WB Yeats | ‘At the Hawk’s Well’, corrected typescript, and related material on his collaborations with Edmund Dulac. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £38,400
A corrected typescript by W. B. Yeats for At the Hawk’s Well and material related to his collaborations with Edmund Dulac comes up as lot 306 at Sotheby’s timed online sale of Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern in London on July 11. It includes a corrected typescript of At the Hawk’s Well, here entitled ‘The Well of Immortality’, annotated on the title page by Edmund Dulac (“Working Copy with notes by Ezra Pound & myself & corrections by W.B.Y.”), two typed letters signed, to Edmund Dulac, on the performance of At the Hawk’s Well at the Abbey Theatre, praising Dulac’s music and costume designs and other materials including a typescript of Dulac’s ‘Pan and Syrinx’, a parody of a Yeatsian Noh play, written during the final months of World War I when Dulac and his wife had escaped London for Cranleigh in Surrey. The estimate is £10,000-£15,000.
