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Dublin
I Nov I8

My dear Mrs Pilhington, It was a pleasure to hear from you
again and I hope now that thin dreadful war seems coming to an end
that you will be able to come to Ireland again on a Vibit. I will
write to Mr Hart. So far a: I am concerned Le could use anything I
wrote but the copyright of tho poema is not mine but Macmilldns and
I would have no power to give permission to have the verses printed
& set to muaic though I could i would urge on them to be as reasona—
ble as possible and would willingly forgo any 9 yment to myself if I
liked the airs. Ireland is changing and yet the a me. But Heaven a»
lone knows shut political luture is before us. I feel rather do—
pressed at the moment but have a deep faith in the future of our peo-
ple. The literary movement gets new & promising adherents from the
young men growing up. Austin Clarke promises to be a literary succes-
sor to Yeats. His Vengeance of Fiohn written when he was twenty was
a wonderful work for a boy. James Stophons was not known when you
were here. Hie ‘roso romances "Tho Crock of Gold" & "The Demigods"
are splcndid fantasia: in the Celtic_fashion and there are others
coming along who are good. I feel a great grandfather of the literary
movement with all those young men growing up, rather an extinct vol—
cano. I hope for a revival when the war is over & thm weight is lift"
ed from ones heart. Even the poor Homestead has suffered. I cant push
any policy because everything is regulated & I would now be puehing
against a wall of granite. I year should see some relaxation & a move-
ment forward, but to what, anyhow it will be splendid not to be regu—
lated & free to advise & choose. Susan Mitchell sends kind greetings
& so I am sure would Henry Norman but he is away in the country at
the moment. I have just published through Macwillan a new book "The
Candle of Vision” LhiCh is mystical & will I believe b; the end of me
in the opinion.cdjmactral persons but I dont mind. With kind regards

'Yours ever

hrs Pilkington l
The Candle of Vision' Russell's contribution to literature con—
cerning Theoso hic thong t It apneare

i 918. .
Austin Clarke I896— rish poet. Sign“&engeance of Fionn"

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was PEPl ohed ln Igl" of the "Irish Homestead" andulater

“Susan MlECﬂell was an able assistant in the office/of the Irish
otatesman , a close friend of Russell. She died in March, 1926.

Henry Norman. Probably Henry T. Norman, a member of Russell's en-
tourage in Dublin. _

Fritz Hart told me to—day, April SI, 19:7, that Mrs Pilkington in-
itiated his introduction to n. E. and led to hid setting many of A.
E.'s Poems to mueic. Mr Hart visited Dublin to meet George w. Rug—
eell LA.E.] and arrange further for this object, and gave LS an in—
teresting account of he meeting.

See "A Memoir of AE" by John Eglington (John Magoo). London: 1937.

(Collection of Captain r. L. Pleadwﬁll of Honolulu.)