[{"node":{"title":"Boyd010","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1953 May 28th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd010","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Esperenza, Goldblatt","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd010","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd010_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28th May, 1953.\n\nDear St.John,\n\nThank you very much for sending me Esperanza. What\nhappened was I asked Goldblatt to let me read it, and he\npromptly did so, asking me to return it to him in a day\nor so. The result was I read it very quickly and returned\nit to him; but I am very glad you sent it to me because\nI have now been able to read it carefully.\n\nI find it very exciting indeed: the people springing\nat once into life, and the whole atmosphere and action most\nconvincing. It would, i think, play extraordinarily well,\nfor it is full of dramatic movement and sound philosphical\nreflection. The characters are certainly interesting in\nthemselves - the Oscotts; Agatha Chope; that lovely girl\nAnnie Appleyard; and Rennie; and the delightful Stevens,\nthe steward; and the Rev. Macdonald. All excellent.\n\nThe only characters I didn't wholly believe in were\nCrawley and Tripp: to my mind both are overdrawn; your\nanti-communism has got the better of you. Haven't you done\nthe equivalent of the 'bloated capitalist' nonsense perpe-\ntrated by C.P. writers?\n\nI'm grateful to you for letting me read it: and it has\nso much life in it that it is bound to be produced, sooner\nor later. If it isn't it'll be disgraceful! I'd love to\nbe at the first night.\n\nYou remember I mentioned to you that I would like to\ndramatise Mrs. Martin's Man. Since you left I have been\nengaged in doing it, and find that the book falls\nnaturally into three acts. I have made a first draft of it\nand find that the novel was dramatically constructed, and the\ncharacters are a very diversified lot, with Martha of course\ncoming out the strongest.\n\nIf you approve of my proceeding with this I would, of\ncourse, show you the first draft when I get it typed. If\nyou disapprove, I know you will say so at once.\n\nI have already mentioned to Goldblatt that I was engaged\n\nin this and he says the Group would like to do it.\n","Type":"Text"}}]