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1	1902-1938	Yeats, W.B. Letters. Letter from W.B. Yeats to William Sharp ; 12 June (1902). The book I got my colours from was a book I read in the National Library in Dublin, but I forget its name. It gave the colours of the winds, not only in Ireland but in various parts of Asia. One of the most curious things about it was that all the colour schemes were different. One Asiatic tribe made the north wind yellow for instance, while another if I recollect rightly made the west wind yellows. Letter from W.B. Yeats to Robert Bridges ; June 23 [1915]. Dear Mr. Bridges :I send you Ezra Pound's Cathay, his book of Chinese translations. Letter from W.B. Yeats to J.B. Yeats ; March 14 [1916 ?]. I think Keats perhaps greater than Shelley and beyond words greater than Swinburne because he makes pictures one cannot forget and sees them as full of rhythm as a Chinese painting. Letter from W.B. Yeats to Edmund Dulac ; Dec. 1st [1922]. My dear Dulac, When you send the Chinese pictures you will have, I think, to make a declaration as to content of parcel – but the post office or parcel post office will explain – and you had better register and insutre and send in the bill for the amount of this. Letter from W.B. Yeats to Edmund Dulac ; Oct. 14 [1923]. The Chinese pictures hang now in my study and are the great ornaments of the room. Letter from W.B. Yeats to Edmund Dulac ; Jan. 28, 1924. If anything brings you to a sale of Chinese pictures do not forget me. There is a space of 46 inches wide between two bookcases, and I want a Chinese picture for that space. I don't imagine any Chinese picture is as wide as that. The two pictures you sent me are about 36 inches, margin and all, and that will do excellently. Letter from W.B. Yeats to Olivia Shakespear ; July 31or Aug. 31 (1929). I have just had an offer of a professorship in Japan for a year… If my health is good enough it would be new life. 3 months, while Formosa (where the University is) is too hot for a European, wandering about Japanese temples among the hills – all the best Chinese art is in Japan… Letter from W.B. Yeats to Lady Gregory ; April 7, 1930. Ezra Pound arrived the other day, his first visit since I got ill – fear of infection – and being warned by his wife tried to be very peaceable but couldn't help being very litigious about Confucius who I consider should have worn an Eighteenth Century wig and preached in St. Paul's, and he thinks the perfect man. Letter from W.B. Yeats to Olivia Shakespear ; Febr. 9, [1931]. Apart from these young men – who will only glance at A vision – I shall have a few very devoted readers like a certain doctor in the North of England who sits every night for and half hour in front of a Buddha lit with many candles – his sole escape from a life of toil. Letter from W.B. Yeats to Olivia Shakespear ; November. Last Sunday [Nov. 23, 1931]. Would you write the name of the Chinese book – golden flowers or whatever it is – on the enclosed postcard and post it. [Possibly The secret of the golden flower by Richard Wilhelm]. Letter from W.B. Yeats to Olivia Shakespeare ; Dec 15 [1931]. That Chinese book has given me something I have long wanted, a study of meditation that has not come out of the jungle. I distrust the jungle. Letter from W.B. Yeats to Olivia Shakespear ; Aug. 17 [1933]. If you see the Swami tell him that I have now finished my study of various authorities and am about to start my essay upon his master's journey in Tibet. [Hamsi, Bhagwân Shri. The holy mountain]. Letter from W.B. Yeats to Olivia Shakespear ; Oct. 24 [1933]. I think that George and I will be in London for a few days in about three weeks, George to see her mother and I to go through my essay on the Tibetan travels of his Master with the Swami. This essay – seven or eight thousand words – has taken me two months at least, has grown to have great importance in my scheme of things. 1935 Letter from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley ; Riversdale, June 14, 1935. To-day I have read – not for the first time – your lovely enigmatic poem 'The Old Mill'. One word puzzles me. Your three cats scale sacks and rafters to 'the rafters blind'. Why 'blind' ? The poem makes me remember that in China and Indo-China the houses – or so a certain traveller tells me – have no parks but rise out of the wild rocks and trees because 'Nature must be as little disturbed as possible'. 1935 Letter from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley ; Riversdale, July 6 [19]35. I notice that you have much lapis lazuli ; someone has sent me a present of a great piece carved by some Chinese sculptor into the semblance of a mountain with temple, trees, paths and an ascetic and pupil about to climb the mountain. 1936 Letter from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley ; Savile Club, June 25 [1936]. I think much of the most beautiful of Chinese lanthorns, your face. 1936 Letter from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley ; Riversdale, June 30 [1936]. Last Sunday at 4.30 I was about to start from the Savile to see the Chinese Collection at South Kensington when the porter told me that the museum closed at 5 on Sunday. 1937 Letter from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley ; Riversdale Wednesday [Received Jan. 1, 1937]. PS. My son has returned with your gift. I thank you for those charming things which I have placed beside my blue mountain, where the Chinese musicians climb to the little guest house or temple. Letter from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley ; Febr. 18 [1937]. Hilda Matheson has asked me about Edith Sitwell's name which is in the Broadside advertisement. Do you remember our going through her works, looking in vain for a poem about a Queen of China's daughter, which you remembered ? You wanted something of hers. I found that poem in Faber & Faber's anthology – she had left it out of her Collected poems. It is very simple and very charming. 1937 Letter from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley ; Riversdale, July 26th, 1937. A MARRIAGE ODE On thrones from China to Peru All sorts of kings have sat That men and women of all sorts Proclaimed both good and great ; And what's the odds if such as these For reasons of the State Have kept their lovers waiting, Kept their lovers waiting… Letter from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley ; Jan. 22nd, 1938. Yesterday I reminded myself that an Eastern sage had promised me a quiet death, and hoped that it would come before I had to face On the boiler No. 2.	Document: Yeats, W.B. Letters on poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. (London : Oxford University Press, 1964). http://ia700508.us.archive.org/10/items/lettersonpoetry030323mbp/lettersonpoetry030323mbp.pdf. (Yea35, Publication) Person: Yeats, William Butler

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1		Universitäts-Bibliothek Basel	Publication / UBB