<> Letters to George and Mercy McCann MacNeice Estate 1962 Dec 31st Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF MacNeice063 Letter Belfast, German English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice063 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/MacNeice063_1.jpg LHL Archive Belfast not so long ago. He was much taken with the Crown. Bimba has become full of generalisation e.g. 'Good people are never interesting; All interesting people are bad; Creative people are atrociously bad'. I have just had a programme suggestion accepted for All Fools' Day; the object is to lacerate the worlds of a) literature and b) journalism. I thought of calling it Angry Old Aunt. Hedli is in good form, except for a troublesome throat. She has a scheme on foot for a programme of German ballads illustrating German history (Old Ersnt Stahl by the way came to us for Xmas and we sang 'Marching to Pretoria'.) Must stop now and empty the Cess Bucket. Do try and make Dublin. Love to you both Louis. Text