William Butler Yeats

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Portrait of William Butler Yeats.

Portrait of William Butler Yeats.

Photo: Pirie MacDonald. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Source: United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division

Yeats scissors

A pair of scissors and a letter-knife from the desk of William Butler Yeats.

Photo: Gabriel Hildebrand, The Nobel Museum

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