Collected Poems, Louis MacNeice. Ed. by Peter McDonald. Faber and Faber. 30.00 [pounds sterling]
In December 1940, after a month crashing with W.H. Auden et al. at 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn Heights, Louis MacNeice sailed to England. Among his own belongings, he also brought back Auden's overcoat. It cost him 4 [pounds sterling] in customs duty, a respectable weekly wage at the time. He docked in Liverpool with nothing to declare except "Wystan's wolf-collar coat."
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