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Aet. 48, to an Irish woman of letters. Her home at Coole Park was misspelled Cool in the manuscript letter.

This letter concerns the collaboration of George Moore and W. B. Yeats on Diarmuid and Grania for the Irish Literary Theatre. Yeats was proposing to spend a month rewriting George’s draft of Act 2.

The play premiered at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin on 21 October 1901 along with Douglas Hyde’s Irish-language Casadh an tSugáin (The Twisting of the Hay Rope).

Carnacon was situated near George’s home Moore Hall.

George and his old friend Edward Martyn were not on speaking terms since the transformation of Edward’s The Tale of a Town into George’s The Bending of the Bough for the Irish literary Theatre earlier in 1900.

This is the earliest typed letter in George Moore’s extant correspondence.