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PRIME MINISTER NORTHERN IRELAND STORMONT CASTLE, BELFAST, 4. 14th October, 1963.

Dear George, The Prime Minister has asked me to thank you for your letter of the 12th October about the Memorial Service for Louis MacNeice, the distinguished Ulster-born poet and writer who died on the 3rd September. He is grateful to you for letting him know the position and has arranged for Sir Francis Evans, G.B.E., K.C.M.G., D.L., to represent the Government of Northern Ireland at the Service on the 17th October in Langham Place Church, London. With regards, Yours sincerely, Cecil J. Bateman

Captain G. G. MacCann, 23 Botanic Avenue, BELFAST, 7.