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YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. Autograph letter signed ("WB Yeats") to LADY GREGORY, Dublin, 22 February n.y. [1932]. 1 page, 4to, on pale blue paper with his address at head, a bit creased from folding, with the original envelope addressed by Yeats. ON CENSORSHIP, etc.: "...I am being interviewed today by The Manchester Guardian on the censor's banning of The Puritan ([Liam] O'Flaherty's book). Tomorrow I will correct the manuscript of the interview. The interviewer is [deaf?] & if I do no corrections heaven knows what will go in. I must make a fight for the book. One hears such comments on political events as 'when those Church of Ireland gunmen...get out of jail every thing will start popping'; or 'will [President] De Valera have the nerve to suppress Shawn Gonne before he shoots the town up,' as I remember Shaun Gonne so like the Christ Child that O'Delany (Maud Gonne's old retainer) said his [her?] prayers with a rosary made out of his shed buttons..." Not in Letters, ed. A. Wade, and presumably unpublished.