[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford041","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jun 15th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford41","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arethusa, Bursary","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford041","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford041.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\n15. 6. 73\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs - it was waiting for me when I returned\nlast night.\n\nI very much appreciate what R.N. said in his letter to you\nabout my application for the Aberdeen job. But I'll get round to\nR.N. later in this letter.\n\nThe interview went splendidly as did everything in connect-\nion with the trip. The xxxxxxxx chairman,Clifford Hanley x,\ncouldn't have been more at-ease-putting. He directed proceedings\nwholly. It lasted for just under half an hour. The official who\n. had written to me and ushered me to and fro was called Trevor\nRoyle, a very charming man of about 30 whom I was to met later in\nthe xxxxxx evening - you will see how in a moment or two.\n\nNow Arethusa. She was waiting for me at Waverley - the train\nwas rather late due to engine failure but I still had time to get\nto the Hotel (where I stayed 1 night) before the interview. She\nhas revealed much more common sense than I supposed she had - she\nwould have rung the Arts Council to say I'd be late if that had\nbeen necessary... I had wondered if she would think of that. Any-\nway, she has improved enormously ever since she went to Kingston\nwhere she gets on well with everyone. I think the improvement is\nmore psychological than due to diet,though the latter may also be\na factor. The work is very hard but she is sticking it. In short,\nwe now get on excellently after quite a long period of consider-\nable difficulty.\n\nNow R.N.-Arethusa and I met xx my old pal Donald Grant for\ndrinks. Donald had to go off: xxxxxx he's just his old self but\nfar more fit thanks to his work as a gardener. Then A and I had a\nmeal after which I rang R.N.,not knowing if he was in town/busy or\nwhat-not as I hadn't heard from him. He said immediately:\" I\nhope you aren't hurrying away.\" The upshot was an invitation to\nhis party that evening to celebrate the Bursary award. Arethusa\ncame ,too - she had seen the Nyes at the performance of his\n\"The Seven Deadly Sins\" in Stirling. The party was delightful. What\n","Type":"Text"}}]