An Original Hand Written and Signed Letter by Poet Seamus Heaney to Faber Director Rosemary Goad. The Letter Discussing PD James Novel ‘Death in Holy Orders’ from Seamus Heaney to Rosemary Goad Dated 2004. Letter Signed, 'Seamus', Glanmore, Ashford, Co. Wicklow, 5 January 2004, to Rosemary [Goad] on personal stationery, wishing her good wishes for 2004, 'I should have written in 2003: just before Christmas I read Death in Holy Orders [by P.D. James] and wanted to shout an extra hurrah when I saw the book was dedicated to you. (I'm always behind with the books I should read - had been apprised of Dalgleish's Beowulf read at bedtime but didn't want to page-hop to the Heaney reference). Anyhow, the book is indeed the "distinguished thing." Phyllis must be proud of it - such a page-turner but also so solidly peopled, and so subtly also. Great gumption and glue in the writing, and a bedrock sense of human nature... I am likely now to start doing a Yeats and making a habit of thrillers and detective stories. No westerns, though.... ', some toning to margins, Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber. Size is 195mm x 147mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Age toning to edges.