75/1257 Heaney, S. AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED "Seamus", to "Misha [de Vreede]", black pen and ink, dated "16. i. 95", on fold. card w. three letterpress lines from Heaney's poem "The Strand" opposite the authogr. note and a col. reproduction of a watercolour by FELIM EGAN on the front ("Privately published by Peter Fallon").

= Thanking Mischa de Vreede for her letter: "You were very good to write like that after the news of the Nobel Prize. It did me good to have the writers on my side [signed]". Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1995. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXV.