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Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 3 December 1925
Abstract MacGreevy thanks George for an invitation to an Irish Literary Society; recounts WB's visit to Hester Travers-Smith's at home; feels his style of art criticism will not bring him success; mentions two Diaghilev ballet performances; complains about attitudes to Ireland at the Irish Literary Society dinner; encloses a copy of an early draft of 'Seventh Gift of the Holy Ghost'.
Keywords Social Life, Domestic Life, Career and Finanaces
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 30 December 1925
Abstract Mention of Anne Yeats' pneumonia; work at The Nation and The Connoisseur; the difference between living in London, Dublin, and Paris, his trip to Milan and Paris where he saw William McCausland Stewart and the Duncans; how he discovered Valery's Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci; 50th production of the Ballet Ruses; Constant Lambert; the Abbey Theatre's 21st anniversary celebration, commenting on the absence of a play by Robinson; includes an early draft of "Nocturne of the Self-Evident Presence."
Keywords Social Life, Domestic Life, Career and Finances, Art
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 31 December 1925
Abstract Anne's rencent illness; the Yeatses plan to be in London for the reading of the will of George's great aunt; WB's recent illness and its effect on his writing; opinion of The Connoisseur; has given MacGreevy's address to Rummel;opinion of the Duncans; Olivia Shakespear; Robinson's recent short story.
Keywords Domestic Life, Politics and Government, Literature, Irish Culture
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 7 January [1926]
Abstract MacGreevy notes the death of Yeats's great-aunt, Ellen Chapman; the reoccurrence of neck pain from a war wound; an evening with Olivia Shakespear; his opinion on a short story by Robinson; notes that Robinson declined to comment on an early draft of 'Seventh Gift of the Holy Ghost' which has its roots in a trip the two men took in 1924 to Spain; responds to Yeats's criticism of 'Nocturne of the Self-Evident Presence'; Osbert Sitwell's writing; current state of Irish intellectual affairs and WB's political career.
Keywords Domestic Life, Travel, Literature, Career and Finances
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 24 February 1926
Abstract MacGreevy implores Yeats to write; feels isolated without the social circle he enjoyed in Dublin; writes of films and concerts he has been to and of a general feeling of ennui; comments on the Abbey Theatre riots at The Plough and the Stars; mentions TS Eliot and Vincent Reade; met Yeats's step-father; describes an evening with Robinson and Travers Smith, using the same language as in his poem The Other Dublin; had his horoscope done and would like Yeats's opinion of it.
Keywords Domestic Life, Music, Social Life
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 9 March 1926
Abstract Yeats reacts crossly when MacGreevy chides her for not writing; claims that she has'"nothing to tell, or confess, or confide, or gossip;' doubts MacGreevy protests about his boredom at living at Cheyne Gardens.
Keywords Social Life
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 15 March 1926
Abstract Apologises for a letter sent to MacGreevy in error; will not travel to London as planned in April; writes of summer plans at Ballylee; read a play she wrote to WB who 'thought there was a play in it' but condemned the final scene; mentions Elspeth de Courcy Wheeler and Walter Rummel; recounts production of Bernard Shaw's 'Heartbreak House' by The Dublin Drama League; describes WB Yeats's disappointment at Ireland's defeat by Wales in football.
Keywords Career and Finances, Literature, Politics and Government
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 11 April 1926
Abstract Comments on WB Yeats's reaction to 'Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill'; sent it and 'Nocturne of the Self-Evident Presence' to The Dial; reports of his Easter holiday in Paris with Billy Stewart; mentions Irish and French Architecture, the Abbey Theatre government subsidy, and a theatre production by Theodore Komisarjevsky; relates the birth of his sister Norah's second child, Margaret, and that he does not plan on marrying; mentions in a postscript that he has seen 'a good deal' of Jack Yeats who is in London for an exhibition of his paintings.
Keywords Domestic Life, Architecture, Literature
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 13 April [1926]
Abstract In response to MacGreevy's last letter Yeats tells him only to type letters only if he wants to; she types because her handwriting is 'vile'; Anne's measles has made it stressful for Yeats to deal with houseguest Sybil Childers, sister of Erskine Childers and fellow members of the Order of the Golden Dawn; Childers returned from India six months ago but has not felt welcomed by many because of her brother.
Keywords Domestic Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 14 April 1926
Abstract MacGreevy asks after the health of Michael and Anne Yeats; mentions he has sent a poem to Russell for whom he has little regard, especially in his actions with Susan; mentions Jack Yeat's success on the London at scene and a recent article by T.S. Eliot; encloses Valery's Eupalinos.
