Auction Date:2010 Jul 14 @ 22:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS signed “Dad (Sean) xxxxx,” one page both sides, 7 x 9, personal letterhead, March 3, 1958. Letter to his daughter Shivaun in New York. In part: “By the time you get this, you should be in New York, or coming close to it. Take care of yourself, and don’t tire yourself too much…What an experienced traveler [!] you will be when you return to the quiet of St. Mary church, where only a few people go about, and the daffodils are content with a sedate dance…I dare say, you know Brian hopes to hold an Exhibition soon of some of his pictures & those of a few other artists. He is very busy framing these and painting new ones…The Dublin Drama Festival has been abandoned, for the Council was unable to find plays as suitable substitutes for those withdrawn. It has been a disappointing business. My earnest blessing, darling, on all you do; but remember my advice to memorise, if you can, a few things to say when Broadcasting or on Television; be calm & relaxed as you can.” At the conclusion of the letter, O’Casey has sketched himself asleep in a parlor chair, with the sun shining through a window, captioned “Dreaming of Spring.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one horizontal fold through “Dad,” and some scattered trivial foxing and toning. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed in O’Casey’s hand.
This proved to be an interesting year for O’Casey, as just about no one in Dublin got a chance to see any of his performances. As he explained, the Dublin Drama Festival had to abandon its plans for an exhibition after banning his plays, and O'Casey's Drums of Father Ned was withdrawn from Dublin Theater Festival for the summer of 1958 after the Roman Catholic Church’s archbishop in Dublin disapproved of it and other selections. His reaction was typical—he banned all his plays from production in any part of the Irish Republic. The ban was in effect the rest of his life, though he did lift it on occasion. O'Casey explained his feelings behind the ban in a 1963 article in The New York Times, in which he said, in part, “I learned how to resist all aggressive attempts to make me a docile one, and could hit back as hard as he who could hit hardest.” The author managed to find another creative outlet at the close of this letter—a dreamily humorous self-portrait sketch.
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