William Butler Yeats
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1 (of 2) Portrait of William Butler Yeats.
Photo: Pirie MacDonald. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Source: United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
2 (of 2) 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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