WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)

The Bounty of Sweden was Yeats' tribute to Swe- den for his award of the Nobel Prize. Printing of the work was completed on the last day of May 1925 in an edition of 400 copies. It was the first book issued from Cuala's new shop and workrooms at 133 Lower Baggot Street in Dublin, to which the press had moved after several years in the poet's house at 82 Merrion Square, Dublin.

The circular device on the title page, depicting a hawk attacking a small bird, was designed by T. Sturge Moore at Yeats' request in 1921. This copy is a setting or proof copy, with numerous pencil corrections in the margins, inscribed by Yeats on July 9, 1925.

Autograph letter signed, to [Shri Purohit] Swami, Dublin, July 3 [1932], 2 pages.

As a young man, Yeats studied at the School of Art in Dublin where, along with a fellow student George Russell (A.E.), he developed an interest in mystic religion and the supernatural. In this letter to an Indian Swami, one of a series in the University of Delaware Library's Special Collections, Yeats compares phenomena experienced by gurus to those recorded by European saints and mediums.