Correspondence relating to both W.B. Yeats and James Joyce comes up for sale next Wednesday and Thursday, when Mealy's holds a books and manuscripts auction at Jury's Tara Tower Hotel, Dublin.

The page shown here comes from the Joyce material, a collection of 11 letters dating from 1937 between the Trieste-based author and his old friend Thomas Keohler who was still living in Dublin.

The letters are expected to make £25,000 to £30,000 while a further body of Keohler material associated with both the Abbey Theatre and such figures as Padraic Fallon and Seamus O'Sullivan carries an estimate of £20,000 to £25,000.

The Yeats archive is a collection of family letters written by the poet's sister Elizabeth to a friend in England; its estimate is £6,000 to £8,000. Of course, the great majority of the 1,440-plus lots are printed books such as a first edition of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds (£600 to £800). The auction starts at 10.30 a.m. on each day.