Keywords Art, Domestic Life, Literature
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 24 April 1926
Abstract MacGreevy has sent Yeats Valery's Eupalinos; she plans on reading it at Ballylee where she is looking forward to having more leisure time; the play she wrote 'finished her' but she has plans to write another; is reviewing a book by TS Eliot's mother, Charlotte; relates details of a dinner with the Kevin O'Higginses and the O'Neills the previous evening.
Keywords Domestic Life, Literature, Social Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 27 April 1926
Abstract A response to Yeats's letter of 24 April; she told AE that MacGreevy was the author of 'Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill'; MacGreevy encloses copies of the letter AE wrote when he found that MacGreevy authored the poem, and his response.
Keywords Career and Finances
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 20 May 1926
Abstract Account of a performance of Der Ring des Nibelungen at Covent Garden; a conversation with O'Casey; labor strikes in London. WB Yeats's Noh plays in Dublin; suggests that the Free State should endow an opera company; comments on Robinson and Curran's exchange in the Irish Statesman on 'Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill; MacGreevy's travel plans; news of Betty Lunn.
Keywords Opera, Politics and Government, Irish Culture, Domestic Life, Career and Finances, Social Life, Catholicism
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 10 June 1926
Abstract MacGreevy's views on Tarbert; asks Yeats's opinion about translating Valery's Introduction de la Methode de Leonard de Vinci; work for the Nation; views on the Irish Stateman; views on WB Yeats, Catholic and Irish Ireland; mentions Robinson and O'Faolain; is editing the May issue of The Connoisseur.
Keywords Irish Culture, Catholicism, Travel, Career and Finances, Opera, Dance
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 1 July 1926
Abstract Responds to items in MacGreevy's last two letters, including her response to Wagner Ring Cycle, his bumping into first Sean O'Casey, then Herbert Reade in London, and his suggestion that Theodore Komisarjevsky direct a play for the Abbey; mentions Lennox Robinson and her tour of the Shannon electricity scheme; cautions that MacGreevy's Valery translation might be difficult to publish; praises Sean O'Faolain's play about the civil war although feels the Abbey won't accept it; advises MacGreevy to publish a book of poetry and hopes to see him soon in London; closes with information on WB's career as a legislator and the current political climate.
Keywords Irish Culture, Politics and Government, Literature, Career and Finances
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 3 July 1926
Abstract MacGreevy does not believe that being in London has helped his writing; Eliot as an editor; reflects on his own poetry since leaving Dublin; not engaged by his critical writing; extended comment on Lennox Robinson; offers to send a copy of Mrs. Dalloway and asks Yeats's opinion of Valery's Eupalinos; would like to he would try to publish a translation of Valery's essay on Leonardo; news of Catherine Carswell, Herbert Reade
Keywords Domestic Life, Career and Finances, Travel, Politics and Government, Irish Culture, Literature
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 26 July 1926
Abstract Yeats gives her opinion of the draft of MacGreevy's poem, probably Crón Tráth na nDéithe; ruminates on the Anglo-Irish, surmising that the "truth was only to be discovered in an uncivilized country by the highly civilized and slightly mad foreigner"; mentions that Robinson is to get a salary increase; eye trouble has kept her from reading; WB also having eye trouble; they go nowhere in the evenings.
Keywords Irish Culture, Literature, Politics and Government, Domestic Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 16 August 1926
Abstract MacGreevy writes from Bruges where he is lecturing as a tour guide for Lunn's Travel Agency; describes Bruges, and Antwerp; recounts an incident motoring with two English travelers; thanks George for her suggestions about a poem (probably "Crón Tráth na nDèithe"); mentions Bryan Cooper, the Duncans, and Olivia Shakespear, all of whom he met in Paris; a poem accepted by Eliot for The Criterion; opinion of Robinson's new play The Big House.
Keywords Travel, Politics and government, Irish Culture, Literature
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 28 August 1926
Abstract MacGreevy encloses early draft of 'Homage to Hieronymus Bosch'; Lennox has told MacGreevy that a recent play was not written by George; enjoys London in August; is reconciled to Thomism after learning that St. Thomas Acquinas 's friends called him 'Fat Tom' as George called MacGreevy.
Keywords Social Life, Literature
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 19 September 1926
Abstract Yeats plans to meet MacGreevy and her mother while visiting London; details and associated gossip of the success of opening of Lennox Robinson's The Big House at The Abbey Theatre; details of a play called Mr. Murphy's Ireland mistakenly attributed to Yeats and her opinion of it.
