[{"node":{"title":"Boyd111","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd111","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"McLaverty","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd111","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/Boyd111_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffme a copy of your 'Selected Stories' and\ninscribed it\nI'm still not sure whether you were writing ironical;\nbut i'll give you the benefit of the doubt. We\nwere both teachers but whether good ones or not I\ndon't know. I think I was a reasonably good teacher\nfor a couple of years, that is, until staleness set in\nand I began to hate the imposed xxxxxx syllabus\nEnglish was badly taught in those days; but things are better\nnow that worthy living writers like yourself and Michael McLaverty\nare included in the syllabuses.\n","Type":"Text"}}]