1 Hillcroft
Steep
Petersfield, Hants 6/11/23 Dear Yeats I was very pleased to have
your letter but very sorry learn
that your eyes are troubling you
again and hope that they may
soon recover once more. I am
glad you like so much of my
Judas as you have been able to
read we have not been able to
make out quite all the words
in your letter, I think in many
ways that shorter poems are
a better thing to produce than
long ones quite apart from
the fact that they have a wider 2 public so few people can give the time
and patience necessary to become
really acquainted with a long poem
and though they perhaps give that to
only one in 10 or 12 of the short pieces
of the poet they prefer, he at least becomes
more definite for them than the author
of a poem they only tried to read and
meant to return to but didnt. I never feel really like writing poetry
now untill I have worked up a whole
atmosphere, and so I must be long for
lack of power to be short. I enclose a letter from one of the
demonstrators at the School of
Medicine of the London University
These young women who mean to
be doctors are amazingly devoted
to poetry and give up half their
lunch hour once a week to read
it together.
3 They are a very sympathetic audience and
if you could spare time when you are
in London some time to go and
read to them or talk to them they
would be very delighted & count it
no end of an honour. They are quite simple and unpretentious
and far more enthusiastic than critical
you will see that De la Mare has been
and I went. I am glad to hear that Mrs Yeats
is waking up the Cuala Industries
and hope you are all well. Yours ever
T.S. Moore P.S. Could you just let me have a P.C.
to say if there is any chance of your being
able to accede to their request and when so that
I can let our friend know.