<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1974 Apr 9th LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford103 Letter Gallery Press, Faber and Faber, The Irish Times, The Irish Press English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford103 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford103.jpg LHL Archive  36 H P M 9th April,'74 My dear Derek, Thanks for yrs of 5th. Gallery Press address is 19 Oakdown Road, Dublin, 14. I expect P.F. will be glad to send the Mangan. Still haven’t had a B and B book this year. Rather ironical,since Cis has always seemed so very friendly. Do you think that our fussing about payment may have had an effect ? An order from the powers-that-be to go easy on DS and RG?(unintentional rhyme here!) One doesn’t expect such sloppy printing from Faber’s. It’s symptomatic of the general decline in standards: mis-spellings and wrong usages even in The Times these days. Couldn’t-care-less- ism. On an Underground poster: "Fuck of” - not that one can expect much from Tube writers. But some years ago they might have managed to get it right. Enclosing copy of letter in today's IRISH TIMES which will,I think,be self-explanatory. I’ve been seeing my old schoolmaster Ronnie Marshall (the man who had the bad accident). The Minister was also a pupil of his (at same school x but not in my year) but Ronnie's enthusiastic about what I say. Mclvor is a successful barrist- er and Ronnie tells me he would look askance at a £150 briefing. I wanted to be clear that I wasn’t attacking the Arts Council itself Or its officials. The other paper,IRISH PRESS,has accepted Text