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Correspondence from John Quinn to Jack Yeats
December 31, 1914.
My dear Jack:
I received yours of the 17th Tuesday the 29th. I was delighted to hear from you. I enjoyed your description of the Gun-boat Smith-Carpentier fight immensely. I wish I had been there with you. I think we would have gone inside.
I hope that you had a good exhibition. I suppose this was interferes with the sale of sketches and of books and of pictures but I hope it won't pinch you.
I have been seeing a great deal of your father. He had dinner with me on Christmas. He is coming up tomorrow New Years day. Gregg is coming up and also Aleister Crowley a "magician" who was over here, and I fear is up against it financially.
My sympathies are with the allies in this war, although I cannot look any Irishman in the face and say that he ought to get out and fight on the side of the allies because England gave them home rule or for any other reason like that. I said to Horace Plunkett ten days ago that if Nationalist Irishmen were not enlisting in Ireland in satisfactory numbers it was because of the birds coming home to roost; that the Carsonites were not going out . . .
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