{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"MacNeice001","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1939 Feb 29th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice001","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ithaca, Snowbound, Students","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice001","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/MacNeice001_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice001\n\nTelluride Association, Ithaca, N.Y, 1939?, M.S.R.MacC\n\nFeb. 29th\nDear Mercy and George, I know I ought to have written before but this country is so damn nickel-in-the-slot one had no time for anything. I have been having a lovely time though too much of it taken up shouting about poetry from platforms. I came over on a boat full of foreigners (refugees) who all thought I was foreign too, only some different kind, which made it a bit esperanto but the food was good, also the pingpong, however after 12 days of it I was pleased to make New York which was griddled with ice but a candid blue sky on the top and my lady love met me at the boat which was unexpected, so we went off and had duckling cooked with black cherries and oranges. I was about a fortnight in New York and then came up to this very remarkable, un-gettable and snowbound place \u2013 3 gorges and thousands of students. I am staying as a \n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1053"}},{"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","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Monday, August 15, 2016 - 16:39","Nid":"1054"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice003","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1939 Feb 29th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice003","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Romania, London","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice003","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/MacNeice003_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"2.\nsent me a letter through Patience all about girls (by the way here is a 20/- postal order which my pal in Pennsylvania sent me, for Patience.) Miss Potter, it seems, is a bit depressed being so cut off from civilisation. She wrote asking my plans but unfortunately I don't know what they are as yet. I may get an offer to stay over here which, H. M. grant willing, I should probably be pleased to accept. But I guess I should still come back this summer, If I was going to be here for some time, I should like to bring Dan over but I don't quite know how. \n\nO hell, someone is now playing cherries in one of the college towers (this, I am told, is the university Eric Linklater put into Juan in America.) The great thing about the students here is they're not shy; they tell you all about the poems they wrote at puberty and how they showed them to their mothers. \n\nIf you go to London, I suggest \n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1055"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice004","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1939 Feb 29th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice004","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Father, B.B.C","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice004","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/MacNeice004_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"you look up (better drop a card first) Mrs. Coldstream, 9 Percy Street, off Tottenham Court Road. She is very lovely, living there by herself, driving ambulances. Do write and tell me all about Europe (the chimes are marching: The Prince of Wales tells off his Horse.) Everyone here seems bored with Europe except that they go sentimental over Finland. I must go down now and have my 6.15 meal. What a pity you're not all over here. I hope to hire or borrow a car later and get around further; the country is disgracefully big. Please write, with all best wishes, love, Louis. \n\nFrom Louis MacNeice, Telluride Association, Ithaca, N.Y. \n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1056"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice005","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1942 Apr 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice005","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast, B.B.C","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice005","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/MacNeice005_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice005\nApril 21st\nDear Mercy, Thank you very much for your letter. My father apparently had a quick and easy death and I am glad of that. I saw George shortly before he left England. He was very eager that we should find you some work on the B.B.C. I talked to my boss about it to seemed to think your age etc made it more difficult but \u2013 if you are interested \u2013 why\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1057"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice006","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1942 Apr 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice006","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Alexandria, Sudan, Athens","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice006","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/MacNeice006_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice006\n\nnot meet Denis Johnston some time in Belfast and discuss possibilities? Tell them you know Chinese. Yes, I should love to come and see you in the summer. In the meantime my best address is just B.B.C., London, but mark it personal. In haste, love, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1058"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice007","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1942 Jun 22nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice007","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"British Consul, King William, Byzantine","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice007","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/MacNeice007_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice007\n\nTel 71.664 71.940, The British Institute 17, Philikias Etairias Athens\nJune 22nd\nDear George, Yes, of course. As soon as they ask me I'll send them a gilt-edged testimonial. Sorry I didn't answer your earlier letter. So Bertie's got too extroverted has he? A wee fellow called Geoffrey May from Dublin a (I suppose a relation of Fred May but much less tiresome) passed through here, having been axed by the B. Council in Alexandria and will be staying in Belfast on his way to the Sudan. So I gave him your name. He is a nice chap who seems able to enjoy himself. Athens is rather a fuelled-up town but the country's magnificent. As a nice American girl artist said to me the other day, it doesn't suffer from Italy's Goddamn picturesqueness. But it must be a headache to a western painter as the landscape here's got no tonality. \n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1059"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice008","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1942 Jun 22nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice008","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Married, County Tyrone","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice008","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/MacNeice008_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice008\n\nAll my family flourishes. Bimba now sings in 4 languages and also plays the recorder. Hedli has got rather buxom on retsina and oil but is in v. good voice though rather quick temper. Everyone from the U.K. gets quick tempered here, possibly from the noise (an Athenian can make an amplifier out of anything). The British colony has some nice members after all; the British counsel in Patras , a suburban wee man, told me that the saying in Patras is that half the British Embassy in Athrens is 'existentialist'. While in Patras I went over (don't tell Matt McGuire) to Missolonghi. All I can say is: naturally he died. These are some Victorian-Romantic (v. bad) canvasses in Missolonghi Town Hall featuring highly combustive battles with Ibhrahim Pasha on a white horse rampant doing the King Billy act. The best building we've seen in Greece is the Byzantine monastry at Daphni and the best antiquity  \u2013 without a doubt \u2013 is Mycenae. Write and tell us some soonish, love to Mercy and yourself Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1060"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice009","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1942 Jul 4th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice009","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Congratulations","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice009","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/MacNeice009_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice009\nJuly 4th\n6 Maiden Lane, London, W.C.2.\nDear Mercy, This is just to tell you that I got married this Wednesday to someone you will like very much. Her name is Hedli and George met her with me in London. We both hope to come over to Ireland about July 20th for at least a fortnight. I suppose you wouldn't be about Belfast when we arrive; my stepmother will be in Co. Tyrone and it may be rather forlorn hitting that great city with no one we want to see there. Must stop now and work on a programme about Hitler,\nLove, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1061"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice010","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1942 Jul 6th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice010","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Daughter","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice010","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/MacNeice010_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice010\nMr and Mrs MacNeice, 6, Maiden Lane, London W.C.2\n\nCongratulations on your marriage. Every happiness to you. I shall be delighted if you both can come and stay at Vinecash on 20th. Please telegraph reply before Saturday. Writing, Mercy\n30 40.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1062"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice011","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1942 Aug 20th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice011","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Conscription","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice011","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/MacNeice011_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice 011\n\nPortadown Phonograms 6 Jul 1943\n3/50 m Prefix. 37\nPost Office Telegram\nTime handed in: 11:10\nOffice of Origin and Service Instructions: North London\nWords: 18\nMrs McCann Vinecash Portadown N-Ireland =\nDaughter born yesterday both well suggest you postpone visit till August love = Louis MacNeice +\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1063"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice012","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1945 Oct 25th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice012","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Fine fettle","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice012","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/MacNeice012_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice012\n\nDear Mercy, Just a line to say how lovely it was staying with you and thank you again. You will remember you're going to write a feature won't you? I'll send you some samples. Am pretty busy already but it looks as if I'm going to be called up. Very tiresome not knowing for certain, when we want to fix up about Dan and houses and things. I gather H. has written you a lot, so won't encumber you with more, especially as I can't use this pen. Love and Slainte, Louis\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1064"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice013","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1946 Feb 12th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice013","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Henry Moore, Machiavellian","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice013","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/MacNeice013_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice013\n\nPost Office Telegram\nNo. F33 Office Stamp\nTime handed in. 1/11\nOffice of Origin and Service Instructions. Oxford St A\nWords. 