DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING letters written by James Joyce and WB Yeats, were sold at auction for almost €20,000 at Bloomsbury in London yesterday. The letters were from the collections of Cecil and Desmond Harmsworth.
In one document, Desmond Harmsworth recalls his attempts to draw a portrait of Joyce.
This, along with other documents, went for £1,845 (€2,079). A 1927 letter from WB Yeats to politician Cecil Harmsworth in which he made an appeal about a union of Ireland, sold for £3,198 (€3,605).
A 1932 letter from Joyce to Desmond Harmsworth, dealing with the writer's eye problems, was sold for £7,995 (€9,006) while a letter from painter Jack B Yeats, was in a collection which was sold for £3,198 (€3,605).
