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MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1948 January 15

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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Autogrpahed letter signed, 4 pages. Dublin.Describes Christmas holiday in Kerry, sympathizes with Avram Yarmolinsky's feeling about Christmas.

Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1948 January 18

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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Autographed postcard, 1 page. Brooklyn, NY. Will send Deutsch a copy of Profile when she is well.

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1948 February 22

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Description Autographed letter signed, 8 pages. Dublin. Regrets that Irish poetry must now conform to “British Council” standards. He has sent her a Dante article, one of “dozens” of essays which would make “succesful books” had he a publisher. MacGreevy's only poem published in an Irish newspaper, the Irish Statesman, was Godh Ruadh, given to A.E. (George William Russell) after Mrs. W.B. [Yeats] had read it to him. Beckett will be home soon; MacGreevy cannot understand an Irish Protestant's writing in...

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1948 April 1

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Description Typed letter signed, 2 pages. Dublin. Chides her for calling him Mr. McGreevy [sic], explains Dublin use of first names. Waits for Paradiso note in Deutsch poetry, as he had told James Joyce he waited in Joyce's work. Goethe, Valery had it. Notes that W.B. Yeats used other writers “as grist for his own mill” but “would be at pains never to misrepresent them.” His knowledge of Irish would have been from hearing it spoken by Lady Gregory. Mentions Denis Devlin. Hopes she is wrong in calling...