[{"node":{"title":"Boyd020","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1958 May 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd020","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Karenina, County Down","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd020","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/Boyd020_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff21 May, 1958.\n\nMy dear Frank:\n\nIt was good to hear from you. I have not answered before this\nbecause I wanted to meet Miss McColl and also to read her work. I\nhave now done both. She is a middle aged woman who comes from Co.\nLouth and has been living in Belfast for the last ten years or so\nwith her sister. She is a complete natural and doesn't know Orahm\nGreene exists. I have read the \"Cut the Cards\" story and will have\nit broadcast, and I have asked her to bring in for me some manu-\nscripts. I agree with you that there is beautiful feeling in her\nwork when it comes out pure. Thank God she isn't widely read: but\nshe tells me that Anna Karenina is her favourite novel, that Trollope\nis the gre test English novelist, and that Frank O'Connor is the\ngreatest living short story writer. She has heard F. O'C broadcast\nfrom Belfast and has also read four of his best stories in, I think,\nsome newspaper or other. And she has no doubt about him. She also\ntells me that you have said that I am the best critic in the British\nIsles - or is it in County Down, I am not sure which. Anyhow we are\nall happy. I am seeing her again next week and shall report to you\nin due course. Ah me, she asked about the mood story but I changed\nthe subject. I will do my best with her.\n\nYour other news is good. Congratulations to you both on the\nbaby. Good news too that you are coming home in September. I shall\nsee my legal adviser, Mr. McFadden, and guarantee you safe conduct to\nand from Belfast. What about a broadcast in the Fall?\n\nI enjoyed The Mirror very much indeed and should have told you\nthat before this. However, if you are not the world's worse corres-\npondent you do qualify for the second prize.\n\nI am going over to London for a visit and shall see Bill and Erna\nWe shall drink your health.\n\nEver\n\n(John Boyd)\n\nTalks Froducer, N.I.Region\nFrank O'Connor Esq.,\n160 Columbia Heights,\nBrooklyn, I, N.Y.\nJB/FJ\n","Type":"Text"}}]