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Autograph Letter Signed ‘Wystan Auden’, to Mr. [Branko] Brusar, apologising for taking so long over the children’s poems, but “I was frightfully busy with rehearsals of an opera and then with various lectures I had to give”. 11 x 8 inches, in fine condition. 77 St Mark’s Place, New York, 10 November 1966. “… to revise translations of children’s poems is fiendishly difficult. They must sound well in English and yet sound like the work of children not of adults.” Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), poet. B.S.Brusar was a Croatian literary translator.