14\nMacCann Vinecash Portadown =\nDined with and slept George in fine fettle much love = MacNeices\n++Dined with and slet** Le McCain\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1065"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice014","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1946 Feb 12th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice014","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"My Dark Tower, Essex","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice014","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/MacNeice014_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice 014\n\nThe British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting House, London, W1, Telephone: Welbeck 4468 Cables: Broadcasts, London Inland Telegrams: Broadcasts, Telex, London\n\nDear George, Sorry not to have answered your letter before. I wrote to the CEMA boys saying that you were an ace at book-keeping, turning the other cheek etc. Did anything come of it? Saw Henry Moore the other day who remembered you kindly. When are you coming to London? (I'll probably be back in Belfast in April). The family flourish, only Corinna now wakes up daily at 5.0 a.m. Which is bad for morale. I am trying to place my play (stage) and getting involved with c. 50 % Machiavellian types and\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1066"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice015","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1951 Dec 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice015","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Lions","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice015","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/MacNeice015_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice015\n\nc 50% na\u00efve enthusiasts. The sad thing is that it is (in my opinion) a good play with no nonsense about it and doesn't require either sharp dealing or gush. But I suppose writing for the theatre is a mug's game. I'm sorry you didn't hear my Dark Tower. It's my favourite programme to date. The public either loved it or loathed it (I have a heap of letters \u2013 ecstatic and virulent). Mrs. Gray wrote to Hedli, greatly pleasing her. We move house at end of March and go all moujik in Essex. I'm looking forward to this but Hedli has bouts of alarm and despondency. Love to Mercy and yourself. Yours ever, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1067"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice016","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1951 Dec 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice016","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Christmas","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice016","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/MacNeice016_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice016\n\nDelos Lions\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1068"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice017","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1951 Dec 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice017","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Military, Regiment","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice017","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/MacNeice017_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice017\n\nLondon W.1. 17 DEC 1951\nWith all good Xmas wishes and love from Hedli and Louis.\nMay be seeing you in January.\nL.\n\n17th Dec. 1951\nMr & Mrs George MacCann11B Botanic Avenue Belfast N. Ireland\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1069"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice018","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1952 Apr 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice018","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Exams, Rugby","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice018","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/MacNeice018_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice018\n\nThe British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelephone: Langham 4468\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London\n\nApril 19th\nDear George, In haste. Just to let you know that Dan signed on about a fortnight ago for military service and that he will be having his medical (on 4 days notice) sometime after his 18th birthday which is May 15th. They gave him some documents on which he was encouraged to call at the nearest recruiting office before his medical to discuss his preferences \u2013 though the documents didn't say that he had an option as to which regiment he entered. However...if there are any strings you could pull for the Skins we should all be extremely grateful. Also \u2013 so that Dan doesn't make any howlers if asked why he's keen on the Skins \u2013 do you think you could write it down for him\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1070"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice019","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1952 Apr 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice019","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Queen's University, Belfast","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice019","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/MacNeice019_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice019\n\njust one or two (not too many) basic facts about the Regiment. I believe he's going to write to you himself about this but he's slow on the pen. Did we tell you that he's now left school and is cramming at home for this bloody tiresome exam in July? I'm sorry to hear that Mercy was ill but hope you are now both flourishing. What an anticlimactic Rugby season it's been. By the way, what about those samples of tweeds? Tannti saluti to you both, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1071"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice020","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1957 Jan 23rd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice020","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Grand Central","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice020","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/MacNeice020_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice020\n\nJan23rd1957\n\nThe British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelephone: Langham 4468 Telegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London\nJanuary 23rd 1957\n\nDear George, Thank you very much for your letters. Here are two copies of the missing last page of the play. I have just had a letter from Goldblatt and agree that the title is inadequate. I shall comb my brains for an alternative. Could you do likewise? By the way, Goldblatt only offers me a percentage on takings. I should prefer some cash down \u2013 as an advance or an option or what-have-you! Anyhow, you might tactfully indicate to Goldblatt that before I am really committed I would wish to have a contract for this \u2013 or at any rate something definite and detailed on paper. I am very glad that you are going to do the d\u00e9cor for this and would like to discuss it with you when I am over round about the 10th. I must thank Mercy and yourself very much for inviting Bob Pocok and me to stay \u2013 which we are both greatly looking forward to. It looks now as if we shall be coming up, possibly by car, from Dublin to Belfast on Sunday the 10th, arriving at approximately 7pm. Please get in a couple of bottles of Whiskey on account of Bob and myself \u2013 and we will refund the same! Please don't forget about the tickets for the England-Ireland match. The best thing would be for you to get them in time to send over here to me well in advance, but if it's too near the date could you entrust them to some safe hands in Dublin from which I could collect them on the morning of the 9th? Thank you very much indeed \u2013 and Mercy too \u2013 for your kind words (apart from the facetious qualifications) about my prospective doctorate. Hedli and I would certainly be delighted to stay with you for the occasion. I have just had a letter from Queen's in which they say that I and my wife can 'of course' be their guests for the occasion. Do you think I could charge them the price of a posh\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1072"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice021","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1957 Jan 23rd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice021","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"London, Funfairs","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice021","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/MacNeice021_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"COOL RECEPTION\n\nHIGHLAND BARD EATON LAO.\n\n*COOL RECEPTION COLOPTIMIST\n\nTRAPPIST BOY\n\n*EATON LAO.\n\nroom for two in the Grand Central for two nights, and then we could all have a party on\n\nit?! Apparently we have to go to a Ceremonial Dinner on the night of the 9th\n\nevening dress with miniature decorations\u201d. I suppose you no longer have a set of tails\n\nwhich you could lend me? You will both like Bob Pocock very much. He is, by the way,\n\nplaying with the idea of doing a programme (provided the BBC High\u00adups agree to it) about\n\nthe Skins \u2013 which might give the opportunity for several joyous conferences at the\n\nCorporation's expense. Love to Mercy and yourself. Yours ever, Louis. (Louis MacNeice)\n\nP.S. Please tell Goldblatt that I shall be writing to him.