[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford116","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 1st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford116","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Roy McFadden, Peggie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford116","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford116.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\n1st June, 1974 replied:4 June\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks yrs of last Wednes. and yr kind\nwords re \"Two Poets,Two Wars\". We'll see whether\nHIB agrees with you.\n\nEnc a letter and new poem frcm the indefat-\nigable , indomitable Roy. Won\u2019t attempt to explain\nsome of the allusions. He says \"your friend\nJohn Gibson\" - Gibson was his friend,I never\nmet the fellow. You see that by now you have\nbeen incorporated into the McF-G mythology.\nRoy\u2019s a mythologist,a blender of fact and\nfiction. If there were an Exam in his world of\nmystification and imagination,one question\nmight be:\n\nWhy does R.McF. sometimes refer,in letters\nto R.G.,to Mrs. Peggie Stanford as \"Mrs.\nJolly\u201d ?\n\nIf you don\u2019t know the answer, I'll tell you.\n\nWhat do you think of \"Bring Back the Clowns\" ?\n\nShan!t attempt to deal with what you say\nre N.I situation. I agree with some of it though\nperhaps not all. Fortunately,unlike Leslie G,you\ndon\u2019t fly off the handle unless there is 100 %\ninstant agreement! Briefly,2 new factors in\nthe last few years:1. growth of Protestant\nUlster nationalism Cnow recognised by Rees) and\n2. assertion of power by working-class who\nhitherto were led by aristos,country gentry\n","Type":"Text"}}]