<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1974 Jun 1st LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford116 Letter Roy McFadden, Peggie English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford116 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford116.jpg LHL Archive 36 H P M 1st June, 1974 replied:4 June My dear Derek, Thanks yrs of last Wednes. and yr kind words re "Two Poets,Two Wars". We'll see whether HIB agrees with you. Enc a letter and new poem frcm the indefat- igable , indomitable Roy. Won’t attempt to explain some of the allusions. He says "your friend John Gibson" - Gibson was his friend,I never met the fellow. You see that by now you have been incorporated into the McF-G mythology. Roy’s a mythologist,a blender of fact and fiction. If there were an Exam in his world of mystification and imagination,one question might be: Why does R.McF. sometimes refer,in letters to R.G.,to Mrs. Peggie Stanford as "Mrs. Jolly” ? If you don’t know the answer, I'll tell you. What do you think of "Bring Back the Clowns" ? Shan!t attempt to deal with what you say re N.I situation. I agree with some of it though perhaps not all. Fortunately,unlike Leslie G,you don’t fly off the handle unless there is 100 % instant agreement! Briefly,2 new factors in the last few years:1. growth of Protestant Ulster nationalism Cnow recognised by Rees) and 2. assertion of power by working-class who hitherto were led by aristos,country gentry Text