[{"node":{"title":"Boyd142","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd142","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Royal Literary Fund, Bill Naughton","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd142","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/Boyd142_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffBBC etc.\ndate.\nmake it better \n\nTo\nThe Committee,\nRoyal Literary Fund.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI have been asked by Mr Bill Naughton\nto write to you and state what I think\nregarding a proposal that he should receive\nhelp to carry on from the Royal Literary Fund.\n\nI will say at once that Mr Naughton is\nis'a xxsxxxxxxxx very good friend of mine. I\nhave known him for eight years, and I stay with\nhim when I\u2018m in London. You xxxxxxxxxwill have\nseen his published work, but his latest novel,\n\"The Second Age\", I consider to be the finest\nnovel of working class life ever written etc.\n\nSince xxxxxxxxxxx will be of advantage\nto you to know some facts of his financial\npositions,! feel I must say outright that duri\nng the last year I have twice lent him sums\nof \u00a325. In a way it has been an honour to do\nso, for I believe his work to be of singular\nimportance. I think he xxxxxxmight easily have\nhad help before ge tting himself in such\nstraits, for as one eminnent critic said: \"He\nwill be the Dickens of our day\".And I think\nit would be a sadlIoss to your literature if\nsuch a writer couldn't carry on.\n\nJohn Boyd, M.A.xxxDr Litt\nTalks Producer B.F.\n","Type":"Text"}}]