<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1974 Nov 5th LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford181 Letter Robert Harbinson English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford181 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford181.jpg LHL Archive 2 7 P C 5th Nov 74 My dear Derek, Many thanks for your very helpful letter. I took your point right away : that this poem is not consonant with the others. There is too much of me in it and not enough of Fox (the simplistic think that I am Fox,but you know I'm not and indeed am attracted to characteristics in him precisely because I haven't them). I'll think your points over carefully. The final arbiter will of course be Peter Fallon in whose judgment I have a good deal of faith. I am very glad you made these criticisms. But of course the poem is not intended to be integral to the body of the sequence. Might be better to scrap it. We'll see. Robt Harbinson (Roy's "Harpingsong" - he wrote "Song of Erne") writes infatig- ably,entertainingly and as egotistically as he knows how. Quote:"When you go to stay with Derek Stanford again,be sure to let me know so that you can come over here for a meal.... As a bribe (not,I hope,as a deterrent!) I can assure you that I still make homemade wine - 'it sounds good Text