Letter from George Yeats to Thomas MacGreevy. 15 and 16 May 1924

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Ipsden House. Ipsden. Oxon
May 15 — Friday — 1924 —

Dear Tom

You dont deserve a letter & probably dont want 'em) Imagine not sending even one postcard to themIpsden House was H.V.Reade's country home where after a few days in London George Yeats spent time recovering from a bad cold^note as arent foreign travelling!MacGreevy was in Spain, his ticket paid for by Lennox Robinson^note — And the PoundsGeorge Yeats's close friend Dorothy Shakespear Pound and her husband Ezra were planning to move permanently to Italy^note are in Assisi and Beatrice in Palestine and Harold in Florence — & JonahProbably D H Lawrence, who in 1924 was given the Kiowa Ranch in Taos by the New York socialite Mabel Dodge Luhan^note in Yucatan! – – – – –

You must be having lovely weather as even here it is sunny & warm.

Have read "The Black Soul" by Liam O'FlahertieLiam O'Flaherty was involved with the Stewarts in the short-lived To-Morrow, a magazine encouraged by WB Yeats; his second novel The Black Soul, based on his birthplace in Aran, was published in 1924 by Jonathan Cape^note It doesnt much excite me — perhaps I am not interested in the setting, having my mind filled with a different form at the moment — but I do feel it is good & real achievement.

I did nothing in London but see people & buy clothes and go to Theatres and a frivolous flippant visit to the Academy mostly enlivened by a badly behaved companion & an immense feather in my hat which tickled the nose of every fat dowager!! – – –

Saturday

2 postcards just forwarded — Thanks & apologies. Terrific sun [p.1 verso] today. Another day or 2 of it will quite bake my cough away.

Glad you are finding it all "jammy".

No, one cant write letters sitting under a lime tree full of bees — it reminds me of "die schöne tage von Aranjuez sin' nun zu ende" only it was Rome & the Borghese gardens'the beautiful days from Aranjuez that now have ended' (Schiller);George Yeats had several happy holidays in Italy before her marriage^note

Yours sincerely

Georgie Yeats