Moine

réf. 2162 — 24 Sandycove Road Sandycove Co. Dublin 26 May 1954. Poet. Two pages 8vo good condition. He gotr the impression from a letter George sent that he and another approved of Monk Gibbon's book. He quotes Flaubert on the idea that an author works hard but cannot expect profit "but to fail to see it even in print would stick in my gizzard." He asks for advice - does he know anybody at Heinemann he knows someone. "Has Verschoyle money behind him". He is finding delay and "subsequent disappointments too wearing. And with each one the typescript gets a little more woebegone". He discussses his and George's movements refers to "the Dublin transcripts" see below tells of plans to review George's new book for the "Irish Times". Since George is reading the typescript he will not ask Storm Jameson to do so. Poss. referring to his "Western Germany" 1955. This letter is enclosed in a pamphlet XXVth International Congress of the P.E.N. "The Literature of Peoples whose Language restricts wide Recognition" In Irish also Dublin-Belfast 8-13 June 1953 good condition to which Gibbon contributed "On the status of poetry today". George has scrawled a reference to Gibbon's article/speech on the front cover. 24 Sandycove Road, Sandycove, Co. Dublin, 26 May 1954. unknown