[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford054","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Aug 16th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford54","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Collected Poems, Spain","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford054","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford054.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n16th August, \u201873\nreplied 24 Aug\nMy dear Derek,\nMany thanks for your letter and news. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever heard of Ivor Gurney \u2013 he must have published earlier volumes if now he has a vol of COLLECTED POEMS. These geniuses (?) one manages to \u2018miss out\u2019 on, as our American friends say. I have been able to review Shaun Herron\u2019s book both for TLS and BBN. As you say, he is a brave man to have said what he has. I know nothing about him, apart from having seen good reviews of his previous novel, also about Belfast. He\u2019s pretty obviously a Catholic Irishman.\nSurprise that there isn\u2019t a standard critical biog of W.H.Hudson. Perhaps there is, but another book may revive interest. Yr friend doesn\u2019t sound awfully professional, judging from what you say. Anyway, good luck to him. If it is published, I\u2019ll try to get it somewhere, though natural science is not my \u2013 shall I say \u2013 field or even hedgerow. (I give myself high marks, however, for spotting a host/multitude of sunflowers when I was in Spain. YOU and Peggie get \n","Type":"Text"}}]