[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford126","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jun 14th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford126","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Arts Council, The Irish Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford126","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford126.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffnon-Fox could be mixes. He's a very serious, bearded, somewhat\nunsmiling young man,very knowledgeable about poetry - he asked me\nto show him my books and read some of my old poems - various of\nwhich he commented on favourably. He had tried to get hold of my\nbooks in Dublin but could find little in the T.C.D. Library which\nis supposed to have,like the B.M.,every book published in Br Isles.\nI'm very glad he has turned out to be the quiet studious type and\nnot one of the glib charmers. As for booze,he said no,but did accept\na cup of black coffee. Typical Irishman,what ? He and I are both\nwriting to Longley to see if we can get a grant for the Fox. He\nhas had a grant from the (Dublin) Arts Council and hopes to get\nanother towards general expenses. The N.I. people might do something\nsince I am an Ulsterman and they gave me a Bursary. I may say that\nthere is a very good relationship over there between North and\nSouth culturally,and very few poets are committed to any one \"ism\"\nor Party. So if Longley turns down our request I don't think it will\nbe on political grounds.\n\nThis latest Fox poem is based on a newspaper report you\nmay possibly have seen. I've changed the name and the accused man\ndidn't come from Leatherhead. I chose Leatherhead because I saw the\nother day that the actor ,Macliammoir,said the most unresponsive\naudience he ever played to was in Leatherhead.'\n\nNow,something else:the matter of dedication. Are you willing\nto have the Fox volume dedicated to you ? At one time I had thought\nof asking you to share it with Robt Nye,but I think your encourage-\nment has been much greater than his; and you xx were in on it from\nthe time when the Captain was only a private joke; and you have also\nhelped with detailed criticism. Yes,I think this is your book -\nif you are willing to agree,that is.\n\nAm enclosing today's IRISH TIMES book page,a sort of a Terence\nde Vere White number,isn't it ?\n\nThat's a' the noo -\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text"}}]