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Monday, August 15, 2016 - 16:41","Nid":"1073"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice022","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1957 Feb 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice022","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Loch Lomond","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice022","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/MacNeice022_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice 022\n\nDear George and Mercy, This is just to thank you (belatedly) very much indeed for all your hospitality to Bob and myself. We could not have enjoyed ourselves more. Thank you for your letter about Goldblatt. Since I received it I have seen him in London (with Miss d'Arcy) and have given him a revised version of the play with which he seems well pleased. About the d\u00e9cor, I told Goldblatt that apart from normal size portholes I feel we ought to have at least one larger aperture (say a rectangular window about 3ft square) opening on to the deck, so that when requires one could really see people passing outside. I agree with Goldblatt that there ought to be at least one table down stage. I feel myself that this should be a low-to-ground job, as for cocktails; it ought to be round but it could have quite a diameter. There is a new little bit towards the very end where they will play a sort of parlour game with paper propellers \u2013 or whirligigs or windmills \u2013 or whatever you like to call them; anyhow I mean those little things mounted on short sticks or canes which children run about with at funfairs. I don't know if this is in your province [arrow] such a different colour but, if it is, each of these objects ought to have three blades and, as you will see from the script, ought to be easily detachable so that the characters can throw them on the floor with no trouble. Five such objects will be required per performance and, if economy really demanded, I suppose they could be so constructed that they could be re-assembled afterwards?! Goldblatt thinks it would be a good idea at the beginning of act III to have members of the crew crossing the stage before the action starts. If we do this, I would suggest that in Act I when the boat is still in port we\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1074"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice023","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1957 Feb 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice023","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"London, Geneva","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice023","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/MacNeice023_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice023\n1957\nshould have two or three members of the crew lightly dressed \u2013 while the wireless is still playing loch Lomond, scurrying across the stage carrying piles of baggage allegedly belonging to the new passengers. In Act III we are of course out at sea, but we might have a couple of sailors crossing rather urgently and dressed say in oilskins, preferably either glistening wet or crusted with frost. That's all I can think of at the moment. Remember to keep the bar tatty throughout and please try to think up some small dodges to indicate changes of climate. Love to you both and hoping to see you soon. Yours ever, Louis. (Louis MacNeice) PS. The play is now to be called Traitors in Our Way.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1075"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice024","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1958 Jan 25th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice024","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Australian, B.B.C","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice024","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/MacNeice024_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice024\n\nJan 25th\nTel. Paddington 5380.\n2, Clarence Terrace, Regent;s Park, N.W.1.\nDear George, Thank you for your letter. I'm very sorry you're upset at my 'not bothering to answer letters'; in fact I'd thought I had answered your congratulations one (for which anyway v. many thanks) but there was a whole file of correspondence in which I lost my way, so maybe I didn't. Then I'd been playing with the idea of dropping in on Belfast after the Australian match in Dublin but this was prevented by my suddenly having a new programme thrown at my head \u2013 for which I'm leaving for Geneva tomorrow morning. I'll be away not more than ten days, so I would v. much like those tickets if Jackie Kyle can raise them. He could have them sent here \u2013 or I could pick them up anywhere in London. But I'm afraid your suggestion that we might put him and his wife up is not feasible as we haven't at the moment a spare bed for them (anyway wouldn't they want to stick with the rest of the XV?) If you and Mercy, however, come in the summer H. says she's sure we can solve the bedding problem (it's quite\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1076"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice025","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1958 Jan 25th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice025","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Puppies, B.B.C","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice025","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/MacNeice025_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice025\n\nsimple of course if Bimba's away). Bimba has just been telling the girls at her school that I paint my toenails. She says she did this to amuse them. It should help my reputation a lot. The Australian game, as you will know, was a bit palaeolithic on their side; I think they lost it by frustrating the Irish pack. I was surprised to find in Dublin how unpopular O'Reilly has become. He's certainly a bit prima donna-ish; I watched him holding court in the Shelborne. I'm glad Mulligan is back; I think he's brilliant. The B.B.C. has accepted a suggestion of mine for an All Fools Day programme, to deal with the state of contemporary journalism and literature \u2013 a little bit of mud for everyone. Soon after that I'm being seconded for 6 months to television. Everyone here is behaving in character. Except possibly Jack, whose wife has now come to live in London. Did you hear a v. attractive programme of his called 'Twelve by the Mail'? Recent triple generalisation by Bimba: - Good People are Never Interesting: Interesting People are Always Bad: Creative People are ATROCIOUSLY Bad.' Love to both of you, Yours ever, Louis. PS. And thank you again for taking so much trouble over the tickets.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1077"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice026","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1958 Jul 31st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice026","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Camera","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice026","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/MacNeice026_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice026\n\nThe British Broadcasting Corporation\nHead office: Broadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelevision Centre: Wood Lane, London, W.12\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, London, Telex\nInternational Telex 22182 Telephone: Shepherds Bush 8030\n\nJuly 31st\nDear George, Please forgive me for not having answered your letter sooner. What with TV and bull terrier puppies we have been terribly distracted lately. About your suggestion that you might become a television designer, I'm not myself sure that this is feasible. I think the B.B.C. only take people on for this who're pretty young and anyhow, once one is on, it strikes me as being perhaps the most thankless of all the thankless jobs in the business. Each designer is designing about five\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1078"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice027","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1958 Jul 31st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice027","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dublin, Dido","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice027","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/MacNeice027_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice027\n\nshows at the same time (which involves of course calculations for camera and boom positions, lighting etc.) but most of what he does is never properly seen by the public. However, if you'd like me to make inquiries, I will \u2013 provided I can find someone to question about it who doesn't, like many of them, regard me with dark suspicion as a dangerous intruder from sound. I have just been given a such production for August 22nd, a half hour play by J. L. Hodson about a Northern tycoon. Not profound or particularly exciting but quite a nice character study. Anyway I'm pleased to be starting on something after...\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1079"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice028","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1958 Jul 31st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice028","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Switzerland, Christian","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice028","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/MacNeice028_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice028\n\n2\nThe British Broadcasting Corporation\nHead office: Broadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelevision Centre: Wood Lane, London, W.12\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, London, Telex\nInternational Telex 22182 Telephone: Shepherds Bush 8030\n\ntagging round other people's production galleries. I trust you and Mercy flourish. I have to go to Dublin on August 30th and might be able to hang on for a few days, in which case I hope to see you. Hedli has been v. busy hand-rearing Phoebe's two pups (you heard about her caesarean) who are growing v. solid. They are called Thomas and Dido. We think we may keep Thomas who looks like becoming a large dog with class. On the other hand he is more oafish than Dido. We are going to the I.O.W. cottage this weekend to hack a\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1080"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice029","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1958 Jul 31st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice029","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Matisse, Irishman","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice029","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/MacNeice029_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice029\n\npath to the front door and dig a new cesspit for the Goronwy Rees's who are going to spend most of August there. Bimba is in Switzerland with her grandparents. Her latest remark when telling Hedli ours was not a Christian household: 'And as for the Prayer Book with all those horribly conceited prayers saying 'Lord I am so humble, Thou must give me all thou hast'!... Must now get on with my chores (this office has a fine view of the Metropolitan Railway). Love to Mercy and yourself. Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1081"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice030","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1960 Oct 18th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice030","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Kinsale, Anuerin Bevan","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice030","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/MacNeice030_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice030\n\nThe British Broadcasting Corporation\nHead office: Broadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, London, Telex\nInternational Telex 22182 Telephone: Langham 4468\n\nOct 18th\nDear George, It was good to hear you on the telephone and thank you also for your letter. Bimba was pleased with her Matisse and will be writing to you, I imagine, in time; she is still getting used to the Slade. I gather Mary may have sounded a bit aloof when she first spoke to you on the telephone as she thought you were someone else, a rather dubious Irishman from Bath whom we met on the Island of Sark! I'd dearly like to come over again but there's little likelihood of it for a couple of months as I'm behindhand with 3 jobs simultaneously. A good man called David Lytton (B.B.C., knows all about South Africa) is just about to visit the Six Counties; I told him to look you up. Gerald Hanley appeared in the George yesterday and told me about the evening he had with you in Cork.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1082"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice031","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1960 Oct 18th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice031","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Trinity College, Dublin, Aran Islands","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice031","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/MacNeice031_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice031\n\nI gather he's going to sell his house and move up the West Coast somewhere. He tells me your man MacFarlane has been reduced to beet-picking. Bimba liked your decorations in Kinsale and so, she says, did everyone else with the exception of one very drunk lady who said they made her feel giddy. I'm surprised Hedli didn't tell you that now she has an Afghan bitch (black and gold) which we procured over here in a great rush when Bimba was crossing in July. Bob Pocock returns salaams. He recently did a good programme of assembled tape recordings about Aneurin Bevan. Dominic Behan had a fight in the George with Rene Cutforth and the landlord, Martin Sweeney, involving \u00a325 of damage to a window. Martin S. is leaving this week to take on a pub of his own. Everyone is wondering where they'll get their cheques cashed. Much love to both of you, Louis. Saw London Irish play London Scottish. A poor game but McCarten was good to watch.