archive (Telegrams)
Post Office Telegram: 20th August 1942
Post Office Telegram: 12th February 1946
Post Office Telegram: 12th February 1946
Transcript: Portadown Phonograms 6 Jul 1943
3/50 m Prefix. 37
Post Office Telegram
Time handed in: 11:10
Office of Origin and Service Instructions: North London
Mrs McCann Vinecash Portadown N-Ireland =
Daughter born yesterday both well suggest you postpone visit till August love = Louis MacNeice +
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Linen Hall Library, "MacNeic
Transcript: Portadown Phonograms 6 Jul 1943
3/50 m Prefix. 37
Post Office Telegram
Time handed in: 11:10
Office of Origin and Service Instructions: North London
Mrs McCann Vinecash Portadown N-Ireland =
Daughter born yesterday both well suggest you postpone visit till August love = Louis MacNeice +
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Post Office Telegram: 12th February 1946
Post Office Telegram: 12th February 1946
Post Office Telegram: 12th February 1946
Transcript: Post Office Telegram
No. F33 Office Stamp
Time handed in. 1/11
Office of Origin and Service Instructions. Oxford St A
MacCann Vinecash Portadown =
Dined with and slept George in fine fettle much love = MacNeices
++Dined with and slet** Le McCain
All three of these telegrams were sent to George Galway MacCann ARCA ARUA (14th
Transcript: Post Office Telegram
No. F33 Office Stamp
Time handed in. 1/11
Office of Origin and Service Instructions. Oxford St A
MacCann Vinecash Portadown =
Dined with and slept George in fine fettle much love = MacNeices
++Dined with and slet** Le McCain
All three of these telegrams were sent to George Galway MacCann ARCA ARUA (14th February 1909 – 4th November 1967) and his wife Mercy MaCann (formerly Hunter) HRUA PPRUA ARCA MBE (22nd January 1910 – 20th July 1989)
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Post Office Telegram: 7th February 1962
Post Office Telegram: 12th February 1946
Post Office Telegram: 7th February 1962
Transcript: Post Office Telegram
Langham 4468 Charges to pay 4/18
Prefix. Time handed in. Office of Origin and Service Instructions. Words.
F158 3.58 OXFORD ST A 22
MACCANN 23 BOTANIC AVENUE BELFAST = Could keep you one ground ticket also put you up please telephone Gulliver 9885 Thursday morning = Louis +
[STAMP] BELFAST 7FE 62
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Transcript: Post Office Telegram
Langham 4468 Charges to pay 4/18
Prefix. Time handed in. Office of Origin and Service Instructions. Words.
F158 3.58 OXFORD ST A 22
MACCANN 23 BOTANIC AVENUE BELFAST = Could keep you one ground ticket also put you up please telephone Gulliver 9885 Thursday morning = Louis +
[STAMP] BELFAST 7FE 62
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Archive (visual post cards)
Delos Lions Post Card: 17th December 1951
Delos Lions Post Card: 17th December 1951
Delos Lions Post Card: 17th December 1951
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London Post Card: 17th December 1951
Delos Lions Post Card: 17th December 1951
Delos Lions Post Card: 17th December 1951
Transcript:
London W.1. 17 DEC 1951
With all good Xmas wishes and love from Hedli and Louis.
May be seeing you in January.
L.
17th Dec. 1951
Mr & Mrs George MacCann 11B Botanic Avenue Belfast N. Ireland
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Transcript:
London W.1. 17 DEC 1951
With all good Xmas wishes and love from Hedli and Louis.
May be seeing you in January.
L.
17th Dec. 1951
Mr & Mrs George MacCann 11B Botanic Avenue Belfast N. Ireland
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Suspected Christmas Card: December 1962
Delos Lions Post Card: 17th December 1951
Suspected Christmas Card: December 1962
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Archive (MacNeice's cough and its aftermath)
Handwritten Letter (Part One): 26th August 1963
Handwritten Letter (Part One): 26th August 1963
Handwritten Letter (Part One): 26th August 1963
Transcript:
Stocks Road, Aldbury, nr. Tring, Herts.
August 26th 1963
Dear 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
Transcript:
Stocks Road, Aldbury, nr. Tring, Herts.
August 26th 1963
Dear 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 –
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Handwritten Letter (Part Two): 26th August 1963
Handwritten Letter (Part One): 26th August 1963
Handwritten Letter (Part One): 26th August 1963
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’ll 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 wel
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’ll 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 – 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.
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The Captain’s Letter: 14th October 1963
Handwritten Letter (Part One): 26th August 1963
The Captain’s Letter: 14th October 1963
Transcript:
PRIME MINISTER NORTHERN IRELAND STORMONT CASTLE, BELFAST, 4. 14th October, 1963.
Dear 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 let
Transcript:
PRIME MINISTER NORTHERN IRELAND STORMONT CASTLE, BELFAST, 4. 14th October, 1963.
Dear 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
Captain G. G. MacCann, 23 Botanic Avenue, BELFAST 7
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Archive (MacNeice's death)
Letter Confirming MacNeice's Death: 5th September 1963
Transcript:
183 Sutherland Avenue London W.9, September 5th 1963
Dearest 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 – small hope of that – 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 – 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 – 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 – and give Henry Robinson my love too –
from
Maurice
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