[{"node":{"title":"Boyd109","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd109","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Friendship","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd109","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/Boyd109_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffSept 1988\n\nDear Brian,\nI xxx think you'll be surprised\nbut I hope you won't mind to get a public\nletter from me, After all our long friendship has\nbeen xxxxxx largely epistolatary, for\nxxx geographical reasons I suppose, but\nalso xxx owing to my distaste for travel.\nAnyway that we don't meet more often xxxxxx\npersonally is my fault, not yours: xxx but\ncuriously enough I've recently come to the conclusion\nthat close friends - as you and I are xxxxxxx\n- should measure out their meetings because that way\nensures that friendship never goes stale. How's\nthat for special pleading on ratiocination on my part?\n\nFriendship is important to you, as it is to me, and\nnow that you've reached sixty I've calculated that we\nhave enjoyed at least thirty years of it. Extraordinary,\nisn't it, how quickly it has passed and\n","Type":"Text"}}]