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1083"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice032","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1961 Jan 6th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice032","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ibsen, Dutch","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice032","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/MacNeice032_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\n\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\n\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, London, Telex International Telex: 22182 Telephone:\n\nLangham 4468\n\nJan 6th\n\nDarling Mercy, Bimba and I enjoyed Dublin. First person we met was Seumas Kavanagh,\n\nbearded now, who bought her Gaelic coffees. She also had her first oysters \u2013 Galway\n\nBay. The Wilkinsons gave us an exorbitant amount of fried eggs at midnight. David\n\nGreene, bearded too of course, told Bimba how to get in to T.C.D. She liked the Library v.\n\nmuch. A minute (about 4 ft.) Italian girl came to see me about a thesis she's writing on\n\nAutumn Journal. We also went to both the National and Municipal Galleries. Both days\n\nthe sun shone. But here it's bloody cold. Saw Bertie yeterday and told him about Harden.\n\nI'm going to stay with him sometime next week. Bimba bought herself a great Aran island\n\npullover in Dublin. Would have\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Monday, August 15, 2016 - 17:00","Nid":"1084"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice033","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1961 Jan 6th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice033","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Elizabeth, Stepmother","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice033","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/MacNeice033_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"liked to get one for myself but am not as well off as Bimba. Thank you v. much indeed for\n\neverything. You supplied the core of the holidays. Bimba I think was much set up by her\n\nvisit. She is all agog now to get at her big new canvas. I went down with M. last night to\n\nthe mermaid theatre at Puddledock to discuss a part for her in Ibsen but they said she\n\nwas to young for it. Rather awful since the Mermaid and Ibsen would constitute a good re-\nentry to the theatre. If George comes over he must be sure to let me know in advance.\n\nAnita, the Dutch girl, will always take messages. Love to you both, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Monday, August 15, 2016 - 17:01","Nid":"1085"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice034","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Jan 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice034","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Glandular Fever, Twickenham","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice034","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/MacNeice034_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice034\n\nThe British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelephone: Welbeck 4468 Telegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London\n\nJun 17th\nDear George, In haste. Thank you for your letter. Hope you can wrangle seats but if not I'll still be glad to mill in with oi polloi. Greeks pronounce e\u00e9 poll\u00e9e. I think I'll probably cross on Thursday night, prob. by Heysham and prob. accompanied by my sister Elizabeth (could you be at home for breakfast?) and shall have to stay Friday night with my stepmother. Could I stay with you Sat night and drift back to S.M. on Sunday? Looking forward to seeing you both. Yours ever, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1086"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice035","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Jan 29th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice035","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Faust, Brussels, Inland Revenue","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice035","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/MacNeice035_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice035\nThe British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London \u2013 International Telex: 22182\nTelephone: Langham 4468\n\nJan 29th\nDear George and Mercy, Please forgive me for not having written before to thank you for the nice Postal Order. Things have been a bit hectic: Mary's son (who has grown 8 inches in a year) suddenly got glandular fever and they're both still stuck down in the country with the grandparents who're not exactly fighting fit either. So I'm being a grass widower and Bimba, who'd hardly boiled an egg till the other day, is teaching herself a) basic shopping, b) basic cookery. I shall be going to the England-Ireland match at Twickenham, having got some ground tickets. But if you hear of any stand seats going, I'd jump at them. Not that I think\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1087"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice036","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Jan 29th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice036","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Botanic Avenue","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice036","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/MacNeice036_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"MacNeice036\n\nwe have much of a chance. What came over those ould Selectors? I am preparing a new radio production of Goethe's Faust \u2013 also a thing of my own, based on the voyage of Maelduin, called The Mad Islands. I tried to get Michael MacLiammoir for Faust but he had some commitment in Brussels, I think. Bimba spent her Xmas holidays in Kinsale painting Elizabeth Bowen! She was having an exam in the Slade on anatomy today, poor girl. The Inland Revenue are now trying to tax me on the Italia Prize for radio I got in 1954. They also think I was working some fiddle with Restituta over the money (her savings) I used to send to Naples on her behalf. You can't win! Love to you both, Louis\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1088"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice037","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Feb 7th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice037","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"New Statesman","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice037","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/MacNeice037_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"POST OFFICE TELEGRAM Langham 4468 Charges to pay 4/18\nPrefix. Time handed in. Office of Origin and Service Instructions. Words.\nF158 3.58 OXFORD ST A 22\nMACCANN 23 BOTANIC AVENUE BELFAST = Could keep you one ground ticket also put you up please telephone Gulliver 9885 Thursday morning = Louis +\n[STAMP] BELFAST 7FE 62\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1089"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice038","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Feb 12th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice038","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice038","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/MacNeice038_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London \u2013 International Telex: 22182\nTelephone: Langham 4468\n\nFeb 12\nDearest Mercy, In great haste \u2013 rushing back to see George. Herewith a cheque (easily covered by New Statesman fee). George has just today for the first time met Mary who came up from Berkhamsted where she's been tending to her sick son and coping with the batty old folks. What was a pity was that she was in \u201ca state\u201d which only happens about twice a year but, when it does, it really is a state. But, I don't think George, not knowing her, noticed it so much. The match, though sad, was a very good spectacle. Much love \u2013 Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1090"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice039","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Mar 6th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice039","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Jury's Inn","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice039","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/MacNeice039_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelephone: Langham 4468 Telegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London\n\nMarch 6th Dear George, In haste. This is just to confirm, as they say, that I'll be in Dublin for the match, with a ticket for yourself. I'm arriving Dublin breakfast time Friday and staying in Trinity (I don't know when I'm going back but probably Sunday evening). I'm meeting Harry Craig in the Pearl Bar at 1.0 pm Friday but, if I don't see you before\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1091"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice040","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Mar 6th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice040","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Elephants","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice040","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/MacNeice040_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"I'll meet you in the downstairs bar in Jury's at 11.0 am Saturday \u2013 after which we might move round some of the other joints. As long as O'Reilly doesn't drift off, I think we have a chance. Love to Mercy and yourself, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1092"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice041","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Mar 18th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice041","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ireland","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice041","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/MacNeice041_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London \u2013 International Telex: 22182\nTelephone: Langham 4468\n\nMarch 15th Mercy darling, In haste. Have chosen 3 elephants (Misses McCullough, Morrison and Walters) \u2013 largely I fear (they all seem v. clever to me!) by 'a process of elimination', e.g. throwing out all those who spell my name 'ie' etc. By the way they all have one mistake 'efficiency' for 'efficacy'. God be with you both, Love, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1093"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice042","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Mar 29th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice042","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast, B.B.C","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice042","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/MacNeice042_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London \u2013 International Telex: 22182\nTelephone: Langham 4468\n\nMercy darling, Thank you for your letter: so glad you liked Faust \u2013 only hope it didn't exhaust you. Hedli has been in London, on her way back from Switzerland where her father was ill. Saw her two or three times and she was nice except when she got high. She also made a date to have a drink with Mary then sprang nasty old Dr. Desmond O'Neill on her! Anyhow I made those points to her about 'maintenance' which she seemed to understand, so I hope that won't arise again with you. Almost time for our visit to Ireland, Charles B is taking his holiday till the week beginning April 30th (the actual day is adjustable) but whether we come at all depends on whether\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1094"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice043","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Mar 29th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice043","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Kinsale, Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice043","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/MacNeice043_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"Mary has broadcasts in the week before. Charles (no doubt rightly) is apprehensive at the prospect of coming to Ireland with me without her!