1899-11-03 to Augusta Gregory

Autograph letter signed, Wellesley College, 219 words

[Edited for paragraph breaks, capitalization, spelling and punctuation.]

SHELBOURNE HOTEL,DUBLIN.

[Friday, 3 November 1899]

My dear Lady Gregory

Thank you many times for copying the pages. My reason for telegraphing was Yeats’s bad writing and my hurried reading. I thought that many further alterations were being made which might upset my calculations.

I quite agree about Foley’s proposal. Yeats sent me some valuable suggestions which I will make use of.

By the time you receive this you will have read the fourth act and approved of it I hope. Martyn liked it and it seemed to me to go very well when I read it to him. You saw that I dropped out those two intolerable women, Mrs. Leach and Mrs. Cassidy.

Tell Yeats that I am dropping them out of the fifth act. He will be, I know, delighted to hear of their disappearance. I am writing an almost entirely new fifth act. It is nearly finished.

Jasper Dean comes out very prominently and Lawrence disappears. This will delight Yeats. I shall then remove Mrs. Leach and Mrs. Cassidy from the second act. The vulgarity of those two women exceeds anything I know of in literature.

Kindest regards to my fellow.

Always sincerely yours

George Moore