[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford009","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1972 Nov 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford9","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Nobel Prize, Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford009","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford009.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffthirty-six H P M\n\n4    Nov 1972\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for letter and card.\n\nI am glad to have your approval of my reply to J.C. I refuse to\nadmire even a xxxx Nobel prizeman's non-existent clothes (why the\nhell didn't I think of saying that in the reply ? L'esprit a'escalier\nI seem to be offending authors and publishers right and left these\ndays. You prob saw that my enemy of earlier this year,Auberon W,\nand PRIVATE EYE have to pay damages and costs to Nora Beloff. I wish\nI could snare him into libelling me.\n\nRe the Mass of Christ. I quite understand your difficulty. I have\ndilly-dallied and 'swithered' as usual about plans,though partly\nbecause other people haven't replied to letters. On the whole, think\nI won't go to Belfast and will go to Scotland in New Year. If\nSeaford is possible,fine. If not,I can spend Christmas with the\nGillespies - the only penalty being to endure Leslie on politics\nand literature!!\n\nCONGRATULATIONS on the St. James cheque. I see that Good Boys\nget served first. Bad Boys who cry \"I MUST have seme pudding J\"go\nto the end of the queue. A True Story of Good Derek and Bad Robert\nand How One Was Rewarded and the Other Punished.\n\nYes,indeed the Gaiety at about 12.50 on xxxx Wed.-Nov.15 would\nbe fine. Perhaps whoever is first would go inside and grab a table.\nBut I realise you will have to confirm this meeting.\n\nGlad you like the new envs \"with their violet innards\".\n\nFinally,Capt. Fox rides again.-. in the current issue of\nHIBERNIA which prints \"The Death of Capt. Fox\" - the one about how\nhe was knocked down by a Peugeot in Zurich. But YOU know what\nHIBERNIA readers don't - it was his double who was killed... So\nthat makes 2 in print and a 3rd to come in the HONEST ULSTERMAN.\n\nI enclose a nice poem by Roy which is in the same issue - there's\na double-spread of Autumn Poetry,about 15 poems mainly by the\nyounger lads. I am probably the eldest ,followed by Roy (he's a\nyear younger than me).\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text"}}]