Keywords Domestic Life, Travel, Literature
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 22 September 1926
Abstract MacGreevy free to meet Yeats while she is in in London; pleased that Robinson's 'The Big House' has made a profit; hurt that Robinson did not visit him when he was recently in London; MacGreevy would like to be introduced to Dulac when Yeats is in London since Lambert has asked to have MacGreevy write a libretto and hopes Dulac will do the décor; has other ideas for a ballet by Antheil and three 'Nohish' plays; hopes to earn some income from translation to travel to the Mediterranean in December.
Keywords Travel, Literature, Domestic Life, Career and Finances, Dance
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 26 September 1926
Abstract MacGreevy is pleased to have learned that Robinson was not recently in London; relates that that Dolly will be upset because of the financial implications at not staing at Robinson's cottage when visiting Dublin for her exhibition.
Keywords Social Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 19 October 1926
Abstract MacGreevy begins by thanking George Yeats for her hospitality during her recent visit to London; feels WB should take James McNeill's place as High Commissioner of the Irish Free State; he thinks George would like London more if she lived there; mentions Frank Fay, his sister Delia, and Frank O'Connor.
Keywords Domestic Life, Irish Culture, Politics and Government
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 9 November 1926
Abstract Asks MacGreevy to visit WB during WB's trip to London; mentions formation of a London Committee for which MacGreevy may be asked to be the Honorable Secretary; Michael's health; her real pleasure in meeting Dolly; mentions Dorothy Pound, Eva Ducat, and Jelly d'Aranyi, other women whose company she enjoys; first night of TheImportance of Being Earnest; mentions Lennox Robinson, Alan Duncan, and Shelah Richards in relation to an after performance party; asks aboutMacGreevy's recent activities.
Keywords Domestic Life, Social Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 28 November 1926
Abstract No finished poems to send, although he has been working on several; is making plans to move to Paris; feels that Dolly 'was very taken' with George; Dolly's illness; gossipy letter mentioning Roger Fry, Mrs. Boris Anrep, Mrs. Adeny, Mrs. Shakespear (whom he accompanied to the ballet); hoped to see TS Eliot; his reviews for The Criterion (including an attack by Gordon Craig in response to his review of Margaret Morris's book); mentions Dulac, Constant Lambert, Janet Cunningham.
Keywords Career and Finances, Domestic Life, Social Life
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 8 December 1926
Abstract Yeats comments on two recent poems by MacGreevy; she encourages him to write a play for the Abbey; comments on current plays and playwrights; feels that the Cuala Press would not be the appropriate publisher for MacGreevy's translation of Valéry; news about family and Dublin society
Keywords Career and Finances, Domestic Life, Literature
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 30 December 1926
Abstract Apologizes for mentioning Yeats to her mother; mentions Dolly trip to Dublin in relation to sets she is designing for the Abbey's production of Emperor Jones; discusses his difficulties with his mother when he mentions his non-Catholic friends; visit to Stephen McKenna; interrupted by an auditor who comes to determine his taxes; writes again about moving to France; would like to write a short play entitled The Woman Taken in Adultery by Giorgione, after that, a a three-act play about St. John Chrysostom; pleasedwith his work on Lambert's Vertumnus and Pomona; hopes that Lambert will finish the ballet and honour hisfinancial arrangements; ends with an anecdote about Pádraic Pearse and WB as related by Stephen McKenna.
Keywords Domestic Life, Career and Finances
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 11 January 1927
Abstract MacGreevy finds that he cannot afford to travel to Dublin and will miss the Abbey Theatre's production of Emperor Jones. Dolly has returned to London from working on the production in Dublin where she had "a grand time." MacGreevy relates and derides Hester's opinions of the opera and the singers Caruso and Segurola. MacGreevy sends a copy of a Brahms trio and criticizes the performances of Cortot. Yeats's mother gave him a present of a record at Christmas. All of MacGreevy's money is being sent home or spent on the gramophone. He is having trouble saving. In the last year he has written few poems but Leonard Woolf and William McCausland Stewart are helping him find work, but he fears he will spend more money traveling in the spring. MacGreevy recently had dinner with Mrs. Shakespear and had an enjoyable time. He is not getting any work done on a play, but is well liked at his office. Yeats's mother is going to visit him in February. In postscript, MacGreevy asks about WB's work on translating Sophocles. He doesn't like the idea and thinks WB should work on Aeschylus instead. Asks if WB can introduce him to someone at Benus in view of the work MacGreevy wants to do translating Paul Valery.
