[{"node":{"title":"Boyd025","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1960 Sep 30th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd025","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Belfast, Donegal, West End","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd025","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/Boyd025_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff30th September 1960.\n\nDear St. John,\n\nIt is with great fear and trepidation that I write to you,\nbut if I haven't written I certainly thought of you and wondered\nhow you\u2019re keeping. I hope well. Last week C.K. Munro paid\na surprise visit to Belfast and we had a long chat so your ears\nshould have been red.\n\nHe had with him a Mrs. Wade whom I think was an actress\nsome 20 or 30 years ago. Her husband has edited Yates's letters\nand I think was engaged in editing Wilde's letters when he died.\nSo I expect you know him.   C.K. was in great form despite the\nfact that he has recently broken a femur. He seemed to get\ngreat enjoyment going round Belfast and the coast of Co. Down and\nseeing all the changes - not all for the better I fear.\n\nI am in good form myself, though during the summer I broke\nfour ribs. You will laugh when you hear how. Playing Baseball\nwith American monks in Donegal. I know you will immediately\nexclaim: \"Served the bugger right!\"\n\nThe theatre here is in a bad way: the Group, as you probably\nknow, still goes on, but in a very feeble way.  Goldblatt and Co.,\nhave left it, of course, and James Young a local commedian is in\ncharge, and farces are a staple diet. The other theatre, the Arts,\ndo the latest West End plays. Unfortunately they select the\nsillier ones - or the sexier ones. Curious how this still\npuritanical community relish French or even English sex.\n\nI haven't seen Joe for some weeks. He's not well, poor man,\nand I expect will never become quite his old self again.\n\nDid you read a good autobiography by an Ulsterman, Robert\nHarbinson - \"No Surrender\" is the title. It's all about his\nchildhood in the Bog Meadows, but I suppose the Bog Meadows was\nas far away from the Newtownards Road as Siberia!\n\nP.T.O.\n","Type":"Text"}}]