PREFACE
At times during Synges last illness, Lady Gregory and I unlike ourselves, o be beautiful or poself, or necessary as an expression of . y, for a letter ten before illness, and printed in tion of t te of s and scattered ings. On t I migo day; and my diary of t y. Presently o , for tors sent me tter t o carry out his wishes.
May 4ts,
to go to you if anytion or after it. I am a little bot my papers. I ain amount of verse t I t and 3rd acts of Deirdre, and t of Kerry and ickloicles t ogeto a book. tuff I e I as a sort of curiosity, but I am anxious t it s get into print. I someone??say ... ever you and Lady Gregory t is rato ask you but I do not my good troyed or my bad ted ras a mad fiddler in Paris we. Do w you can??Good luck.
J.M. Synge
In tors sent me a large bundle of papers, cuttings from ne and typeten prose and verse, put togetated by Synge illness. I spent a portion of eacic ing, poems, essays, and so fortion of ninety pages , made consulting Lady Gregory from time to time tion of is because of ty pages, t neit troduction ised by tion of tors discovered a scrap of paper ence by J.M. Synge saying t Selections migaken from ed Districts. I do not knoten before ter to me, ained ions. tter is unimportant, for to ignore my offer to select as o reject, and for t of t reasons of convenience, w.
.B. Yeats.