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Reading the commemorative plaque on the house in Woburn Walk, near Euston Road, where William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet and dramatist, once had his London home, with him is Mr. RON LEDGER, Labour Member of Parliament for Romford. Mr. Masefield, who numbered Yeats among his closest friends when he was a young man, was paying one of his rare visits to London from his country home near Oxford to protest against what he imagined was a proposal to demolish Yeats's house in order to turn it into an extension of the Ambassadors Hotel, fronting Upper Woburn Place. But he was assured on his arrival at the scene that the exterior of the house, with the commemorative plaque, would be virtually untouched and that the renovated interior would be made as nearly as possible into a replica of the principal room that he and Yeats knew. The assurance was given to him on behalf of the owners, the London Co-Operative Society, by Mr. Ledger, who is Chairman of the Services Sub-Committee of the Society, dealing with hotels and catering. Mr. Masefield had such a pleasant surprise that he there and then decided he must write a poem. The new verses, in honour of F.B. Yeats, may be expected this autumn.
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