[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford182","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford182","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"I.T.V, Faber and Faber, Home-brewing, Breakdown","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford182","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford182.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2\n\nstuff' Mr. Justice Swanwick remarked when\nCharles Monteith was explaining in the\nHigh Court that after lunch with me he still\nhad a hangover two days later... I have\nactually appeared on ITV complete with\nairlocks and syphons though my greatest\ncompliment was when.....I have a large\ncellar maturing quietly away,I have not\nseriously been drunk since a Faber party\nten years ago when Peter Crawley,the Sales\nDirector,had to call an ambulance to take\nme to University College x Hospital. Not that\n\nI wish to inflict such inebriation on you\nwhen you call... A large part of the\nattraction xxxxxxxxx for me in home-\nbrewing besides the all-important economics:\nare the countryside roamings collecting the\ningredients.\" On fiction-writing:\"... the\ngreat xxxxxxxx technical problem is not\nto invent characters or situations but how\nthe devil to deal with and finally dispose\nof them.\" How to make money as a writer:\n\n\"...if you were to succeed to some obscure\nIrish earldom and cause xx a scandal with\nlittle girl x (or little boys even better)\nthe fees would rocket well ahead of current\ninflation rates,as witness Montagu and\nLambton inter alia.\" I must say these\nletters of his would make entertaining\nreading so full are they of quips,and\ngymnastic leaps from one subject to another,\nThe Faber confrontation must have been due\nto a breakdown,an unconscious desire to\ndestroy the reputation he had built up\nwith such effort. I can't believe it was\nrationally motivated.\n\nYour and Don Roberto's letters have\ncheered me up. I slept badly because of\n","Type":"Text"}}]