[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford101","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Mar 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford101","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Gollancz, Gallery Press, Honest Ulsterman","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford101","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford101.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n\n36 H P M\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs 30/3.\n\nGlad you liked the Cecil Salkeld piece. He\nwas a remarkable man but,as you see,fulfilled\nonly some of his potential. Journalists always\nget it wrong. The title of the chapter from\nwhich the extract was taken is \u201cA Season in\nDublin\"; not the title of the book which xx\nremains\n\"The Sash My Father Wore\". As it happens I've\ntaken on morning teaching at a school round the\ncorner - Davies,Laing and Dick,the tutors -\nas otherwise I can't xxxx cope with the cost\nof living and the xxxxxx falling off of review\nbooks. My life-long problem: can I afford to be\na writer ? can I afford to drain my xxxx energy\nin teaching which is not really my vocation\nthough I enjoy it in small doses ? But one just\ncan't depend on reviewing because of the way the\nwork fluctuates. I hope you have not been hit by\nthe decline in the output of new titles. I think\nwhat wd solve my problem, for 1 year anyway,wd be\none of these x writer in residence jobs. But\nunless I can get a creative book (i.e. poems)\npublished,I haven\u2019t much chance.\n\nNo news from Gollancz,but Peter Fallon\nof Gallery Press has written to ask me to let\nhim have a complete set of Fox mss. Which I\u2019ve\ndone. I think it depends on whether he likes\nthem enough plus his availability of capital.\nI've had that poem about George Best in the\nlatest H.U. though a copy hasn't yet arrived.\nRoy apparently joins me there - the first time\nfor him. Until now,he's always been prejudiced\n","Type":"Text"}}]