<> Letters to George and Mercy McCann MacNeice Estate 1939 Feb 28th Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF MacNeice002 Letter Montreal, Nationalist, W.B. Yeats English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice002 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/MacNeice002_1.jpg LHL Archive permanent guest in a sort of super­fraternity; the other snag is their last meal is 6.15 so I sit gnawing myself with hunger during the night. Monday last I was lecturing in Montréal which I thought pretty grim but I met some Canadian nationalist boys and sat up drinking with them all night. In Ithaca on the other hand, I am very abstinent and industrious. Harriet Cohen turned up in this house yesterday; America is full of surprises. New York I met Liam O'Flaherty and Wyndham Lewis, both of whom I had slightly impudent words with. Andrew is now living a very retiring, routinal life in Brooklyn with a wonderful view of The lower Manhattan skyscrapers; he is getting naturalised. I don't think I should want to do that myself. Sufficient unto the day. Yeats is still not finished but I find I have overshot the length in my innocence (seems I have done about 120,000 words). I hear you asked Dan over to stay a weekend which is terribly nice of you. He Text