Stolen WB Yeats letters identified at Princeton University

Collection taken in 1970s and returned by ‘anonymous’ was spotted by John Kelly

A collection of unpublished letters written by WB Yeats that was stolen in the 1970s and returned “anonymously” has been identified at Princeton University.

John Kelly, who has spent decades tracking down thousands of Yeats’s letters, discovered the collection as he was concluding research for the latest volume of his work on the Irish poet and dramatist.

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