[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford063","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1973 Oct 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford63","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Tribune, County Cork","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford063","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford063.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 H P M\n\n17 Oct 73\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for the letter\n\nAs for the TRIB it is only what you deserve. I think you\nhave done a splendid job with \"P-R W\" , and am really delighted xx\nthat you should have done me the honour you have. Capt. Fox has\nexamined the book and pronounced it O.K. and if he thinks so,well.\n\nNow I'm working on a long piece for B and B - it will run\nto 1,300 or l,400 words - early on I make it clear the book is\ndedicated to me. Frank said nothing about length! By the way,I'm\nincorporating that tip you gave me in yr letter.\n\nAs you say,we have certainly had a long friendship during\nwhich each of us has helped the other - and long may it last.\nBefore the old man shouts x\"Come on,Bob,you\u2019re next!\" I\u2019d like to\nwrite a long essay on your work. America might he more welcoming\nfor such an effort than here. Let me have reactions some time.\n\nMy \u201cwee child\" will be heading again for Edinburgh on Friday after\na few weeks with her mum in Co.Cork. She writes that P has taken\nup \"Transcendental Meditation\" and so has she. Meditaters of the\nworld unite,you have nothing to lose but your tensions.She says:\n\"The first few days I felt a bit hostile and resentful towards\nMummy but that has worn off. I find it relaxing and feel I\u2019d like\nto he more creative.\" If she only tried,what a splendid satirical\nnovel Arethusa could write about her parents!... Anyway,we shall\nsee what xxx we shall see. I once asked her:\"Have you ever felt\nyou'd like to write?\" and she answered \"No!\"\n\nYes,12.30 on U.N.Day (24th) at Gaiety wd be fine. See you.\n\nLove to both - Robert\n\nP.S.\nDo you remember my telling you about Belfast friends who left for\nCanada last Christmas, arrived back disillusioned in Sept. and\n","Type":"Text"}}]