//(Nextday) A)Mary has just got a booking for Tuesday 24th April, so we couldn't leave at the earliest before that evening, B) Karl Miller, my old young chum on the Statesman, wants me to write a piece about Dublin for him (which would mean fare, fee and a few expenses) so I think I'll be coming over around match time anyway. If all three of us come, what we might do is come to Belfast after the match on Saturday evening and stay till Monday with you? I'm not quite sure how we'll amuse Charles in Belfast apart from playing table tennis in the B.B.C. club. Any ideas? I'm going back on my six months off soon, so the programme I've just recorded will be my last for some time \u2013 The Mad Islands (cast mainly Irish). It goes out at 8:30 from next Wednesday. You might like it. Love to both, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1095"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice044","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Apr 13th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice044","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Martello Tower","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice044","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/MacNeice044_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London \u2013 International Telex: 22182\nTelephone: Langham 4468\n\nApril 13th\nMercy darling, So far as I remember from your last, George is away tomorrow to Kinsale(!) and you are following shortly, the two of you returning to Belfast April 24th. In spite of the Ireland v Wales match being cancelled Mary and Charles (her son) and I are still preparing to go over to Dublin after Ester and \u2013 if it's all right with you \u2013 would like to come to Belfast (= Bot. Ave.!) on Sat. April 28th, to leave again for England Mon 30th. Could you let me know if this would suit you?? Love as ever, Louis. P.S. Bimba, as you will see, has yet once more done appalling things to her hair!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1096"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice045","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Apr 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice045","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dublin, Hertfordshire","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice045","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/MacNeice045_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London \u2013 International Telex: 22182\nTelephone: Langham 4468\n\nApril 17th\nMercy darling, I can't remember if you will have gone south yet but this is just to let you know that, what with one thing and another (mainly work and teeth) we shall have to call off our Irish visit this time. It's sickening but \u2013 as they say \u2013 just one of those things. In haste, love, Louis. P.S. I'm supposed to come over, solo I fear, for that Bloomsday do in the Martello Tower on June 16th.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1097"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice046","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 May 16th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice046","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Royal College of Art, Astrology","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice046","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/MacNeice046_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London \u2013 International Telex: 22182\nTelephone: Langham 4468\n\nMay 16th\nDear George and Mercy, Saw Denys Hawthorne yesterday who told me he's seen you. He also told me that Sam T. was now round the bend. Is that so? This is to confirm that I'll be going to Dublin about June 12th, standing by at the silly old Martello Tower on Saturday 16th, after which I'd like to come up to you if I may, either Sat. night or Sun. morning, leaving again for London on evening of Mon 18th. Would that be all right? I've forgotten by the way when it is in July you'll be in London yourselves. We shall be there till the end of July anyhow. By the way, it'll only be myself coming to Ireland as Charles has to be going to his crammer. Mary and I are thinking of buying a house \u2013 or rather 3 cottages run together (terribly, terribly olde) in a Hertfordshire village with stocks beside\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1098"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice047","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 May 16th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice047","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dublin, Kinsale","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice047","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/MacNeice047_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"the pond. In fact we practically shall buy it unless it turns out to have dry rot, woodworm or deathwatch beetle. Charles, who is now well over 6 foot, will probably stand most of the time bashing his head on the beams. The Royal College of Art and the elite of the brewers from Guinness down here have asked me to form an exhibition for them about the Pub of the Future: they said that they and the brewers had agreed I was the obvious man for the job. Is this double-edged? The only thing we know already about the situation is that it will contain mock-up bars which, in the T.V. phrase, will be 'practical', i.e. serving real drink. Do you agree with me that Bimba's hair is horrible? I think she chopped it off to oblige her German boyfriend who wanted to model her and said her hair impeded him. I'm afraid I remain Teutonophobe. Have just finished another chapter in my astrology book. Did you ever hear that the Egyptians kept the sacred baboon in their temples because at the equinoxes he pees bang on the hour for 24 hours? Love to you both, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1099"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice048","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 May 24th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice048","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Father, Memorial, Carrickfergus","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice048","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/MacNeice048_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London \u2013 International Telex: 22182\nTelephone: Langham 4468\n\nMay 24,\nMercy Darling, Change of plan \u2013 if it suits you? I had forgotten all about Whitsun, so could I come to you before the Dublin lark, i.e. arriving on the morning of Saturday June 9th? Assuming that you both have a holiday on Whit Monday, I could then go on to Dublin on the morning of Tuesday 12th. Thank George for his letter. Glad you both enjoyed Kinsale. Have you heard it is now going to be the H.Q. of the Irish Shark Club. You must catch one not less than 75lb in weight, with rod, reel and line only, from an Irish shop, and the only eligible species are blue, porbeagle, thresher, hammerhead, grey and mako. Hedli by the way has been writing letters \u2013 have you had one? (Elizabeth and I both have) \u2013 blackguarding me about money. I wrote back, pointing out for the hundredth and first time that\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1100"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice049","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 May 24th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice049","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dublin, Whiskey","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice049","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/MacNeice049_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"the next move is hers, i.e. she must instruct her solicitors to get on to mine to agree on a sum of maintenance. Mine says I must on no account invent such a sum myself as I should then not get any tax relief on it. But she seems to have some psychological blockage about making use of her own solicitors! It is a great nuisance as, the longer she delays, the more of a lump sum I shall have to disgorge retrospectively. Elizabeth tells me there is some sort of memorial to my father being unveiled or whatever in C'Fergus on, I think, June 29th, in which case it looks as though I may have to come over again then. But we'll have that cake when we come to it, as King Alfred said. I had an odd communication the other day from Dan's mother (who's not been on speaking terms with me for a decade) enclosing two wonderful photographs of him, one a back view and the other wearing a peaked cap which was throwing a shadow that made him look like Groucho Marx. Love to you both, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1101"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice050","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Jun 25th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice050","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"New Statesman, Oxford","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice050","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/MacNeice050_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelegrams and cables: Broadcasts, Telex, London \u2013 International Telex: 22182\nTelephone: Langham 4468\n\nJune 25th\nDearest 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\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:35","Nid":"1102"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice051","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Jun 25th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice051","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Jack Dillon, The Twelfth of July","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice051","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/MacNeice051_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"magazine pays 10 times what the New Statesman does. Brigid was tolerant. By the way my Statesman piece will be appearing this week: please pay special attention to the Anna Livia dress show. Bimba went to Dublin (in a huff) on Saturday and will be there about a week staying with Lettie and no doubt drinking in MacDaid's. Before leaving she and her gang dropped sausages into the gooseberry fool where we found them in the fridge. Her weirdie boyfriend is now living on dexedrine, without which he cannot sleep. Bimba says he borrows \u00a32 a day for drink from people in Oxford. I said: 'Won't they soon stop lending?' Bimba said: 'There are a lot of people in Oxford'. I enclose a letter to my long forsaken dentist (I supplanted him with an American) enclosing a long, long overdue cheque \u2013 which is why I thought it would look better coming from a far country. Would you very much mind posting it to Belfast for me? Many thanks to George for his letter and love to you both. Louis. Mary and Charles flourish though the latter is being slightly difficult!