<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1974 Jul 17th LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford140 Letter Herta, Teachers English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford140 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford140.jpg LHL Archive 3 6 HP M 17th July, 1974 My dear Derek, Thanks yrs 16th. Glad to have yr confirmation of time and place of meeting next Wednesday. xxxxxx So whoever gets there first can bag a table. I like yr witty reference to "the fair (though brunette) Herta". To my eye she doesn't look immediately "German" the way some people do. There was a German girl in my class last term whom I greeted with the words: “Are you German ?“ A very pretty one,too,with a nice personality, I may say! (And I can tell you I have sampled xxxxxxx unpleasant Teutonic womanhood] The good ones are splendid, and the others fiendish.) xxxx I am happy to tell you that Herta and I have gradually but seemingly inevitably deepened our relationship. For her,the attraction to me was immediate; but at our first meeting we didn't talk xxxxx together for more than 5 minutes. But long enough for her to get my address. Then when she came in January I couldn't clearly visualise her. You see ,when I gave her my address,I thought perhaps she would send me a Christmas card or something like that,and she had just been one of a group of teachers-- and not one who had gained my attention by comments or questions. But as the Yanks say - that's the way the cookie crumbles. Text