Keywords Social Life, Domestic Life, Music, Literature
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 15 January 1927
Abstract George Yeats thanks Thomas MacGreevy for a Brahms Trio. She reports on the health of W. B. Yeats, and relays his frustrations about not being able to see a production of Emperor Jones. She tells MacGreevy that after a party at Oliver Gogarty's home, Yeats's health was so poor that a Dr. Abrahamson had to examine him. She ends by noting that a production of Plough the Stars is beginning in the next week.
Keywords Domestic Life, Social Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 20 January 1927
Abstract MacGreevy writes that he is sorry that WB is unwell and that Dolly has written cheerfully of the 'thin' time she's had. He asks for WB help in securing Trinity's position at the Ecole Normale if it is not too much trouble. He is about to travel to Paris to see the head of the Normale and Valery as well.
Keywords Domestic Life, Career and Finances
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 29 January 1927
Abstract George Yeats tells MacGreevy that she misses Dolly Robinson; Walter Rummel, his wife, and Lady Augusta Gregory (who enjoyed Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones) have been visiting; though feeling better, WB Yeats is sick and unable to leave the house.
Keywords Domestic Life, Social Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 1 February 1927
Abstract MacGreevy again offers his sympathies for WB's health, writing about his own troubles with influenza. MacGreevy's teaching job in Paris will only be for a year so that will not interfere with him taking over Lucius O'Callaghan's place [at the National Gallery??].
Keywords Domestic Life, Career and Finances
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 9 February 1927
Abstract MacGreevy sends his new address at the Ecole Normale. He also encloses his scenario of Pomone for amusement. He inquires after WB's health mentions his plans to have lunch with Mrs. Reade and dinner with Nelly Tucker.
Keywords Domestic Life, Career and Finances, Social Life
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 11 February 1927
Abstract George Yeats says that WB Yeats is going to write to Alec Martin about an N.G. job that Bodkin wants; wants to tell Dolly she has received money to put on Ceasar; Lady Gregory is visiting and is ill.
Keywords Domestic Life, Career and Finances
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 17 February 1927
Abstract MacGreevy has been getting settled in in Paris 'coping with students.' He thinks he could get six notes of recommendation for the position at the National Gallery, but without them his chances would be pretty slight. He doubts that the 'Free State Government' has requested Thomas Bodkin for the job. His job in Paris is year to year and he will have to send a formal application once the Gallery job is posted. Reginald Grundy has made him a Paris correspondent for The Connoisseur. Grundy has recently been in America and suggests MacGreevy try some 'American ways' with the Gallery and will reproduce some pictures in The Connoisseur. MacGreevy closes by inquiring after the health of Lady Gregory and WB.
Keywords Irish Culture, Career and Finances, Domestic Life
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy 27 February 1927
Abstract George Yeats writes to reassure MacGreevy that the N.G. job for which he is competing against Bodkin may be a full time position, in which case MacGreevy may get the job; however, the Board does in some respects favor Bodkin; WB Yeats will write on MacGreevy's behalf.
Keywords Politics and Government
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 14 April 1927
Abstract MacGreevy has recently been visited by Lennox, Dolly, and Hester and hopes the Yeatses can visit as well. He is slightly bored in Paris and cannot find anyone interesting to talk to. He does however get to go to musical performances and has been asked by Eliot to write a book on Diaghaleff ballets, which he might do for the money. He will soon do a lecture at the Sorbonne about Irish theater. He asks if he should mention The Resurrection with the other plays by WB. He himself has been having trouble finishing his own Noh play. He is sending Cocteau's Orphee for Yeats, which he considers 'not good art' but with 'an odd personal quality.' He closes by asking for all the news of Dublin that he couldn't get from Lennox and recounts who among their acquaintance he has recently seen.
Keywords Dance, Literature, Music, Film, Social Life, Career and Finances
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas McGreevey. 19 May 1927
Abstract Yeats beings by telling Macgreevy news of Dolly's work at C & C and reporting on the London production of "The Constant Nymph," but the note ends abruptly. Enclosed is a letter from W.B. Yeats that is marked "Copy. Absolutely Confidential" and includes Yeats's summary of why MacGreevy lost the job of Director to the National Gallery to Thomas Bodkin. A poem beginning "Formal virile masculine Rimbaud" is also enclosed.