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1103"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice052","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Jun","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice052","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Jack Dillon, B.B.C","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice052","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/MacNeice052_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"10 Regent's Park Terrace N.W.1. (Gulliver 9885)\nWednesday\nDear George, In haste. Jack Dillon and Dominic Behan (!) are thinking along 2 quite different tacks to get you an interview and a fee. In the meantime I'm jumping the gun and enclose a cheque to cover your ticket. Could you let me know if you've got it and when you'll be arriving. Also warn Mercy so that she'll be prepared to stay too on Tuesday instead of bustling through. Love and greetings, Louis. P.S. Good wishes for the Twelfth!\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1104"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice053","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Sep 26th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice053","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"B.B.C, Essex","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice053","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/MacNeice053_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House. London. W.1\nTelephone: Welbeck 4468 Telegrams: Broadcasts, London Broadcasts, Telex, London\n\nSept 26th\nDear George, Thank you very much for your letter. I take a very poor view of your K.A.R.I project. If you want a change of scene (which seems very understandable) there must be more agreeable jobs going either in England or overseas. I've mentioned your wish for a change to Jack Dillion, thinking that you might take a B.B.C. job going round collecting stories for programmes like Country Magazine. He says there are no such vacancies before the New Year but there might be then. If so, would you like to apply? We might very well swing it. They'd probably offer you a rather miserable salary but there are such things here as expenses sheets. Working for Jack is great fun and you'd obviously do it very well as the main qualification is getting on with the fellows in the public bar. You'd be based in London, so Mercy could easily get a job too if she wanted one. The words of the Big Rock Candy Mountains\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1105"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice054","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Sep 26th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice054","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Kibbutz","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice054","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/MacNeice054_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"will reach you soon, nicely typed. Will you not be over during the Xmas Season? If so, you could meet the proper BBC contacts (that's if you feel like this job) \u2013 and also come to stay with us in Essex. Thank you again very much, both of you, for the magnificent party after the Country Parson. Bertie is back in the office now and in fine fettle. His illuminated address is going to hang behind him. In haste. Have to catch a train. Bimba joins me in love to you both, yours ever, Louis. P.S. And N.B. :- In writing to me at the B.B.C., please mark the envelope 'Personal'.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1106"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice055","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Nov 12th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice055","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Samuel Beckett, Troilus and Cressida","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice055","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/MacNeice055_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"10 Regent's Park Terrace, N.W.1.\nNovember 12th\nDear Mercy and George, Thank you very much for the cheque and other communication via pressing old Hartinson. Your man Emmerson rang me up but I can't possibly come to Ireland before next year as I'm very behind hand with my astrology book, the publishers of which have become very nasty. My worst enemy among them has just gone to Israel for the rest of this month and I only hope they'll make him a slave in a Kibbutz or whatever it's called. It seems we still have of yours one pair earrings and one anthology of verse. Steps will be taken to return these. Your last 2 small hours lad, Pat Magee, is away filing in Yugoslavia and showering everyone in the George\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1107"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice056","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Nov 12th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice056","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"London","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice056","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/MacNeice056_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"with picture postcards. Mary, Bimba and Charles all flourish, though the last named, poor fellow, is today doing his exam which we don't think he really wants to pass! Bimba is at work on a very grim oil painting inspired by a street accident she saw some years ago. I saw Jackie McGowran during his one-man Beckett show (off now). Very good but a miserably thin house. Must try and see Troilus and Cressida before it ends; the set, apparently, consists of one huge sandpit. It seems that in Germany now the really highbrow astrologers calculate horoscopes with the help of eight purely hypothetical trans-Plutonian planets. Must be away now. Look after yourselves and much love. Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1108"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice057","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Nov 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice057","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Jack Dillon, New Jersey","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice057","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/MacNeice057_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelephone: Welbeck 4468 Cables: Broadcasts, London\nInland Telegrams: Broadcasts, Telex, London\n\nDear George, In haste. Thank you very much for inviting us for 25th. We shan't now be leaving London till 28th and have to arrive back on Dec. 6th? Could we stay for weekend as from Dec. 2nd? I do hope this will suit you as well. Love to you both, Yours ever, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1109"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice058","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Dec 3rd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice058","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"U.S.A, Bull Terrier","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice058","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/MacNeice058_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelephone: Welbeck 4468 Cables: Broadcasts, London\nInland Telegrams: Broadcasts, Telex, London\n\nDecember 3rd\nDear George, How are you? This is just seconding a letter from Hedli which Mercy should have had by now, asking you both to come and stay with us over Xmas. Please do this if you can possibly manage it (Jack Dillon by the way says he'd like you to go on down to him in Kent after the weekend and have some 'tough shooting'). There are a great many reasons you should come \u2013 all the usual and 2 or 3 unusual. (Dan, as you probably know, is still in the Bad lands of New Jersey, being Svengali'd by his Mamma). You'd like our new house and there is a good bed in Hedli's music room. Don't bother about money;\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1110"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice059","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Dec 3rd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice059","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Christmas","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice059","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/MacNeice059_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"it's bound to be cheaper than the Elbow Room. And H and I are going to the States in February so you mightn't see us for many an era. Already accepted for Xmas dinner: Esm\u00e9 Percy (also off to the States), Laurence Gilliam, Ernst Stahl (and his wife if she's back from Yugoslavia where she's lecturing on the Gold Coast to the Yugos) and possibly David Thomson. And Bimba of course and Phoebe who's our Bull Terrier puppy (v. simpatica but definitely temperamental). Allan McClelland would also be around. So please be noble and come. Love to you both, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1111"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice060","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Dec","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice060","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Christmas","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice060","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/MacNeice060_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1112"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice061","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Dec","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice061","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Christmas","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice061","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/MacNeice061_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"Mercy darling, Thank you v. much for the beautiful handkerchief. I enclose a cheque made out to Chas. Lavery for any bottles you might fancy for this double household do (couldn't remember the brother's Christian name but hope this will serve). H. had an idea that she might come back, leaving Bimba with you, middle of next week and that I might then replace her. I would like this but, if we did it I think Bimba and I ought to be P.G.\u2019s. It would suit me best to cross Thursday night thought I could make it Wednesday night. Anyhow a message could be left for me at Langham 4411 Wednesday morning. LOVE AND HAPPY XMAS TO ALL. Louis.\n\n[Postcard text] NATIONAL GALLERY BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Card No. 1168 The Adoration of the Kings (3547) Printed in Great Britain for the Trustees by Henry Stone and Son (Printers) L.t.d., Banbury\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1113"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice062","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Dec 31st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice062","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Wallabies, Twickenham","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice062","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/MacNeice062_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"Isle of Wight but as from No. 2\nDec. 31st\nDear George, Firstly, many thanks to Mercy and yourself for the Xmas card. 2ndly, I'm crossing to Dublin on July 18th to cover the Wallabies match for the Observer. Is there any chance of you being there for it? (I don't yet know where I'll be staying but could adjust that accordingly). 3rdly re the English match at Twickenham, for which I've not yet got any tickets, is there any chance of your procuring any for me your end? (I could do with at least 4 of them!) We spent Xmas at home on whiskey and an iron lung of Guinness and moved to our little grey house in colt'sfoot last Saturday; are returning this Friday. Tonight we go to a New Year's Eve party at J.B. Priestly's. I gather you met Jack Dillon in\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1114"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice063","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1962 Dec 31st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice063","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast, German","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice063","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/MacNeice063_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"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.