Desk used by WB Yeats sells at five times top estimate at Sotheby’s sale but letters to lover fail to sell
The desk used by poet WB Yeats has sold for £150,000 (£187,000 inc premium) this morning, five times its top estimate of £30,000.
However, a group of more than 130 letters from WB Yeats to his first lover, then life-long friend an…