[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford125","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford125","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Captain Fox","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford125","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford125.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff One of the Captain's Friends\n\n14th June '74\n\nI met him at Fox's party at the Savoy,\nA velvety young man from Leatherhead,\nStamped indubitably as Produce of the Home Counties:\nHound's tooth jacket, fair moustache and wispy beard,\nPleasant in manner, essentially boring,\n\nI saw the name three months later -\nThe xxxxxx newspaper headline had caught my eye:\nNUDE GIRL DANCING AMONG COFFINS.\nSt. John Wilson, claiming to be a High Priest,\nHad organised a ritual in a family vault.\nDisturbing the dead who lay in Gothic splendour.\n\nThe jury examined the photographs\nFound by the bobbies at the high priests home.\nThese, taken in the vault, showed the nude dancer,\nA dececrated coffin,a headless corpse,a skull.\nAnd of entering catacombs in consecrated grounds.\nA witness spoke darkly of inverted xxxxxxxx triangles.\n\nThe name of Wilson's game,the prosecutor said, was xxxxxxxxx necromancy:\n\"The pretend art of revealing the future\nBy means of communication with the dead,\"\n\nThe Captain,you will agree,has some odd friends.\n\n36 etc. 15.6.74\n\nMy dear Derek\n\nMany thanks for yrs of yesterday. Yes,how right you are:Roy's\nlatest is in a new class. I've already said as much in a reply.And\nthe title,as you put it so well,is \"all-ways-apt\" - e.g. Belfast is\nor was the centre of the linen industry. And then a doggerel writer\nlikes Simmons ignores him completely.\n\nCheque from B and B and apparently books are on the way. Glad\nthe lunch went well and that an extract from yr Oscar Wilde will\nappear in July.\n\nNo doubt you have had my p.c. re Fox. Peter Fallon is enthus-\niastic but not about all of them. He would rather have a very small\ncollection of the very best,even as few as 15. I asked him if he\n\ndisliked my non-Fox poems. No,he said,but he didn't think Fox and\n","Type":"Text"}}]