[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford143","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 21st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford143","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, Patrick Kavanagh","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford143","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford143.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36 H P M\n\n21 July 74\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs.\n\nYou have confirmed my own feelings about\nPeter Fallon - he gets a mention in a ''gossip\ncol\" in today's IRISH TIMES as publisher of 2\nPatrick Kavanagh Award winners - date of entry\n(for at least 20 poems) is in Sept. I may\n\npossibly xxxx enter. Yes,we must fix an after-\nnoon to go through the poems. Fine.\n\nI've had a bloody week x due to mistakes made\nby others,notably THE TIMES - 4 phone calls,\na long visit,promise to get the advt in next\nMonday. An hour ago I had a phone call from\nsomeone who said it appeared yesterday!- in the\nSits. Vac. col. It begins \"Professional\ngentleman require roon...\" I ask you! Muddle\nat Herta's hotel. Letter from Roy saying he'd\nbeen in London,posted in good time,and received\ndays after his arrival - and he hadn't my phone\nnumber. Taxis to try to keep appointments. Bloody!\n\nAnyway,I did see Roy yesterday and we had\na good chat - his wife and 2 or 3 kids are here\ntoo. Hope to see him tomorrow, though perhaps\nbriefly. He leaves Monday. The bombs haven't\nchanged him,but he tells me that his income has\n\nfor third award\nThey had lost text and cheque.\ngone down by 50% in the last xx 4 years. With\n5 children it must have been a real blow,but he\nseems to accept it philosophically.\n","Type":"Text"}}]