He was trying to get the poet of the Irish renaissance

TCD MS 11274/45 folio 2 verso

TCD MS 11274/45 folio 2 verso

[4 January 1917]

the time.
Dearie I hope that you are well this day and that you are at Winchfield and enjoying being there and able to get some rides on the motor. I have another little sketch of myself drawn by LS last night. It isn’t quite me but I think he was trying to get the poet of the 20th century Irish renaissance and if so was fairly succesful for it is quite like a picture of Synge.
It is rather ghastly now that I look at it again. Still you will understand it was more as a flight of fancy than what I do look like just now for really I am in the best health. I think if LS had more