<> Letters to George and Mercy McCann MacNeice Estate 1962 Jun 25th Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF MacNeice050 Letter New Statesman, Oxford English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice050 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/MacNeice050_1.jpg LHL Archive The British Broadcasting Corporation Broadcasting House, London, W.1 Telegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London – International Telex: 22182 Telephone: Langham 4468 June 25th Dearest Mercy, I meant to write to you long ago to thank you for my marvellous Whitsun but it was impossible to write in Dublin (!) and when I got home there were certain complications and distractions afoot. It was sad you couldn't all come to Dublin too; at a conservative estimate the drinking during my 7 days there averaged 12 hour per day. The place was full of Rodgerers all bickering their heads off. Also Dominic Behan who became a bit of a menace. He came back to Brigid's one evening and spent an hour or two, while drinking up a whole bottle of her whiskey, explaining that he was a ten times better writer than I am because Life Text