<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1974 Jan 25th LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford82 Letter Edwardian, Artillery Mansions English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford082 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford082.jpg LHL Archive 36 H.P.M. received 25 26th January,'74 replied 25 Jan My dear Derek, Many thanks for yr letter - hope yr cold has passed as quickly as hoped for. I had lunch yesterday with Cis Amaral,a very pleasant woman - this was a kind of thank-you for getting me a cheque,though I'm still not paid up to date. She wd like to meet you and so would her assist- ant,an agreeable young man - Gareth xxxxxxxx Marshallsea (2 L's in his name,one I've never seen before - xxxxxxxxx as indeed Amaral). I took it on myself to invite both of them to lunch in our joint names. Wednesday sometime,I suggested. What do you think ? They both strike me as reliable people:the young fellow asked me if I wd like copies,for instance,and immediately got what I asked for and suggested I shd leave my other stuff with them and collect it all later. It was all waiting for me when I went back to the office. None of the Gerard Werson cleverness but good old-fashioned common sense. We went to a pub across the road which is pleasantly Edwardian though not good value. There's an Italian restaurant just beside the entrance to Artillery Mansions and I suggest we try it as a foursome. Read with pleasure yr notice of Eobt Armstrong's book (I reviewed it for Valerie). Have paused to reread it it: means yr review not Armstrong's bloody book! Heaven knows,talent is rare, as poet or critic,but a man can at least get the bloody titles and dates right! Suggest that Armstrong shd write a new book called "Freedom from Talent and How It May Be Achieved ". (As for the Roy Campbell episode,his account is a load of--------) Now for Foxing. I very much appreciate yr comments and detailed textual emendations. I've acted on most of these. Thank Peggie for her suggestion of an active verb. The verb has been activated. Fox is a great man for activity. I enclose new versions. There are 21 pieces now,though I have cheated: one is a Haiku and xxxxxxx piece consists of random notes. Now I must look at them as a series and do a wee bit of polishing,perhaps. Then look for what John Atkins used to call a 'rubbisher'. That's all the noo. Love to you both - Robert Text