Keywords Social Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 17 June 1927
Abstract MacGreevy begins with some more specific information about Cocteau's Orphee saying that it was meant for The Dublin Drama League. MacGreevy is working at writing a few things including the Valery translation, the Vertumnus ballet which will be performed in October, and he may be working on a ballet with George Antheil soon. In mid-July he will be traveling through Italy and Paris for two weeks with 4 Americans for the Lunn's Travel Agency, mostly because he needs the money. If he can publish the Valery translation he feels he will be financially secure through Christmas.
Keywords Travel, Literature, Career and Finances
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 9 December 1927
Abstract MacGreevy has heard from others that Yeats is in Cannes and that WB is unwell and offers to come and visit at Christmas if it would help. He has 'innumerable pupils' and has recently had to have some dental work done. He spends a lot of time with 'Anglicists' [??] and is writing little, although he anticipates publishing them with Hogarth Press and has finished translating La Chartreuse de Parme. He recommends WB read the 1922 Cres edition. Dolly has begun working in Harry Clarke's glass works, leading MacGreevy to wonder about 'the stained glass spinsters of Dublin.' MacGreevy thinks [artistic education ?] she would be better off in Paris.
Keywords Domestic Life, Career and Finances, Social Life, Travel
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 7 February 1928
Abstract MacGreevy references a letter that he recently wrote to WB, saying that it was difficult for him to write since he knew WB had a high opinion of Wyndham Lewis's recent works which MacGreevy thought derivative and 'sado-masochistic misogyny.' He goes on to recommend the Foyot Hotel, and hopes that she will be able to stay longer than 2 days in Paris so that they may go to the symphony, opera, or theater. MacGreevy has been rediscovering Moliere at the theater recently and finds that he now understand modern French better than classical as a result of his theater-going. He mistkenly believes that Lennox bought some perfume for Meriel Moore and is interested to see what she is like. He asks for Yeats's opinion of her. In postscript, he corrects his earlier sentiment to say that he could write more to WB if he had something from him to go on.
Keywords Social Life, Literature
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 15 March 1928:
Abstract Yeats has been unable to write until now as she deals with a sick husband and child (WB Yeats has been ill with congestion of the lungs since the previous November, and Michael Yeats was sent to the Swiss school l'Alpe Fluerie in Villars-sur-Bex to improve his health). She writes 'had I known that all this might happen I should certainly never have had a family!' As a result the Yeats's have taken a flat in Rapallo, Italy to spend the winter in a warmer climate. Yeats describes the flat and seems pleased with it, although she would not like to live there all year. Meanwhile, WB is pleased to be getting out of responsibilities. Yeats is not sure if Michael will be well enough to stay in Switzerland when they return to Dublin in the spring. She proposes that if her travel plans work out as she intends, that she and MacGreevy meet for lunch in Paris in April. She closes by apologizing for writing so much about her husband and son, but hopes that MacGreevy will be understanding about it.
Keywords Travel, Domestic Life, Literature
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 14 May 1928
Abstract George Yeats writes that she has received MacGreevy's manuscript copy of his translation of Paul Valery's Introduction to the method of Leonardo da Vinci but she has not had time to read it due to the Yeats's family moving to Rapallo, Italy.
Keywords Domestic Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 17 May 1928
Abstract MacGreevy asks for feedback from WB and Mrs. Yeats concerning his translation of Valery's work. He has received a poor review from Sturge Moore and would like to counteract it with a kind review from WB. He also urges Mrs. Yeats to contact Valery and encourage him to accept the American translation "with good grace."
Keywords Literature, Social Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 4 June [1928]
Abstract Yeats discusses the London production of Sean O'Casey's latest play and invites MacGreevy to see the ballet while he's in Paris next. She discusses her current success at publishing a poem in Dial. and her failure at publishing in The Dublin Review.
Keywords Career and Finances, Theatre, Literature
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 8 June [1928]
Abstract George Yeats tells MacGreevy not to be upset with Lennox Robinson for asking for a sample from his translation of White Headed Boy. She also mentions that she and W.B. Yeats have been reading his translation of some of Paul Valery's work and, with the suggestion of small revisions, enjoying it.
Keywords Career and Finances, Domestic Life, Travel, Literature
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 21 November [1928]
Abstract Yeats writes that she has "mysteriously" received 135 francs from MacGreevy. She's not sure why and asks. She reports that W.B. is not well but is writing much. She is busy typing and correcting his work.
