[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford082","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jan 25th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford82","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Edwardian, Artillery Mansions","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford082","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford082.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H.P.M.\n\nreceived 25\n26th January,'74\nreplied 25 Jan\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yr letter - hope yr cold has passed as quickly\nas hoped for.\n\nI had lunch yesterday with Cis Amaral,a very pleasant woman -\nthis was a kind of thank-you for getting me a cheque,though I'm still\nnot paid up to date. She wd like to meet you and so would her assist-\nant,an agreeable young man - Gareth xxxxxxxx Marshallsea (2 L's in\nhis name,one I've never seen before - xxxxxxxxx as indeed Amaral).\nI took it on myself to invite both of them to lunch in our joint\nnames. Wednesday sometime,I suggested. What do you think ? They both\nstrike me as reliable people:the young fellow asked me if I wd like\ncopies,for instance,and immediately got what I asked for and suggested\nI shd leave my other stuff with  them and collect it all later. It was\nall waiting for me when I went back to the office. None of the\nGerard Werson cleverness but good old-fashioned common sense. We went\nto a pub across the road which is pleasantly Edwardian though not\ngood value. There's an Italian restaurant just beside the entrance\nto Artillery Mansions and I suggest we try it as a foursome.\n\nRead with pleasure yr notice of Eobt Armstrong's book (I\nreviewed it for Valerie). Have paused to reread it  it: means yr review not\nArmstrong's bloody book!\nHeaven knows,talent is rare, as poet or critic,but a man can at least\nget the bloody titles and dates right! Suggest that Armstrong shd write a\nnew book called \"Freedom from Talent and How It May Be Achieved \".\n(As for the Roy Campbell episode,his account is a load of--------)\n\nNow for Foxing. I very much appreciate yr comments and detailed\ntextual emendations. I've acted on most of these. Thank Peggie for\nher suggestion of an active verb. The verb has been activated.\nFox is a great man for activity. I enclose new versions. There are 21\npieces now,though I have cheated: one is a Haiku and xxxxxxx\npiece consists of random notes. Now I must look at them as a series\nand do a wee bit of polishing,perhaps. Then look for what John Atkins\nused to call a 'rubbisher'.\n\nThat's all the noo.\n\nLove to you both - Robert\n","Type":"Text"}}]