[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford043","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Jun 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford43","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Scotsman, Fiction","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford043","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford043.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\nSat., 16th June, 73\nreplied : 18 June\nMy dear Derek,\nYou may have seen the SCOTSMAN today. If so, you will have seen that the job has gone to Archie Hind, the Glasgow novelist. Good luck to the boy! He certainly has a good record of published work. In case you haven\u2019t seen the report ,I quote: \u201cThe selection panel who assessed the 18 candidates for the Aberdeen post were most impressed with their enthusiasm and commitment to the new concept,and already the Council have plans to introduce similar jobs to other areas in Scotland.\u201d\nRead yr fiction review with interest, though I haven\u2019t read any of the books you deal with. I like the way you are quoted as saying: \u201cAngus Wilson wrote brilliant shorter faction\u201d,especially since later you have a sentence that begins: \u201cGive all the facts about a man or woman\u201d. The Scots, and even the Ulster Scots, are great faction fellows, hence our pedantry\u2026\nI enclose a wee cutting from the same  \n","Type":"Text"}}]