[{"node":{"title":"MacNeice002","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1939 Feb 28th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice002","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Montreal, Nationalist, W.B. Yeats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice002","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/MacNeice002_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"permanent guest in a sort of super\u00adfraternity; the other snag is their last meal is 6.15 so I\n\nsit gnawing myself with hunger during the night. Monday last I was lecturing in Montr\u00e9al\n\nwhich I thought pretty grim but I met some Canadian nationalist boys and sat up drinking\n\nwith them all night.\n\nIn Ithaca on the other hand, I am very abstinent and industrious. Harriet Cohen turned up\n\nin this house yesterday; America is full of surprises.\n\nNew York I met Liam O'Flaherty and Wyndham Lewis, both of whom I had slightly\n\nimpudent words with. Andrew is now living a very retiring, routinal life in Brooklyn with a\n\nwonderful view of The lower Manhattan skyscrapers; he is getting naturalised. I don't\n\nthink I should want to do that myself. Sufficient unto the day. Yeats is still not finished but\n\nI find I have overshot the length in my innocence (seems I have done about 120,000\n\nwords).\n\nI hear you asked Dan over to stay a weekend which is terribly nice of you. He\n","Type":"Text"}}]