[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford189","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 23rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford189","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, Poetry","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford189","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford189.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2 7 P. C.\n\n23rd November,'74\nreplied:2nd Dec\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks letter (22nd) and cutting.\n\nIt\u2019s always rather pleasant to see\nsomething one wrote a long time ago popping\nup in print - I say this in reference to yr\nrecent appearance in I.T.\n\nI\u2019ve sent Harbinson a somewhat tongue-in-\ncheek paen but I wouldn't care to commit xxxxx\nmyself to praise in public. It doesn\u2019t seem to\nme to xxx be either poetry or prose and it isn\u2019t\ndramatic. Like many good writers of descriptive\nprose (which he is at his best) he is a poet\nmanque. I can see that he had a very hard time\nas child and boy,and I\u2019m sorry about that. We\nmust xxx descend on him some time to sample\nhis home-made wine which I expect is pretty good,\njudging by his efforts as a cook (these I\u2019ve\nsampled).\n\nWhat you say about Gascoyne is interesting.\nDo you think that he will write again ? Seems\nto me to be a forgotten man - I've been surprised\nthat one or two reasonably informed people had\nhardly heard of him. Such a pity to see so much\ntalent wasted. That one talent etc.,\n\nPeter Fallon and I are weary of waiting for\na decision from the Longley mob up on the North-\nern ranch. Pistol-packin\u2019 Pete has been in touch\nwith the Southern ranchers. It would be a kick up\n","Type":"Text"}}]