<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1974 Jul 21st LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford143 Letter The Irish Times, Patrick Kavanagh English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford143 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford143.jpg LHL Archive 36 H P M 21 July 74 My dear Derek, Many thanks yrs. You have confirmed my own feelings about Peter Fallon - he gets a mention in a ''gossip col" in today's IRISH TIMES as publisher of 2 Patrick Kavanagh Award winners - date of entry (for at least 20 poems) is in Sept. I may possibly xxxx enter. Yes,we must fix an after- noon to go through the poems. Fine. I've had a bloody week x due to mistakes made by others,notably THE TIMES - 4 phone calls, a long visit,promise to get the advt in next Monday. An hour ago I had a phone call from someone who said it appeared yesterday!- in the Sits. Vac. col. It begins "Professional gentleman require roon..." I ask you! Muddle at Herta's hotel. Letter from Roy saying he'd been in London,posted in good time,and received days after his arrival - and he hadn't my phone number. Taxis to try to keep appointments. Bloody! Anyway,I did see Roy yesterday and we had a good chat - his wife and 2 or 3 kids are here too. Hope to see him tomorrow, though perhaps briefly. He leaves Monday. The bombs haven't changed him,but he tells me that his income has for third award They had lost text and cheque. gone down by 50% in the last xx 4 years. With 5 children it must have been a real blow,but he seems to accept it philosophically. Text