[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford042","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jun 15th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford42","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Pre-Raphaelite, Aberdeen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford042","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford042.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffa gathering of artists/musicians/intellectuals,none of whom I\nhad previously met - but for Trevor Royle. Now up to that point I\nhad no idea how many candidates for Aberdeen had been interviewed.\nWithout letting any pussy cats out of the bag Royle told me there\nhad been nine,some of whom had come from London. Hanley said at\nthe interview there had been an American applicant but they didn\u2019t\nthink they cd afford to pay his expenses from xxxx Michigan,if he\nwere asked for interview! Royle said the standard had been very\nhigh,adding diplomatically that he wished they had nine jobs going!\nRoyle and I had a very long chat ,and he put me in the picture about\nthe Arts Council up there re literature.\n\nWell,it was wonderful that R.N. had got another Bursary...and\nthat the celebration shd have been on June 13th ...\n\nI note what you tell me about the quote from my TEACHER review\nwhich is appearing on the paperback edn of yr WRITING IN THE 30.' s.\nAlso that you have corrected the proofs of PRE-RAPHAELITE WRITING\nfor Univ Everyman. B and B wrote to me recently asking if I wd.give\npermission for a long quote from my review of Drabble's THE NEEDLE'S\nEYE xxxxx which something called Contemporary Criticism wanted to\nreprint in an annual vol. No payment, but I said yes. B and B\nsaid it was worthwhile having the credits.\n\nDid I tell you I had a very warm letter from Maurice Lindsay\nre Aberdeen,saying to by all means use his name if it would help\netc. (I shd have said earlier that Royle said they didn\u2019t much go on\ncommendation no matter who it came from,so they probably haven't\nwritten to you or R.N.)\n\nSorry that so much space has been taken up with my news about\nScotland... Just in: the latest B and B. in which 3 wise (?) men\nare well-pepresented,these being D.S.,R.N. and R.G.,and in which\nD.S. justly praises R.N., and in which R.N. and R.G. both review\nDavid Garnett.\n\nFinally - YES,next Wednes 12.50 at Gaiety wd be fine.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n\nCalled at \"Scotsman\" offices + had a chat with Willis Pickard, friendly as ever.n \n","Type":"Text"}}]