<> Boyd Letters Boyd Estate 19 Jan Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF Boyd142 Letter Royal Literary Fund, Bill Naughton English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd142 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd142_1.jpg LHL Archive BBC etc. date. make it better To The Committee, Royal Literary Fund. Gentlemen, I have been asked by Mr Bill Naughton to write to you and state what I think regarding a proposal that he should receive help to carry on from the Royal Literary Fund. I will say at once that Mr Naughton is is'a xxsxxxxxxxx very good friend of mine. I have known him for eight years, and I stay with him when I‘m in London. You xxxxxxxxxwill have seen his published work, but his latest novel, "The Second Age", I consider to be the finest novel of working class life ever written etc. Since xxxxxxxxxxx will be of advantage to you to know some facts of his financial positions,! feel I must say outright that duri ng the last year I have twice lent him sums of £25. In a way it has been an honour to do so, for I believe his work to be of singular importance. I think he xxxxxxmight easily have had help before ge tting himself in such straits, for as one eminnent critic said: "He will be the Dickens of our day".And I think it would be a sadlIoss to your literature if such a writer couldn't carry on. John Boyd, M.A.xxxDr Litt Talks Producer B.F. Text