Keywords Career and Finances, Domestic Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 13 January 1929
Abstract MacGreevy thanks Yeats for his recent visit to the Yeats home in Rapallo. As a result of the visit and his current, disappointing teaching situation (in which he reports attendance at his lectures is diminishing), he declares he would rather be a starving poet. He asks Yeats to give some money to Caterina to whom he owes 20 lire after his recent visit. He encloses a quatrain that WB wrote for James and Ellen Duncan and a translation MacGreevy has done into French of Yeats's poem "Sailing to Byzantium."
Keywords Travel, Domestic Life, Literature, Career and Finances
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 11 February 1929
Abstract George Yeats writes that MacGreevy's translation of W.B. Yeat's work (unnamed) is superior to translations done by Peyron and Leprevost. She also apologizes for being "vague" during MacGreevy's most recent visit to Rapallo, Italy.
Keywords Social Life, Literature
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. Probably July 1929
Abstract MacGreevy writes that he is lonely since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett are out of the town for the summer. He tells Yeats of his endeavor to get his translatation Kathleen ni Houlihan which he is also planning to offer to the Theatre Francais before the arrival of the Irish minister.
Keywords Career and Finances, Social Life, Domestic Life
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 28 July [1929]
Abstract George Yeats tells MacGreevy that W.B. Yeats's plays Cathleen ni Houlihan is already booked to be translated by other translators and that Deirdre is provisionally booked although the translation will be subject to vetting.
Keywords Social Life, Domestic Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 21 August 1929
Abstract MacGreevy discusses his work on translations for W.B. Yeat's plays Deirdre, Cathleen ni Houlihan, and White Headed Boy. He calls W.B. Yeats "the best dramatist in the history of that bloody theatre" and suggests that Lennox Robinson and Lady Gregory should create a tribute to Yeats in the national theater.
Keywords Literature, Domestic Life
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 5 November 1931
Abstract George Yeats informs MacGreevy that she met Dussane recenly in Dublin and that MacGreevy's recent comments about Lennox Robinson behaving poorly are false. In addition, she berates him for not writing to Dolly Robinson with whom he has had a falling out.
Keywords Domestic Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 11 December 1931
Abstract MacGreevy discusses the difficulties he's having translating W.B. Yeats' s White Headed Boy and his attempt to work on his own book. He includes his thoughts on his present relationship wtih Dolly Robinson with whom he is not speaking but about whom he has fond feelings .
Keywords Domestic Life, Social Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 11 January 1935
Abstract MacGreevy begins the letter wishing W.B. Yeats good health during his stay in Spain and then informs George Yeats that a Jean Lucrat painting he obtained for the Dublin Modern Gallery has been under attack. He concludes with a short discussion of the play "The Player Queen."
Keywords Domestic Life, Career and Finances, Art
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. [31 August 1948]
Abstract Yeats writes about arrangements being made for the passage of WB's body to Ireland. Yeats is apprehensive that WB's brother Jack will be upset about who knows the plans for the body's travel. She desires that MacGreevy take an active role in making further arrangements.
Keywords Domestic Life
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. [15 September 1952]
Abstract George Yeats expresses her admiration for Thomas MacGreevy's contribution to the 1952 edition of The Capuchin Annual. The article, "Ulieachan Dubh O," describes a bus tour of Connemara and the Burren. Yeats acknowledges MacGreevy's doubts about his ability to write the article, and makes the claim that his description of the bus tour will endure.
Keywords Career and Finances
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 17 August 1959
Abstract George Yeats discusses her disatisfaction with the title of W. B. Yeats' Mythologies. Yeats says she has read the typescript of MacGreevy's Nicholas Poussin twice, and asks him if she can keep the typescript longer. She regrets that the Cuala Press is no longer publishing books. She closes the letter by making suggestions for small changes in MacGreevy's language.
Keywords Literature, LiteratureCareer and Finances
Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 11 May [1960]
Abstract Yeats looks forward to seeing MacGreevy at the Shelbourne on the weekend. She thanks MacGreevy for "being kind" about a portrait of WB done by John Butler Yeats that will be given to Horatio Henry Lovat Dickson at Macmillan.
Keywords Social Life
Letter from Thomas MacGreevy to George Yeats. 18 July 1964
Abstract MacGreevy writes to George after the death of her brother Harold Hyde-Lees, recalling a meeting they had in 1948. Nostalgically, he recalls things that George and her mother Mrs. Tucker said to him some fifty years earlier. Empathizes with George's loneliness, and recalls his own family situation. He recalls Jack Yeats definition of The Beautiful. He closes by writing that he now has leisure time [since his retirement from the National Gallery] and reminds George that he is free any time she wishes to meet.
Keywords Domestic Life, Social Life
