrete in a
drawing for a publisher whom
he disliked - as plain to
oneself as that representation
was to the publisher when 2 he discovered it one day
after publication ---. I will try & send you something
else, but if I do not the
reason will be that the
only alternative is a group
of poems which I want published
together & which get their
weight & fire from a little group
of verses suggested by the Irish
Rebellion. I doubt if you
would care to risk these in
the present disturbed state of
Ireland, I havent made up
my own mind as to whether I 3 Telephones:
CITY 5010 & 5011 Telegrams GWALIATEL, LONDON HOTEL GWALIA
UPPER WOBURN PLACE,
LONDON, W.C.1 ought to risk them. While Irish
youth is in its inflammable state
I may end by publishing them
only in one of my sisters expensive
little books where they can do
no harm. I dont feel at this
present moment that I should
separate the other poems from
them. Yours sincerely
W B Yeats