[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford106","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Apr 17th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford106","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"W.B. Yeats, Ian Paisley, Michael Longley","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford106","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford106.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3 6 H P M\n\n17 Apr 74\nreplied: 21 Apl.\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks for yrs of Good Friday.\n\nYes, \u201cthe other hand\u201d was W.B.Y.; It\u2019s\n\u201cThe O\u2019Rahilly\u201d frcm \u201cLast Poems\u201c, p.354 in\nCOLLECTED POEMS. I\u2019ve got the 1958 edn that\nbelonged to Clifford D. - sometimes with\ninteresting notes by C.D.\n\nInteresting news about Jack B - \u201cwhere\nthe swift Bermudas ride\u201c - I quote from\nmemory. Also about Whittington-Egan and yr\nLatvian ex-student.\n\nLast night I met Freddy V and his new\nlady friend,an Ulster Protestant, xxxxx,at\nL.G.'s. Freddy has put on an appalling xxxxxxx\namount of weight. When he was out of the room\nshe told us he was drinking very heavily when\nshe met him - still is,but she has tried to cut\nit a bit. She\u2019s a typical Prod of the less\neducated sort - thinks Paisley is a great man\nand forthright in opinions. F could do a lot xxx\nworse. They\u2019re off to Cornwall where F\u2019s xxxxxxx\nancestors hail from. The case cost him \u00a32,000,\naccording to his friend - and he\u2019s been at his\nold game of spending money like water. A\nstrange character.\n\nThe Minister of Edn in N.I. has not\nreplied to my onslaught but there was a reply\nyesterday by Michael Longley stating the facts.\nI\u2019ve forced some information out into daylight\n- there's a bursary pool of \u00a35,000 p.a. for\n","Type":"Text"}}]