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1115"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice064","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Feb 14th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice064","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Botanic Avenue","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice064","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/MacNeice064_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1 Telegrams: Broadcasts London Telex \u2013 Cables: Broadcasts: London W.1 \u2013 Telex: 22182 Telephone: Langham 4468\n\nFeb 16th\nDearest Mercy, In haste. I was very sorry indeed to hear about George from James Boyce. I do hope he is now steadily on the way up again. Please let me know if there's anything he\u2019d like. Someone told me you were staying with Henry L.R. but I take it you'll be looking in at Botanic Avenue, so I presume you'll get this. By the way, we've now moved to the country (still an awful shambles) and my address is: 39 Stocks Road, Aldbury, nr. Tring, Herts. Still surrounded by snow! Tell George to get better soon. Much love to you both, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1116"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice065","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Feb 14th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice065","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Books","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice065","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/MacNeice065_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1 Telegrams: Broadcasts London Telex \u2013 Cables: Broadcasts: London W.1 \u2013 Telex: 22182 Telephone: Langham 4468\n\nFeb 14th\nDear George, Only just taken in the date and so realised it is your birthday. Many happy returns - \u03a7\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03bb\u03ac as we say in modern Greece. I was very sorry indeed to hear from James Boyce that you'd been stricken. Please get well quickly. Let me know if there are any books or anything you'd like. This is in great haste. I've got to see a man about some stars \u2013 he should arrive in the office any moment. He has! So will write again. In the meantime look after yourself. Greetings and love, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1117"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice066","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Feb 27th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice066","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Edinburgh","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice066","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/MacNeice066_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1 Telegrams: Broadcasts London Telex \u2013 Cables: Broadcasts: London W.1 \u2013 Telex: 22182 Telephone: Langham 4468\n\nFeb 27th\nDearest Mercy, Our letters obviously crossed. Thank you very much for yours which was much more informative \u2013 and therefore more reassuring \u2013 than James Boyce's account. I sent your letter to Bimba but unfortunately it's just been returned by the Post Office, so this time I'm sending it to the Slade. You must have had the hell of a time but I do hope George is now well round the corner to recovery. Laurence Gilliam had something of the same trouble round about November last and was in for about 3 months, I think, but is now reported to be convalescing \u2013 and enjoying himself somewhere unknown. His first action on being let out was to go to the Savile Club and have a good blow out! Could you tell George that I was in Edinburgh this last weekend and saw the Scotland Ireland match. An unjust result, as all the Scots\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1118"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice067","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Feb 27th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice067","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"B.B.C, Cambridge","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice067","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/MacNeice067_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"with me admitted. Sam Wells was around and many others of the quarrelsome Scots intellectuals. Much whisky was drunk. I returned on the Sunday and left them to their closed bars and hangovers. Am too busy at the moment as I'm behindhand with the astrology book; have hardly started on my B.B.C. work and tomorrow go to Cambridge to give the first of my series of what they call Clark Lectures. And there are other oddments screaming to be done. Is George well enough to read? I don't mean letters but books. If so, I could gather some reading matter for him. John Gibson is just about to go over, so may be getting in touch with you. Must stop now. Much love to you both, Louis. P.S. Laurence was allowed quarter bottles of Champagne. Do the City Hospital also allow that?\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1119"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice068","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Mar 22nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice068","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Twickenham, Cricket","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice068","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/MacNeice068_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1 Telegrams: Broadcasts London Telex \u2013 Cables: Broadcasts: London W.1 \u2013 Telex: 22182 Telephone: Langham 4468\nAs from:- 39 Stocks Road, Aldbury nr. Tring, Herts. (Tel:- Aldbury Common 208)\n\nDear George, By an odd coincidence your letter arrived in the office (which I've not been frequenting much lately just as I was about to write to you. I'm delighted to hear that you're so much better (someone had already reported this to me a couple of days ago). No I didn't go to Twickenham for England v. Scotland but also watched it on the telly and agree it revived one's faith in the Code. Did I tell you I saw the (disappointing) Irish match at Murrayfield? However the disappointment was somehow washed away in the streams of Glenlivet, Glen Grant and all those other Glens. Sam Wells was about but this time it was Hector MacIves who hit Tom Scott. What about, I don't know. Our new house, which is really a trinity of cottages, is still for the most part a shambles and Mary is invisible for faint. We had a staircase removed, a door knocked through a wall and other such tasks. The length of a cricket pitch away there is an\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1120"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice069","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Mar 22nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice069","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"W.R. Rodgers, Dublin","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice069","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/MacNeice069_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"excellent pub called The Greyhound run by an Irishman called Jack Dunne who has a Scottish wife called Molly. Also usually present is a professional mushroom grower called Mac who is what is known as a character; he used to live in the same house as Bertie Rodgers in Wapping \u2013 'Many's the time,' he says, 'I used to threaten to put him in the river \u2013 it was only a joke of course.' Last time I was in Cambridge for the 3rd of my 6 Clark Lectures, I met Harden with a Dominican friend. She should be over in Ireland by now. I said to one of the Cambridge dons that I was frightened because they all knew so much. 'Oh you needn't be,' he said, 'We rather like people coming in from outside with their woodnotes wild.' I haven't seen Bimba for some weeks though there is plenty of evidence in Aldbury as she left a mass of brushes, paint and old clothes there. Hedli was over here but I didn't see her; I gather she stayed with Bertie in the country. Bertie by the way is talking of going to live in Cambridge so that he'll have people to talk to (?=!) I'm supposed to go to Dublin towards the end of May so might come via the North and see you. But I fear I couldn't make Sam's opening in April (too many deadlines). Dennys H should be over soon though. Love to you both, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1121"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice070","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Apr 2nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice070","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Puppies","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice070","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/MacNeice070_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelephone: Langham 4468 Telegrams and Cables: Broadcasts, London, Telex\n\nApril 2nd\nDear George and Mercy, Have been meaning to write before but things have been hectic since I got back, what with Phoebe having dead puppies (all no good) and the Gold Coast Film Unit turning up etc. etc. This is however to thank you both again, though belatedly, for all your wonderful hospitality to Jackie and myself. (Jackie also feels much gratitude and will be returning the stole). Am glad to hear from Goldilocks and yourselves that the play has settled down and is running all right. I was talking to G. on the telephone this morning and told him a) that I had done a lot of rewriting and b) that there is an idea \u2013 via Jackie \u2013 that thew whole company might take the show over to Liverpool (the Pigalle Theatre \u2013 v. new, v. good I'm told) on April 16th. The latter remains to be confirmed. Re the former, if he\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1122"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice071","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Apr 2nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice071","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Actors","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice071","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/MacNeice071_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"has doubts about the metamorphosis of Norton (into a more intelligent chap who's been an enemy agent all along), please back me up in maintaining that this is a) more plausible (from the sudden off stage version) b) more true to life (as you know, everyone's security services have enemy agents planted in them), c) more overall dramatic, d) better evidence of Halter\u2019s ruthlessness and efficiency. Has anyone taken any photos of the Group Actors on the set? If so, i'd like to have some. Could you please also, for the archives, send me a programme (I left mine behind)? And , by the way, is the lighting any better now? If Liverpool comes off, I imagine just right, if it's festive and G. will play, to go there ahead to work out the adjusting of the set; I gather it's a much bigger show with lots of modern amenities. And if they are to do my new version (split into 2 scenes) of Act I, it would be nice, for the boat comng into port, to have one of\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1123"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice072","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Apr 2nd","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice072","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Sam Thompson","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice072","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/MacNeice072_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelephone: Langham 4468\nTelegrams and Cables: Broadcasts, London, Telex\n\nthose stunt effects and what have you sliding fast. Also no doubt the ould fan could be made more of there? Jackie and I (by choice this time \u2013 to save our money) sat up all night on board and got a refund on the Guinness\u2019s we hadn't drunk. Hedli said I and J were both a terrible colour \u2013 which I thought was unfair as we were opposite colours. Will you tell Sam Thompson that I've told Laurence Gillian about the possible Shipyard Strike feature and that L.G. (who knows of him already) thinks this a v. good idea. Must stop [INK BLOT] finished typing. Hedli's coming to the [INK BLOT] \u2013 God's in his Etc.