Letter from Ernie O'Malley to Thomas MacGreevy. 31 January 1940

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Original Source
Letter from Ernie O'Malley to Thomas MacGreevy 31 January 1940 Ernie O'Malley Trinity College, Dublin. Autograph letter signed. TCD MS 8117/5

Abstract
Problems in writing due to a hand injury; wonders how MacGreevy is faring in London; evenings spent with Jack Yeats; asked Seamus O'Sullivan if a bibliography on Yeats's book illustrations could be published in the Dublin Magazine; reading Balzac; comments on his themes of love and revenge; lists artists recently featured in a Dublin exhibition; writes of the recent work and exhibitions of Norah McGuinness, Jack Yeats, Mainie Jellett, Nano Reid; stopped his translation of Rilke; worries about the escalating World War.

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