AUDEN (W H): on side ALS on Kirchstetten headed paper, dated Aug 20th 1963, apologising to Jon Wynne

AUDEN (W H): on side ALS on Kirchstetten headed paper, dated...

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AUDEN (W H): on side ALS on Kirchstetten headed paper, dated Aug 20th 1963, apologising to Jon Wynne-Tyson for not having replied to his enquiry about Morris's Icelandic journals, and presenting him with manuscript drafts of two of his poems...'as for your other projects,  I enclose two poems. Prologue at Sixty appeared last year in the New York Review of Books: In Due Season here, not appeared anywhere, Yours sincerely W H Auden...': the former transcribed in Auden's hand onto four sides, the latter one side, both in blue ink: together with short TLS from same to Centaur Press requesting a copy of the Poems of William Barnes, dated Nov 9th 1962, plus a further one side ALS dated Aug 1968 relating to the publication of 'In Due Season', together with two related envelopes addressed in Auden's hand. (Small qty)

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