Yeats’ work fetches over €100,000 at auction

A VALUABLE literary collection including letters and a manuscript by WB Yeats fetched stg£72,000 (€104,572) at auction in London yesterday.

The collection was mounted in an album by Sir Sydney Cockerell, a friend of Yeats, and book collector, connoisseur and museum director.

It includes 18 letters signed by Yeats to Sir Sydney as well as a manuscript of his essay, The Tragic Theatre, written in 1910.