Verses for Friends.

AE [George Russell]

Verses for Friends.

Dublin

Printed for the writer

Inscribed: “Patrick Kavanagh / from AE Dec. 32." Further inscribed: “Patrick Kavanagh / September / 1952 / 52 Pembroke Rd.”

In 1929, Russell launched Patrick Kavanagh as a writer, accepting three of his poems for publication in his weekly, The Irish Statesman. “A.E. opened the door to me,” he wrote. This volume was inscribed for Kavanagh by AE and twenty years later by Kavanagh himself from Pembroke Road, a street, like Raglan Road, that has been immortalized in his verse.