- Love to you both and again many many thanks. Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1124"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice073","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 May 15th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice073","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dublin, Belfast, Cambridge","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice073","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/MacNeice073_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"39 Stocks Road , Aldbury, nr. Tring, Herts\nMay 15th (Dan's birthday!)\n\nDearest Mercy, Thank you very much for the cheque. It was nice also to hear George's voice almost immediately afterwards. Since talking to him it's occurred to me, that while I can't spare a week during the next few weeks to cover the Father of All Behans in Dublin, I might persuade Laurence and Co. to authorise me to visit Belfast for a weekend to pick George's brains (re Burma) in connection with another programme of mine N.B. This would mean I'd be allowed some expenses). Anyhow, we'll see. If it coincided with old Sam evangelising, so much the better. Have finished my Cambridge chore. Bimba came up for the last lecture and stayed at Harden's place. Harden again had her Dominican friend in tow; a kind don gave us all midnight whiskies. Mary was v. ill for 5 or 6 days \u2013 temperature of 104 and that \u2013 so I was keeping house, cooking etc. And above all, preparing the dog's food: he eats like \n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1125"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice074","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 May 15th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice074","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Poems, London","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice074","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/MacNeice074_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"a young mammoth. And is clueless in other ways but v. charming. The astrology publishers are after me again: I wish the stereo had never been invented. Hedli send me cryptic letters (very short but boding). I would be interested to see Tara. Have just corrected the page proofs of my new book of poems. I must say, now that I look at it, that cumulatively they look a bit grim. Tell George to enjoy himself \u2013 while watching his step. Must go now (I'm staying the night in London) on the chance of meeting Bimba, in which case I'll give her a meal (she doesn't seem to give herself much). Love to you both, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1126"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice075","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Jun 17th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice075","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ireland, Kennedy, J.F.","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice075","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/MacNeice075_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"39 Stocks Road, Aldbury, nr. Tring. Herts.\nJune 17th\nDear George and Mercy, I'm coming over to Ireland to write a piece about the Kennedy visit for the Statesman. I thought I might visit you (if that's all right?) before going South. Could I possibly come on June 13th for two nights? That I should like dearly, Am terribly behindhand with everything today so in haste. Love to you both, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1127"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice076","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Aug 6th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice076","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Bundoran","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice076","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/MacNeice076_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"The British Broadcasting Corporation\nBroadcasting House, London, W.1\nTelegrams: Broadcasts, London, Telex * Cables: Broadcasts London. W1 * Telex: 22182\nTelephone: Langham 4468\n\n1963\nAugust 6th\nDear George, in haste. Just leaving for Yorkshire to record nasty noises in caves (for my next radio play). It looks now as if I shall be coming over with Charles about 23rd August and \u2013 if we can hire a car conveniently and not too expensively in Belfast \u2013 we would come via the North, possibly spending the first night with P. Fallon (who pressed this on me in Dublin) and then on to you (if that's convenient?), when we really talk the road, I've got it all pretty well mapped out except for our first night over the Border \u2013 Bundoran way. Somebody told me James Boyce knows all the reasonable pubs to stay at in that direction. If this is true, I'd be very grateful for any tips about such. Much love to you both, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1128"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice077","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Aug 6th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice077","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Love","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice077","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/MacNeice077_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"...any tips about such. Much love to you both, Louis.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1129"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice078","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Aug 26th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice078","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"London","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice078","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/MacNeice078_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"Stocks Road, Aldbury, nr. Tring, Herts.\n\nAugust 26th 1963\nDear George and Mercy, Just to let you know that the Combined op. for Charles and me is unfortunately off, as I have been ill (bronchitis etc.) for the last ten days and the doctor is still forbidding me even to go to London. I may still possibly come over on my own for a little in September but that is in the lap of the gods...Nothing much to report here, except that the dog has now eaten up nearly all of Mary's shoes \u2013\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1130"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice079","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Aug 26th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice079","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Sam Thompson","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice079","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/MacNeice079_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"she had more shoes than any woman I've ever met. As for the garden, he's turned it into a boneyard. My new book is coming out on Sept. 13th: I\u2019ll send you a copy. The contents on the whole are prerry sombre but I couldn't help that. We saw Sara Thompson, who seemed sprightly. Weather here has been stinking. One might as well be in bed \u2013 which indeed I have been mostly. I hope you both flourish. Sorry not to be seeing you at this moment. Love, Louis. P.S. Had a letter from Bimba who'd had a great time at Puck Fair in Killorglin.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1131"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice080","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Sep 5th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice080","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Pnuemonia","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice080","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/MacNeice080_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"183 Sutherland Avenue London W.9\nSeptember 5th 1963\nDearest Mercy and George, Since I heard this dreadful news about Louis I have been thinking a lot about you both; so I am writing now, not so much to cheer you up \u2013 small hope of that \u2013 but to let you know that you are not forgotten. I have been meaning to write for a very long time: I'm only sorry that such an occasion should have stimulated my resolve. I don't know whether you have heard what happened? In case you haven't, it was thus: apparently he had been walking round for a fortnight with a bad cold which turned into pneumonia, and his sister from Hammersmith got wind of it and came and collected him and took him off to the hospital in East London over which her husband Nicholson presides, and it seemed for a while as though he had a chance...but I suppose it had been left too late and in the end his heart gave out. I am feeling upset and saddened beyond words, not that I saw him very frequently, because I work at the other end of London, but whenever I did it was always very rewarding, and I never realised how much I would miss him. Do you remember that line in one of his early poems 'But I will escape, with my dog, on the far side of the fair'? I have the feeling that, just so, he has escaped on the far side of the fair. I have a lot of news, some of which you may have heard. You have probably heard that Trix and I are divorced and I have married again \u2013 her name is Jeanne pronounced Jean, from Dublin. We live only half a mile from Trix and the children and see them frequently, and all are good friends, I'm thankful to say. We haven't been in Belfast for over three years \u2013 in fact Jeanne and I have not been there ever together. When we do we will of course come and see you, giving you warning if possible. A couple of Christmases ago Louis was deeply touched at your having sent him a Christmas drink. I'm going to the funeral which is on Saturday morning, but instead of flowers I'm sending you herewith a little drink in his honour. Love to you both \u2013 and give Henry Robinson my love too \u2013 from Maurice\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1132"}},{"node":{"title":"MacNeice081","Collections":"Letters to George and Mercy McCann","Contributor":"MacNeice Estate","Coverage":"1963 Oct 14th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"MacNeice081","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Distinguished","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/macneice081","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/MacNeice081_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"PRIME MINISTER NORTHERN IRELAND STORMONT CASTLE, BELFAST, 4. 14th October, 1963.\n\nDear George, The Prime Minister has asked me to thank you for your letter of the 12th October about the Memorial Service for Louis MacNeice, the distinguished Ulster-born poet and writer who died on the 3rd September. He is grateful to you for letting him know the position and has arranged for Sir Francis Evans, G.B.E., K.C.M.G., D.L., to represent the Government of Northern Ireland at the Service on the 17th October in Langham Place Church, London. With regards, Yours sincerely, Cecil J. Bateman\n\nCaptain G. G. MacCann, 23 Botanic Avenue, BELFAST, 7.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Louis MacNeice","Updated date":"Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 14:37","Nid":"1133"}}]}