[ Autograph ] Sean O'casey 1880-1964 Irish playwright who wrote working-class plays for the Abbey Theater, including " Junoi and the Paycock" and "The Silver Tassie". Superb philosophical content T.L.S.1p. 8vo., Devon, May 31, 1956 to a disconsolate lady in New York. O'casey offers advice: '..Im sorry to read you are 'lonely among the lonely'...I have self-assurance only in my own integrity,. aside fromthat I am as shy as [George Bernard] Shaw was shy. Even when I work.. I feel as if I were but a half-numbed beginner; but I always try to do my best... It may be that you think a little too much about yourself Try not to do so. It is vain and futile: and breeds loneliness... Show was a very great man, and he was content to live his life in a corner... Fools who know not the glory of life simplicity..As for what is called fame, let it come, if it will,. but seek it not... [it] often destroys the soul who pursues it... the corner of life which we cheerfully choose (as Shaw did), if we live can carry us, through imagination, to the ends of the earth...' Fine condition, with transmittal envelope with his name and address in his hand.