[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford183","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford183","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Sons and Lovers, The Irish Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford183","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford183.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff3\n\ntoothache. Not normally troubled by this\naffliction I've had quite a bit of trouble\nin the past 2 months as a result of various\nfillings. Hitherto the dentist I go to,a\nvery nice New Zealander, has been\nsplendid. I don't blame him in the\nslightest - I think like all ageing things\nthe teeth are the worse for wear. Anyway,\nback again to him this a.m. though the\npain has subsided.\n\nDespite some pain last night I\nploughed on in SONS AND LOVERS which I'm\nrereading for my Ealing boys and girls -\none is nearly 70! Again and again I found\ntears coming into my eyes. What a man!\nAnd how,unlike Yeats, sad that he went on\nto write those later diffuse novels not\nquite grounded in reality. Yet at the same\ntime what a xxxx heroic struggle - a man\ndying yet travelling,writing and quarreling\nwith intensity. The marital situation in\nSONS AND LOVERS in some respects xx was\nis\nlike that of my parents. Makes it easy to\nidentify. And I love the sparse - and all\nthe more effective - use of dialect,almost\nall of which is understandable in the\ncontext.\n\nLast Sat's IRISH TIMES had 2 letters\ndealing with mine of Oct.26 (which I\nshowed you). Ewart Milne's didn't say very\nmuch and his reference to me was polite:\n","Type":"Text"}}]